Funerals & Burial

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

This hadith has been narrated by Ibn 'Urwa with the same chain of transmitters. The hadith narrated by Abu Usama is more complete.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

The dead is punished because of the lamentation of the living. Upon this 'A'isha said: May Allah have mercy upon the father of 'Abd al-Rahman (Ibn 'Umar). He did not tell a lie, but he forgot or made a mistake....

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: He who is lamented upon would be punished because of the lamentation for him on the Day of judgment.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

A hadith like this has been narrated by Mughira b. Shu'ba from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

This hadith has been narrated from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) through another chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Among my people there are four characteristics belonging to pre-Islamic period which they do not abandon: boasting of high rank, reviling other peoples' genealogies, seeking rain by stars, and walling. And he (further) said: If the wailing woman does not...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

I was looking (at him) through the crevice of the door. A man came to him and mentioned that Ja'far's women were lamenting. He (the Holy Prophet) commanded him to go and forbid them (to do so). So he went...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

" You did not spare the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) the botheration."

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) took a promise from us along with the oath of Allegiance that we would not lament. But only five among us fulfilled the promise (and they are) Umm Sulaim, and Umm al-'Ala', and the daughter...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Umm 'Atiyya reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) took pledge from us (including this promise) that we would not lament. Only five amongst us fulfilled the promise, and one of them (who fulfilled the promise) was Umm Sulaim.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

When this verse was revealed:" When believing women came to thee giving thee a pledge that they will not associate aught with Allah, and will not disobey thee in good" (lx. 12), she (Umm Atiyya) said: In (this pledge) was...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

We were forbidden to follow the bier, but it was not made absolute on us.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

We were refrained from following the bier, but it was not made absolute on us.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) came to us when we were bathing his daughter, and he told us: Wash her with water and (with the leaves of) the lote tree, three or five times, or more than that if you...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

We braided her hair in three plaits.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

One of the daughters of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) died. And in the hadith transmitted by Ibn 'Ulayya (the words are): The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to us and we were washing his daughter. And in the hadith...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

" three times, five times, seven times, or more than that, if you deem fit:" Hafsa (further) said on the authority of Umm 'Atiyya: We braided (the hair) of her head in three plaits.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

We washed her an odd number of times, i. e. three, five or seven times; and Umm 'Atiyya (further) said: We braided her hair in three plaits.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

When Zainab the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) died, he said to us: Wash her odd number of times, i. e. three or five times, and put camphor or something-like camphor at the fifth time, and after you...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

There came to us the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as we were washing one of his daughters. So he said: Wash her (dead body) an odd number of times, five times or more than that, the rest of the hadith...