“The best of your garments are those which are white, so shroudyour dead in them, and wear them.”

“The best of shrouds is the Hullah (two-piecer).”

“Ifanyone of you is charged with taking care of his brother(afterdeath), let him shroud him well.”

“When Ibrahim the son oftheProphet (ﷺ) died, the Prophet (ﷺ) said to them: ‘Do not wraphim in his shroud until I look at him.’ He came to him, bent overandwept.”

“If one of the members ofhisfamily died, Hudhaifah would say: ‘Do not inform anyone of it, forI am afraid that that would be a public death announcement. I heardthe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) with these two ears of mine forbiddingmaking public death announcements.’”

‘Hasten with the funeral (procession), for if the person wasrighteous then you are advancing him towards good, and if he wasotherwise then it is evil which you are taking off of your necks.”

“ ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud said:‘Whoever follows a funeral (procession), let him carry all (four)corners of it (in turn), for that is Sunnah. Then if he wishes lethimvoluntarily carry it, and if he wishes let him not do so.’”

“Youshouldmove with tranquility.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw some peopleridingon their animals in a funeral (procession). He said: ‘Do younotfeel ashamed that the angels of Allah are walking on foot and youareriding?’”

“I heard the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)say: ‘The rider should travel behind the funeral (procession)but theone who is walking may walk wherever he wants.”

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

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ),Abu Bakr, ‘Umar and ‘Uthman used to walk ahead of the funeral(procession).”

‘The funeral should be followed and should not follow.There should be no one with it who walks ahead of it.”

“We wentoutwith the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to attend a funeral, and he sawsome people who had cast aside their upper sheets and were walking intheir shirts only. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Are youadopting the practice of the days of ignorance?’ or; ‘Are youimitating the behavior of the days of ignorance? I was about tosupplicate against you that you would return in a different form.’Sothey put their sheets back on and never did that again.”

“Do not delay the funeral once it is ready.”

“Abu MusaAsh’arileft instructions, when he was dying, saying: ‘Do not followmewith a censer.’* They said to him: ‘Did you hear somethingconcerning that?’ He said: ‘Yes, from the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ).’”

“Whoeverhas the funeral prayer offered for him by one hundredMuslims, hewill be forgiven.”

“A son of ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abbas died, and he said to me:‘OKuraib! Get up and see if anyone has assembled (to pray) for myson.’I said: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘Woe to you, how many do yousee? Forty?’ Isaid: ‘No, rather there are more.’ He said:‘Take my son out, for Ibear witness that I hear the Messenger ofAllah (ﷺ) say: “No (groupof) forty believers intercede for abeliever, but Allah will accepttheir intercession.”

“If a funeral procession was brought and the number ofpeoplewho followed it was considered to be small, they would beorganizedinto three rows, then the funeral prayer would be offered.”Hesaid: “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘No three rows ofMuslimsoffer the funeral prayer for one who has died, but he will beguaranteed (Paradise).’”

“A funeral (procession)passedby the Prophet (ﷺ) and they praised (the deceased) and spokewellof him. He said: ‘(Paradise is) guaranteed for him.’ Then anotherfuneral passed by and they spoke badly of him, and he (the Prophet(ﷺ)) said: ‘(Hell is) guaranteed for him.’ It was said: ‘OMessengerof Allah, you said that (Paradise was) guaranteed for thisone andthat (Hell was) guaranteed for the other one.’ He said: ‘Itis thetestimony of the people, and the believers are the witnessesof Allahon earth.’”