It wasnarrated from Samurah bin Jundab Al-Fazari that the MessengerofAllah (ﷺ) offered the funeral prayer for a woman who had died innifas* and he stood level with her middle (i.e. her waist).” *The postnatal bleeding period.

“I saw Anas bin Malik offeringthefuneral prayer for a man, and he stood level with his head. Thenanother funeral was brought, that of a woman, and they said: ‘O AbuHamzah! Offer the funeral prayer for her.’ So he stood level withthemiddle of the bed (the body was upon). ‘Ala’ bin Ziyad saidto him: ‘OAbu Hamzah! Is this how you saw the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) standingin relation to the body of a man and a woman as youhave stood?’ Hesaid: ‘Yes.’ Then he turned to us and said:‘Remember this.’”

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) offered the funeral prayer for a man among the Muslims and Iheard him say: ‘O Allah, so-and-so the son of so-and-so is in Yourcase and under Your protection. Protect him from the trial of thegrave and the torment of the Fire, for You are the One Who keeps thepromise and You are the Truth. Forgive him and have mercy on him, forYou are the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”

“If a child utters a sound (after being born), the funeralprayer should be offered for him and (his relatives) may inherit fromhim.”

“I said to ‘Abdullah bin Abi Awfa: ‘Didyou see Ibrahim, the son of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)?’ He said:‘He died when he was small, and if it had been decreed that thereshould be any Prophet after Muhammad (ﷺ), his son would have lived.But there is no Prophet after him.’”

“When Qasim the son of the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) died, Khadijah said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, the milk ofQasim’smother is overflowing. Would that Allah had let him liveuntil he hadfinished breastfeeding.’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)said: ‘He willcomplete his breastfeeding in Paradise.’ She said:‘If I know that, OMessenger of Allah, it makes it easier for me tobear.’ The Messengerof Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘If you wish, I willpray to Allah to let youhear his voice.’ She said: ‘O Messengerof Allah, rather I believeAllah and His Messenger.’”

“The Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) said: ‘Urge your dying ones to say: “La ilaha illallah.”

“When Ka’b was dying, Umm Bishr bint Bara’ bin Ma’rur came tohim andsaid: ‘O Abu ‘Abdur-Rahman! If you meet so-and-so, conveySalam to himfrom me.’ He said: ‘May Allah forgive you, O UmmBishr! We are toobusy to think of that.’ She said: ‘O Abu‘Abdur-Rahman! Did you nothear the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say:“The souls of the believers arein green birds, eating from thetrees of Paradise”?’ He said: ‘Yes.’She said: ‘That iswhat I mean.’”

“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.’”

“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.”

“If I had known then what I knownow,no one would have washed the Prophet (ﷺ) but his wives.”

“When theystartedto wash the Prophet (ﷺ), a voice called out from inside (thehouse)saying: ‘Do not remove the shirt of the Messenger of Allah.’”

“WhenI die, then wash me with seven buckets from me well, the well ofGhars.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)wasshrouded in three garments: The shirt in which he died, and aNajraniHullah.

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

“Youshouldmove with tranquility.”

‘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.”

“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.”

“I heard the Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) say: ‘When you offer the prayer for the deceased,supplicatesincerely for him.’”