Funerals & Burial

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

We buried a deceased person in the company of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). When we had finished, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) returned and we also returned with him. When he approached his door, he stopped, and we saw...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) came upon a woman who was weeping for her child. He said to her: Fear Allah and have patience. She said: What have you to do with my calamity ? She was then told that he was...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

A daughter of Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent him message while I and Sa'd were with him and I think Ubayy was also there: My son or daughter (the narrator is doubtful) is dying, so come to us. He sent...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: A child was born to me at night and I named him Ibrahim after his. He then narrated the rest of the tradition. Anas said: I saw it at the point of the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited us to wail.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed the wailing woman and the woman who listens to her.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: The dead is punished because of his family's weeping for him. When this was mentioned to 'Aishah, she said: Ibn 'Umar forgot and made a mistake. The Prophet (ﷺ) passed by grave and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

I entered upon AbuMusa while he was at the point of death. His wife began to weep or was going to weep. AbuMusa said to her: Did you not hear what the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said? She said: Yes....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

One of the oaths which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) received from us about the virtue was that we would not disobey him in it (virtue): that we would not scratch the face, nor wail, nor tear the front of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Prepare food for the family of Ja'far for there came upon them an incident which has engaged them.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

A man had a shot of arrow in his chest or throat (the narrator is doubtful). So he died. He was shrouded in his clothes as he was. The narrator said: We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded to remove weapons and skins from the martyrs of Uhud, and that they should be buried with their blood and clothes.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The martyrs of Uhud were not washed, and they were buried with their blood. No prayer was offered over them.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) passed Hamzah who was killed and disfigured. He said: If Safiyyah were not grieved, I would have left him until the birds and beasts of prey would have eaten him, and he would have been...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) passed by Hamzah who was disfigured (after being killed). He did not offer prayer over any martyr except him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) combined two persons from among the martyrs of Uhud (in one garment), and said: Which of the two has learnt the Qur'an more ? When one of them was pointed to him, he advanced him...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

He combined two persons from among the martyrs of Uhud in one garment.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not unveil your thigh, and do not look at the thigh of the living and the dead.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

By Allah, we did not know whether we should take off the clothes of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as we took off the clothes of our dead, or wash him while his clothes were on him. When they (the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came in when his daughter died, and he said: Wash her with water and lotus leaves three or five times or more than that if you think fit, and put camphor, or some camphor in...