Chapters Regarding Funerals
كتاب الجنائز
Chapter 5: What was narrated concerning the believer being rewarded for the agony of death
“The believer dies with sweat on his brow.”
“I asked the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ):‘When does a person stop recognizing people?’ he said: ‘When hesees.”
Chapter 6: What was narrated concerning closing the eyes of the deceased
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)entered upon Abu Salamah (after he had died), and his eyes were wideopen. He closed his eyes, then he said: ‘When the soul is taken,thesight follows it.’”
“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.”
Chapter 7: What was narrated concerning kissing the deceased
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)kissed‘Uthman bin Maz’un when he had died, and it is as if I can seehim with his tears flowing down his cheeks.”
It wasnarrated from Ibn ‘Abbas and ‘Aishah that Abu Bakr kissed theProphet (ﷺ) when he died.
Chapter 8: What was narrated concerning washing the deceased
“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.’”
“Hafsah narrated to me, from Umm‘Atiyyah” and it is similar to the Hadith of Muhammad. And in thenarration of Hafsah it says: “Wash her an odd number of times.”And:“Wash her face three or five times.” And “Start on herright, with theplaces washed in ablution.” And it says that Umm‘Atiyyah said: “Andwe combed her hair into three braids.”
“The Prophet (ﷺ) said to me: ‘Donotshow your thigh, and do not look at the thigh of anyone, living ordead.’”
‘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.”
“Whoever washes a dead person, let him take a bath.”
Chapter 9: What was narrated concerning a man washing his wife and a woman washing her husband
“If I had known then what I knownow,no one would have washed the Prophet (ﷺ) but his wives.”
“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.’”
Chapter 10: What was narrated concerning the washing of the Prophet (SAW)
“When theystartedto wash the Prophet (ﷺ), a voice called out from inside (thehouse)saying: ‘Do not remove the shirt of the Messenger of Allah.’”
“Maymyfather be sacrificed for you, you are pure; you were pure in lifeandyou are pure in death.”
“WhenI die, then wash me with seven buckets from me well, the well ofGhars.”
Chapter 11: What was narrated concerning the shrouding of the Prophet (saws)
“They used to claim that he wasshrouded inHibarah.” ‘Aishah said: “They brought a Hibarah Burd, buttheydid not shroud him in it.”
“The Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) was shrouded in three thin white Suhuli cloths.”
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)wasshrouded in three garments: The shirt in which he died, and aNajraniHullah.