Funerals & Burial

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

This hadith has been narrated by Husain with the same chain of transmitters, but no mention is made of Umm Ka'b.

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

I was a young boy during the time of the Prophet (ﷺ) and I retained in my mind (what I learnt from him), and nothing restrained me from speaking except the fact that there were persons far more advanced in...

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

It is reported on the authority of Jabir ibn Samura that an unsaddled horse was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he rode on it when he returned after having offered the funeral prayer of Ibn Dahdah and we walked...

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

then an unsaddled horse was brought to him and a person hobbled it, and he (the Messenger of Allah) rode upon it and it bounded and we followed it and ran after it. One of the people said that the...

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

" Make a niche for me in the side of the grave and set up bricks over me as was done in case of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ).

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Ibn 'Abbas said that a piece of red stuff was put in the grave of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ).

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

When we were with Fadala b. 'Ubaid in the country of the Romans at a place (known as) Rudis, a friend of ours died. Fadala b. 'Ubaid ordered to prepare a grave for him and then it was levelled; and...

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Should I not send you on the same mission as Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent me? Do not leave an image without obliterating it, or a high grave without levelling It. This hadith has been reported by Habib with the same...

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade that the graves should be plastered or they be used as sitting places (for the people), or a building should be built over them.

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

A hadith like this has been transmitted on the authority of Jabir b. 'Abdullah.

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Jabir said that he was forbidden to plaster graves.

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

It is better that one of you should sit on live coals which would burn his clothing and come in contact with his skin than that he should sit on a grave.

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

A hadith like this has been narrated by Suhail with the same chain of transmitters.

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Do not sit on the graves and do not pray facing towards them.

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Do not pray facing towards the graves, and do not sit on them.

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

How soon the people have forgotten that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) offered not the funeral prayer of Suhail b al-Baida' but in a mosque.

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

How hastily the people criticise that about which they know little. They criticise us for carrying the bier in the mosque. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) offered not the funeral prayer of Suhail b. Baida' but in the innermost part...

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Bring it (the bier) into the mosque so that I offer prayer for him. But, this act of hers was disapproved. She said: By Allah, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) offered prayer in the mosque for the two sons of...

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Peace be upon you, abode of a people who are believers. What you were promised would come to you tomorrow, you receiving it after some delay; and God willing we shall join you. O Allah, grant forgiveness to the inhabitants...

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The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Should I not narrate to you (a hadith of the Holy Prophet) on my authority and on the authority of my mother? We thought that he meant the mother who had given him birth. He (Muhammad b. Qais) then reported...