Funerals & Burial

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

That 'Abd al-Rahman b.'Awf said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: When you hear that it is breaking out in a certain territory, do not go there. If it breaks out in the territory you are in, do...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

That her father said: I had a complaint at Mecca. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to pay a sick-visit to me. He put his hand on my forehead, wiped my chest and belly, and then said: O Allah! heal...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Feed the hungry, visit the sick and free the captive. Sufyan said: al-'ani means captive.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone visits a sick whose time (of death) has not come, and says with him seven times: I ask Allah, the Mighty, the Lord of the mighty Throne, to cure you, Allah will cure him...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When a man comes to visit a sick person, he should say: O Allah, cure Thy servant, who may then wreak havoc on an enemy for your sake, or walk at a funeral for your sake....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: No one of you should wish for death for any calamity that befalls him, but he should say: O Allah! cause me to live so long as my life is better for me...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: No one of you should wish for death. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition in a similar manner.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

A man from the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ), said: The narrator Sa'd ibn Ubaydah narrated sometimes from the Prophet (ﷺ) and sometimes as a statement of Ubayd (ibn Khalid): The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Sudden death is a wrathful catching.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to visit Abdullah ibn Thabit who was ill. He found that he was dominated (by the divine decree). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) called him loudly, but he did not respond. He uttered the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

Banu al-Harith b. 'Amir b. Nawfal bought Khubaib. Khubaib killed al-Harith b. 'Amir on the day of Badr. Khubaib remained with them as a prisoner until they agreed on his killing. He borrowed razor form the daughter of al-Harith to...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say three days before his death: No one of you dies but he had good faith in Allah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

When the time of his death came, he called for new clothes and put on them. He then said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: A deceased will be raised in the clothes in which he died.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): When you attend dying man, you should say good words, for the angels say Amin to what you say. When Abu Salamah died, I said: What should I say, Messenger of Allah? He said: O...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: If anyone's last words are "There is no god but Allah" he will enter Paradise.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Recite to those of you who are dying "There is no god but Allah."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered upon Abu Salamah, his eyes were fixedly open. So he closed them. The members of his family cried. He said: Do not pray for yourself anything but good, for the angels utter Amin...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When one of you is afflicted with a calamity, he should say: "We belong to Allah, and to Him we do return." O Allah, I expect reward from Thee from this affliction, so...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) was covered with striped Yemen garment (after his death).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Recite Surah Ya-Sin over your dying men. This is the version of Ibn al-Ala'

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

When Zaid b. Harithah, Ja'far and 'Abd Allah b. Rawahah were killed, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat down in the mosque and grief was visible in his face. Then he (the narrator) mentioned the rest of the tradition.