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Jami' at-TirmidhiBook 10

The Book on Jana''iz (Funerals)Page 2

كتاب الجنائز عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

115 hadith in this book; 115 translated into English.

Chapter 30Chapter: What Has Been Related About Haste For The Funeral (Procession)

Chapter 31Chapter: What Has Been Related About Those Killed At Uhud, and Mention of Hamzah

Differing grades No. 1016

"The Messenger of Allah came to Hamza on the Day of Uhud, he stood over him and saw that he had been mutilated. He said: Had it not been that Safiyyah would be distressed, then I would have left him to be eaten by the beasts until he was gathered on the Day of Judgment from their stomachs." He…

"‏ لَوْلاَ أَنْ تَجِدَ صَفِيَّةُ فِي نَفْسِهَا لَتَرَكْتُهُ حَتَّى تَأْكُلَهُ الْعَافِيَةُ حَتَّى يُحْشَرَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مِنْ بُطُونِهَا ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ ثُمَّ دَعَا بِنَمِرَةٍ فَكَفَّنَهُ فِيهَا فَكَانَتْ إِذَا…

Narrated by Jābir ibn ‘Abdullāh

Chapter 32Chapter: Something Else (Regarding The Sunnah For Visiting The Sick And Attending The Funeral)

Differing grades No. 1017

"The Messenger of Allah would visit the sick, attend the funerals, ride a donkey, accept the invitation of a slave, and on the Day of Banu Quraizah he was on a donkey muzzled with a cord of fibers and a pack-saddle made of fibers."

يَعُودُ الْمَرِيضَ وَيَشْهَدُ الْجَنَازَةَ وَيَرْكَبُ الْحِمَارَ وَيُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ الْعَبْدِ وَكَانَ يَوْمَ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ عَلَى حِمَارٍ مَخْطُومٍ بِحَبْلٍ مِنْ لِيفٍ عَلَيْهِ إِكَافُ لِيفٍ ‏

Narrated by Anas ibn Mālik + 1 other version

Chapter 33Chapter: Where Are The Prophets To Be Buried?

Authentic No. 1018

"When the Messenger of Allah died, they disagreed over where to bury him. So Abu Bakr said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah saying something which I have not forgotten, he said: "Allah does not take (the life of ) a Prophet except at the location in which He wants him to be buried.'" So they buried…

"‏ مَا قَبَضَ اللَّهُ نَبِيًّا إِلاَّ فِي الْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي يُحِبُّ أَنْ يُدْفَنَ فِيهِ ‏"

Narrated by Abu Bakr as-Siddīq + 1 other version

Chapter 34Chapter: Something Else (Regarding The Order To Mention Good Things About The Deceased And To Refrain From Mentioning Their Evil)

Chapter 35Chapter: What Has Been Related About Sitting Before The Deceased Is Placed In The Grave

Differing grades No. 1020

"When the Messenger of Allah follows a corpse, he would not sit until (the deceased was) placed in the Lahd. A rabbi came upon him and said: 'This is what we do, O Muhammad'" He said: "So the Messenger of Allah sat, and he said: 'Differ from them.'"

اتَّبَعَ الْجَنَازَةَ لَمْ يَقْعُدْ حَتَّى تُوضَعَ فِي اللَّحْدِ فَعَرَضَ لَهُ حَبْرٌ فَقَالَ هَكَذَا نَصْنَعُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ ‏.‏ قَالَ فَجَلَسَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَقَالَ ‏"‏ خَالِفُوهُمْ ‏"

Narrated by Ubādah ibn as-Sāmit + 2 other versions

Chapter 36Chapter: The Virtue In The Calamity When One Patiently Seeks A Reward For It

Differing grades No. 1021

"I buried my son Sinan and Abu Talhah Al-Khawlani was sitting on the rim of the grave. When I wanted to leave he took me by my hand and said: 'Shall I not inform you of some good new O Abu Sinan!' I said: 'Of course.' He said: 'Ad-Dahhak bin Abdur-Rahman bin Arzab narrated to me, from Abu Musa…

قَبَضْتُمْ وَلَدَ عَبْدِي ‏.‏ فَيَقُولُونَ نَعَمْ ‏.‏ فَيَقُولُ قَبَضْتُمْ ثَمَرَةَ فُؤَادِهِ ‏.‏ فَيَقُولُونَ نَعَمْ ‏.‏ فَيَقُولُ مَاذَا قَالَ عَبْدِي فَيَقُولُونَ حَمِدَكَ وَاسْتَرْجَعَ ‏.‏ فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ ابْنُوا…

Narrated by Abu Mūsa al-Ash‘ari + 3 other versions

Chapter 37Chapter: What Has Been Related About The Takbir For the Funeral (Prayer)

Authentic No. 1023

"Zaid bin Arqam would say four Takbir for our funerals. (Once) he said five Takbir for a funeral so we asked him about that and he said: 'The Messenger of Allah would say those Takbir.'"

يُكَبِّرُ عَلَى جَنَائِزِنَا أَرْبَعًا وَإِنَّهُ كَبَّرَ عَلَى جَنَازَةٍ خَمْسًا فَسَأَلْنَاهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يُكَبِّرُهَا ‏

Narrated by Zayd ibn Arqam + 6 other versions

Chapter 38Chapter: What Is To Be Said In The Salat For The Deceased

Authentic No. 1024

from his father who said: "When the Messenger of Allah would perform the Salat for the funeral he would said: (Allahammaghfir li-hayyina wa mayyittina, wa shahidina wa gha'ibina, wa saghirina wa kabirina, wa dhakarina wa unthana) 'O Allah! Forgive our living and our deceased, our present and our…

"‏ اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِحَيِّنَا وَمَيِّتِنَا وَشَاهِدِنَا وَغَائِبِنَا وَصَغِيرِنَا وَكَبِيرِنَا وَذَكَرِنَا وَأُنْثَانَا ‏"

Narrated by Abu Qatāda + 8 other versions

Authentic No. 1025

"I heard the Messenger of Allah, while he was performing Salat for a deceased person. I could hear him saying in his prayer: (Allahummagfir lahu, war hamhu, waghsilhu bil-baradi (waghsilhu) kama yughsaluth-thawb) 'O Allah! Forgive him, have mercy upon him, and wash him with (snow or ice) (and wash…

"‏ اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لَهُ وَارْحَمْهُ وَاغْسِلْهُ بِالْبَرَدِ وَاغْسِلْهُ كَمَا يُغْسَلُ الثَّوْبُ ‏"

Narrated by Awf ibn Mālik + 11 other versions

Chapter 39Chapter: What Has Been Related About The Recitation OF Fatihatil-Kitab For The Funeral (Prayer)

Chapter 40Chapter: How To Perform Salat For The Deceased, And Interceding For Him

Authentic No. 1029

The Prophet said: "No one among the Muslim dies, and Salat is performed for him by a community of Muslims reaching one hundred, and they intercede (supplicate) for him, except that their intercession for him is accepted." In his narration, 'Ali bin Hujr said: "One hundred or more than that."

"‏ لاَ يَمُوتُ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَتُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ يَبْلُغُونَ أَنْ يَكُونُوا مِائَةً فَيَشْفَعُوا لَهُ إِلاَّ شُفِّعُوا فِيهِ ‏"

Narrated by Ā’ishah + 5 other versions

Chapter 41Chapter: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked To Pray The Funeral Salat While The Sun Is Rising And While It Is Setting

Authentic No. 1030

"There are three times that the Messenger of Allah prohibited us from performing Salat in, burying our dead in: When the sun's rising appears until it has risen up; when the sun is at the zenith until it passes, and when the sun begins its setting, until it has set."

يَنْهَانَا أَنْ نُصَلِّيَ فِيهِنَّ أَوْ نَقْبُرَ فِيهِنَّ مَوْتَانَا حِينَ تَطْلُعُ الشَّمْسُ بَازِغَةً حَتَّى تَرْتَفِعَ وَحِينَ يَقُومُ قَائِمُ الظَّهِيرَةِ حَتَّى تَمِيلَ وَحِينَ تَضَيَّفُ الشَّمْسُ لِلْغُرُوبِ…

Narrated by Uqbah ibn ‘Āmir + 11 other versions

Chapter 42Chapter: What Has Been Related About Salat For (The Funerals Of) Children

Chapter 43Chapter: What Has Been Related About Not Performing The Salat For The Child Until One Is Sure He Was Alive At Birth

Chapter 44Chapter: What Has Been Related About Salat For The Deceased In The Masjid

Chapter 45Chapter: What Has Been Related About Where The Imam Is To Stand For the Man And For The Women

Differing grades No. 1034

"I prayed for the funeral of a man with Anas bin Malik, so he stood parallel to his head. Then they came with the body of a woman from the Quraish. They said: 'O Abu Hamzah perform the prayer for her.' So he stood parallel to her waist. Al-Ala bin Ziyad said to him: 'Is this how you saw the…

صَلِّ عَلَيْهَا ‏.‏ فَقَامَ حِيَالَ وَسَطِ السَّرِيرِ ‏.‏ فَقَالَ لَهُ الْعَلاَءُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ هَكَذَا رَأَيْتَ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَامَ عَلَى الْجَنَازَةِ مُقَامَكَ مِنْهَا وَمِنَ الرَّجُلِ مُقَامَكَ مِنْهُ

Narrated by Anas ibn Mālik + 2 other versions

Chapter 46Chapter: What Has Been Related About Not Performing The (Funeral) Salat For The Martyr

Authentic No. 1036

Jabir bin Abdullah informed him that the Prophet had put two men together in one cloth from those who were killed at (the battle of) Uhud, then he said: "Which of them memorized the more of the Qur'an?" When one of them was indicated to him, he put him in the Lahd (first) and said: "I am a witness…

"‏ أَيُّهُمَا أَكْثَرُ أَخْذًا لِلْقُرْآنِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ فَإِذَا أُشِيرَ لَهُ إِلَى أَحَدِهِمَا قَدَّمَهُ فِي اللَّحْدِ وَقَالَ ‏"‏ أَنَا شَهِيدٌ عَلَى هَؤُلاَءِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ وَأَمَرَ بِدَفْنِهِمْ فِي…

+ 11 other versions

Chapter 47Chapter: What Has Been Related About (Performing) The (Funeral) Salat At The Grave

Chapter 48Chapter: What Has Been Related About The Prophet Performing Salat For (The Death Of) An-Najashi

Chapter 49Chapter: What Has Been Related About The Virtue Of Salat For A Funeral

Authentic No. 1040

The Messenger of Allah said: "Whoever performs the funeral prayer then he will get a reward equal to a Qirat. Whoever follows it until it is buried then he will get a reward equal to two Qirat, one of them, or the least of them, is similar to Uhud (mountain)." This was mentioned to Ibn Umar, so he…

"‏ مَنْ صَلَّى عَلَى جَنَازَةٍ فَلَهُ قِيرَاطٌ وَمَنْ تَبِعَهَا حَتَّى يُقْضَى دَفْنُهَا فَلَهُ قِيرَاطَانِ أَحَدُهُمَا أَوْ أَصْغَرُهُمَا مِثْلُ أُحُدٍ ‏"

Narrated by Ā’ishah

Chapter 50Chapter: Something Else (About The Extend Of What Is Acceptable (To Fulfill The Obligation) For Following The Funeral And Carrying It)

Chapter 51Chapter: What Has Been Related About Standing For The Funeral (Procession)

Chapter 52Chapter: Regarding Permission To Not Stand For It

Chapter 53Chapter: What has been related about the saying of the Prophet (saws): The Lahd is for us and the Hole is for other than us

Chapter 54Chapter: What Has Been Related About What Is Said When Putting The Deceased In The Grave

Authentic No. 1046

"When he Prophet put the deceased in the grave" He said: And Abu Khalid (one of the narrators) said [one time]: "When he placed the deceased in the Lahd" - "He said one time: 'In the Name of Allah, by His command and upon the Millah of the Messenger of Allah.' and one time he said: 'In the Name of…

"‏ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ وَبِاللَّهِ وَعَلَى مِلَّةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ وَقَالَ مَرَّةً ‏"‏ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ وَبِاللَّهِ وَعَلَى سُنَّةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"

Narrated by Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar

Chapter 55Chapter: What Has Been Related About The One Cloth That Is Placed Under The Deceased In The Grave

Differing grades No. 1047

His father said: "The one who made the Lahd in the grave of the Messenger of Allah was Abu Talhah. And the one who placed the velvet cloth under him was Shuqran a freed slave of Messenger of Allah."

أَلْحَدَ قَبْرَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَبُو طَلْحَةَ وَالَّذِي أَلْقَى الْقَطِيفَةَ تَحْتَهُ شُقْرَانُ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏

Chapter 56Chapter: What Has Been Related About Leveling The Grave

Chapter 57Chapter: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked To Tread On Graves, Sit On Them, (And Pray Towards Them)

Authentic No. 1051

from the Prophet, similar (to no. 1050), but it does not contain "From Abu Idris" and this is what is correct.

حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ، وَأَبُو عَمَّارٍ قَالاَ أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ بُسْرِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الأَسْقَعِ، عَنْ…

Narrated by Abu Marthad al-Ghanawī + 5 other versions

Chapter 58Chapter: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked To Plaster Graves And Write On Them

Chapter 59Chapter: What A Man Is To Say When He Enters A Graveyard

Weak No. 1053

"The Messenger of Allah passed by the graves of Al-Madinah, so he turned his face towards them and said: (As-Salamu alaikum ya ahlul-qubur! Yaghfirul-lahu lana wa lakun, antum salafuna wa nahnu bil-athar.) 'Peace be upon you O inhabitants of the grave! May Allah forgive us and you; you are our…

"‏ السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ يَا أَهْلَ الْقُبُورِ يَغْفِرُ اللَّهُ لَنَا وَلَكُمْ أَنْتُمْ سَلَفُنَا وَنَحْنُ بِالأَثَرِ ‏"

Narrated by Ibn ‘Abbās + 3 other versions

Chapter 60Chapter: What Has Been Related About The Permission To Visit The Graves

Authentic No. 1054

The Messenger of Allah said: "I had prohibited you from visiting the graves. But Muhammad was permitted to visit the grave of his mother: so visit them, for they will remind you of the Hereafter."

"‏ قَدْ كُنْتُ نَهَيْتُكُمْ عَنْ زِيَارَةِ الْقُبُورِ فَقَدْ أُذِنَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ فِي زِيَارَةِ قَبْرِ أُمِّهِ فَزُورُوهَا فَإِنَّهَا تُذَكِّرُ الآخِرَةَ ‏"

Narrated by Buraydah

Chapter 61Chapter: What Has Been Related About Women Visiting Graves

Differing grades No. 1055

"Abdur-Rahman bin Abi Bakr died in Al-Hubshi" He said: "He was carried to Makkah to be buried there. So when Aishah arrived she went to the grave of Abdur-Rahman bin Abi Bakr and she said: "We were like two drinking companions of Jadhimah for such a long time that they would say: 'They will never…

وَاللَّهِ لَوْ حَضَرْتُكَ مَا دُفِنْتَ إِلاَّ حَيْثُ مُتَّ وَلَوْ شَهِدْتُكَ مَا زُرْتُكَ ‏.‏

Narrated by Ā’ishah + 1 other version

Chapter 61bChapter: What has been related about it being disliked for women to visit the graves

Chapter 62Chapter: What Has Been Related About Burial During The Night

Differing grades No. 1057

"The Prophet entered a grave during the night, so a torch was lit for him. He took it (the deceased) in from the direction of the Qiblah, and he said: 'May Allah have mercy upon you, you were often invoking (Allah) by reciting the Qur'an.' And he said: 'Allahu Akbar four times."

"‏ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ إِنْ كُنْتَ لأَوَّاهًا تَلاَّءً لِلْقُرْآنِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ وَكَبَّرَ عَلَيْهِ أَرْبَعًا ‏

Narrated by Ibn ‘Abbās

Chapter 63Chapter: What Has Been Related About Praise For The Deceased

Authentic No. 1059

"I arrived in Al-Madinah and while I was sitting with Umar bin Al-Khattab they passed by with a funeral, over (a person) whom they were praising with good. Umar said: 'Granted.' I said to Umar: 'What is granted?' He said: 'I said as the Messenger of Allah said: "There is no Muslim about whom three…

"‏ مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَشْهَدُ لَهُ ثَلاَثَةٌ إِلاَّ وَجَبَتْ لَهُ الْجَنَّةُ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ قُلْنَا وَاثْنَانِ قَالَ ‏"‏ وَاثْنَانِ ‏"

Narrated by Umar ibn al-Khattāb

Chapter 64Chapter: What Has Been Related About The Rewards For One Whose Child Died Before Him

Authentic Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) No. 1060

Any Muslim who loses three of his children will not be touched by the Fire except in fulfillment of the oath

Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Any Muslim who loses three of his children will not be touched by the Fire except in fulfillment of the oath."

"‏ لاَ يَمُوتُ لأَحَدٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ ثَلاَثَةٌ مِنَ الْوَلَدِ فَتَمَسَّهُ النَّارُ إِلاَّ تَحِلَّةَ الْقَسَمِ ‏"

Narrated by Abu Hurayrah + 13 other versions Explained

Chapter 65Chapter: What Has Been Related About Who The Martyrs Are

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