Funerals & Burial

Sahih Muslim

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.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

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

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Jabir said that he was forbidden to plaster graves.

Sahih Muslim

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.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

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

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

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

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

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

Sahih Muslim

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.

Sahih Muslim

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...

Sahih Muslim

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...

Sahih Muslim

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...

Sahih Muslim

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...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

" Peace be upon the inhabitants of the city (i. e. graveyard)." In the hadith transmitted by Zuhair (the words are):" Peace be upon you, the inhabitants of the city, among the believers, and Muslims, and God willing we shall...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

I sought permission to beg forgiveness for my mother, but He did not grant it to me. I sought permission from Him to visit her grave, and He granted it (permission) to me.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) visited the grave of his mother and he wept, and moved others around him to tears, and said: I sought permission from my Lord to beg forgiveness for her but it was not granted to...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

I forbade you to visit graves, but you may now visit them; I forbade you to eat the flesh of sacrificial animals after three days, but you way now keep it as along as you feel inclined; and I forbade...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

This hadith has been narrated through another chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Prayer - Funerals

(The dead body) of a person who had killed himself with a broad-headed arrow was brought before the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), but he did not offer prayers for him.