Funerals & Burial

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

A negress (or a youth) used to sweep the mosque. The Prophet (ﷺ) missed him, and when he asked about him the people told him that he had died. He said: Why have you not informed me ? He said:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave the people news of death of Negus on the day on which he died, took them out to the place of prayer, drew them up in rows and said: "Allah is Most Great" four...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

On the authority of his father: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded us to proceed to the land of Negus. Mentioning the rest of the tradition he said that Negus said: I bear witness that he is the Messenger of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

When Uthman ibn Maz'un died, he was brought out on his bier and buried. The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered a man to bring him a stone, but he was unable to carry it. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) got up and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Breaking a dead man's bone is like breaking it when he is alive.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The niche in the side of the grave is for us and the excavation in the middle is for others.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

Ali, Fadl and Usamah ibn Zayd washed the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and they put him in his grave. Marhab or Ibn AbuMarhab told me that they also made AbdurRahman ibn Awf join them. When Ali became free, he said:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

That 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Awf alighted in the grave of the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: I still seem to see the four of them.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

Al-Harith left his will that Abdullah ibn Yazid should offer his funeral prayer; so he prayed over him. He then put him in the grave from the side of his legs and said: This is a Sunnah (model practice of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

We went out with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to the funeral of a man of the Ansar, but when we reached the grave, the niche in the side had not yet been made, so the Prophet (ﷺ) sat down...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

When the Prophet (ﷺ) placed the dead in the grave, he said: In the name of Allah, and following the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). This is Muslim's version.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

I said to the Prophet (ﷺ): Your old and astray uncle has died. He said: Go and bury your father, and then do not do anything until you come to me. So I went, buried him and came to him....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Ansar came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) on the day of Uhud and said: We have been afflicted with wound and fatigue. What do you command us? He said: Dig graves, make them wide, bury two or three...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

"And deepen (the graves)."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

This tradition has also been transmitted by Sa'd b. Hisham b. 'Amir with a different chain of narrators.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

'Ali said to me: I am sending you on the same mission as the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent me that I should not leave a high grave without leveling it and an image without obliterating it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

We were with Fudalah b. 'Ubaid at Rudis in the land of Rome. One of our Companions dies, Fudalah commanded us to dig his grave; it was (dug and) levelled. He then said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

I said to Aisha! Mother, show me the grave of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and his two Companions (Allah be pleased with them). She showed me three graves which were neither high nor low, but were spread with soft...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

Whenever the Prophet (ﷺ) became free from burying the dead, he used to stay at him (i.e. his grave) and say: Seek forgiveness for your brother, and beg steadfastness for him, for he will be questioned now. Abu Dawud said:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: There is no slaughtering (at the grave) in Islam. 'Abd al-Razzaq said: They used to slaughter cows or sheep at grave.