“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘The (funeral) prayershould be offered for a child.’”

“The Prophet (ﷺ) said:‘Offerthe (funeral) prayer for your children, for they have goneahead ofyou (i.e. to prepare your place in Paradise for you).”

“The Muslim has six courtesies due from the Muslim: He shouldgreethim with Salam when he meets him; he should accept hisinvitation ifhe invites him; he should answer [by Yarhamuk-Allah (mayAllah havemercy on you)] to him if he sneezes (and says Al-Hamdulillah); heshould visit him if he falls sick; he should followhis funeral if hedies; and he should love for him what he loves forhimself.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came walkingtovisit me (when I was sick), as did Abu Bakr, when I was with BanuSalimah.

“What do you long for?” He said: “I long for wheatbread.”The Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Whoever has any wheat bread, lethim send itto his brother.” Then the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “If anysick personamong you longs for something, then feed him.”

“The Prophet (ﷺ)saidto me: ‘When you enter upon one who is sick, tell him to pray foryou, for his supplication is like the supplication of the angels.’”

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)say: ‘Whoever comes to his Muslim brother and visits him (when heissick), he is walking among the harvest of Paradise until he sitsdown,and when he sits down he is covered with mercy. If it ismorning,seventy thousand angels will send blessing upon him untilevening, andif it is evening, seventy thousand angels will sendblessing upon himuntil morning.’”

“When you come to your dead ones, close their eyes, forthe sightfollows the soul. And say good things, for the Angels sayAmin towhat the members of the household say.”

“The Messenger ofAllah (ﷺ) entered upon us when we were washing his daughter UmmKulthum. He said: ‘Wash her three or five times, or more than thatifyou think you need to, with water and lote leaves, and put camphorora little camphor in (the water) for the last washing. When youhavefinished, call for me.’ When we finished, we called him, andhe gavehis waist-wrapper to us and said: ‘Shroud her with it.’”

‘Let the honest wash your dead.”

“Whoeverwashes a deceased person, shrouds him, embalms him, carrieshim andoffers the funeral prayer for him, and does not disclose whathe hasseen, he will emerge from his sins as on the day his motherborehim.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cameback from Al-Baqi’ and I had a headache and was saying: ‘O myhead!’He said: ‘Rather, I should say, O my head, O ‘Aishah!’Then he said:‘It will not matter if you were to die before me, forI will take careof you, wash you, shroud you, offer the funeralprayer for you andbury you.’”

“I saw the Prophet(ﷺ),Abu Bakr and ‘Umar walking ahead of the funeral (procession).”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded usto recite the Opening of the Book (Al-Fatihah) in the funeralprayer.”

“When the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)offered the funeral prayer he would say: ‘Allahummaghfirlihayyinawa mayyitina, wa shahidina wa gha’ibina, wa saghirina wakabirina,wa dhakarina wa unthana. Allahumma man ahyaitahu minnafa'ahyihi‘alal-Islam, wa man tawaffaytahu minna fa tawaffahu ‘alal-iman.Allahumma la tahrimna ajrahu wa la tudillana ba’dah. [O Allah,forgive our living and our dead, those who are present and those whoare absent, our young and our old, our males and our females. OAllah,whomever of us You cause to live, let him live in Islam, andwhomeverof us You cause to die, let him die in (a state of) faith. OAllah, donot deprive us of his reward, and do not let us go astrayafterhim].’”

It wasnarrated from Kathir bin ‘Abdullah, from his father, from hisgrandfather, that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said the Takbir fivetimes.

“They (the martyrs) werebroughtto the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) on the Day of Uhud, and hestarted tooffer the funeral prayer for them, ten by ten. Hamzah laywhere helay, and they were taken away but he was left where he was.”

“Five are the rights of the Muslim: Returning his greeting,accepting his invitation; attending his funeral; visiting the sick;and answering (saying Yarhamuk-Allah) to the one who sneezes, if hepraises Allah (says Al-Hamdu Lillah).”

“The Prophet (ﷺ) did notvisitany sick person until after three days.”

“When you enter upon one who is sick, cheer him up andgive him hope of a long life, for that does not change anything (ofthe Divine Decree), but it will cheer the heart of the one who issick.”