Funerals & Burial

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

'Abd Allah b.'Umar dont you hear what Abu Hurairah says ? He heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If anyone goes out of his house, accompanies bier and prays over it.... He then mentioned the rest of the tradition...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: If any Muslim dies and forty men associate nothing with Allah stand over his bier. Allah will accept them as intercessors for him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (said) said: A bier should not be followed by a loud voice (of wailing) or fire. Abu Dawud said: Harun (one of the narrators) added: "And it should not be preceded (with those) either."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: When you see a funeral, stand up for it till it leaves you behind or it is placed (on the ground).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When you follow a funeral, do not sit until the bier is placed (on the ground). Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by al-Thawri (i.e. Sufyan) from Suhail, from his father...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) when a funeral passed hi and he stood up for it. When we went to carry it, we found that it was a funeral of a Jew. We, therefore said: Messenger of Allah, this...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) stood up for a funeral (to show respect) and thereafter he sat down.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to stand up for a funeral until the corpse was placed in the grave. A learned Jew (once) passed him and said: This is how we do. The Prophet (ﷺ) sat down and said:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

An animal was brought to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) while he was going with a funeral. He refused to ride on it. When the funeral was away, the animal was brought to him and he rode on it. He...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) offered funeral prayer over Ibn al-Dahdah while we were present. He was then brought a horse, and it was tied until he rode it. It then began to gallop and we were running around it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr and Umar walking before the funeral.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

(I think that the people of Ziyad informed me that he reported on the authority of the Prophet (ﷺ): A rider should go behind the bier, and those on foot should walk behind it, in front of it, on its...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: Walk quickly with a funeral, for if the dead person was good it is a good condition to which you are sending him on, but it he was otherwise it is an evil of which...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

We were walking slowly. AbuBakrah then joined us and he raised his flog at us and said: You have seen us when we were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). We were walking quickly.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

We attended the funeral of AbdurRahman ibn Samurah and he said: He (AbuBakrah) made his mule run quickly and pointed with the flog.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

We asked the Prophet (ﷺ) about walking with the funeral. He replied: Not running (but walking quickly). If he (the dead person) was good, send him to it quickly; if he was otherwise, keep away the people of Hell. The...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

A man fell ill and a cry was raised (for his death). So his neighbour came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said to him: He has died. He asked: Who told you? He said: I have seen him....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did not pray over Ma'iz ibn Malik, and he did not prohibit to pray over him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

Ibrahim, the son of the Prophet (ﷺ), died when he was eighteen months old. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did not pray over him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

When Ibrahim, the son of the Prophet (ﷺ) died, he prayed over him at the place where he used to sit. Abu Dawud said: I recited to Sa'id b. Ya'qub al-Taliqani saying: Ibn al-Mubarak transmitted to you from Ya'qub b....