The Book of Prayer - Funerals

Sahih Muslim

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

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

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

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

Sahih Muslim

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

Sahih Muslim

" Make a niche for me in the side of the grave and set up bricks over me as was done in case of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ).

Sahih Muslim

Ibn 'Abbas said that a piece of red stuff was put in the grave of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ).

Sahih Muslim

When we were with Fadala b. 'Ubaid in the country of the Romans at a place (known as) Rudis, a friend of ours died. Fadala b. 'Ubaid ordered to prepare a grave for him and then it was levelled; and...

Sahih Muslim

Should I not send you on the same mission as Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent me? Do not leave an image without obliterating it, or a high grave without levelling It. This hadith has been reported by Habib with the same...

Sahih Muslim

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.