“The Prophet (ﷺ) visitedthegrave of his mother and wept, causing the people around him toweep.Then he said: ‘I asked my Lord for permission to seekforgivenessfor her, but He did not give me permission. Then I askedmy Lord forpermission to visit her grave and He gave me permission.So visit thegraves, for they will remind you of death.’”

“A Bedouin came totheProphet (ﷺ) and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, my father used touphold the ties of kinship, and so and so forth, where is he?’ Hesaid: ‘In the Fire.’ It was as if he found that difficult tobear.Then he said: ‘O Messenger of Allah. Where is your father?’TheMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Whenever you pass by the graveof anidolater, give him the tidings of Hell-fire.’ The Bedouinlater becameMuslim, and he said: ‘The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)gave me a difficulttask. I never passed the grave of an idolater butI gave him thetidings of Hell-fire.’”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed women who visitgraves.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)cursed women who visit graves.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)cursed women who visit graves.”

“We were prevented fromfollowing the funeral, but that was not made binding on us.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wentoutand saw some women sitting, and he said: ‘What are you sittingherefor?’ They said: ‘We are waiting for the funeral.’ He said:‘Areyou going to wash the deceased?’ They said: ‘No.’ Hesaid: ‘Are yougoing to lower him into the grave?’ They said:‘No.’ He said: ‘Then goback with a burden of sin and notrewarded.’”

“Andthat they will not disobey you in Ma’ruf (all that is good inIslam);” he said: “(It is about) wailing.”

“Mu’awiyah delivered asermon in Hims, and in his sermon he mentioned that the Messenger ofAllah (ﷺ) forbade wailing.”

‘Wailing is one of the affairs of the Days of Ignorance,andif the woman who wails dies without having repented, Allah willcut agarment of pitch (tar) for her and a shirt of flaming fire.’”

“Wailing over the dead is one of the affairs of the Days ofIgnorance and if the woman who wails does not repent before she dies,she will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection wearing a shirt ofpitch (tar), over which she will wear a shirt of flaming fire.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)forbade following a funeral that was accompanied by a wailing woman.”

“Heis not one of us who tears his garments, strikes his cheeks,andcries with the cry of the Days of Ignorance.’”

It wasnarrated from Abu Umamah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)cursed thewoman who scratches her face and rends her garment andcries that sheis doomed (i.e. because of the death of this person).

“When Abu Musa fellsick, his wife Umm ‘Abdullah started to wail loudly. He woke up andsaid to her: ‘Do you not know that I am innocent of those whom theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) declared innocence of?’ And he told herthatthe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘I am innocent of those whoshavetheir heads, raise their voices and tear their garments (attimes ofcalamity).’”

It wasnarrated from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (ﷺ) wasattending afuneral. ‘Umar saw a woman and shouted at her, but theProphet(ﷺ) said, “Leave her alone, O ‘Umar, for the eye weeps andtheheart is afflicted, and the bereavement is recent.”

“The son of one of the daughters of theMessenger ofAllah (ﷺ) was dying. She sent for him, asking him tocome to her,and he sent word to her, saying: ‘To Allah belongs whatHe hastaken and to Him belongs what He has given. Everything has anappointed time with Him, so be patient and seek reward.’ But shesentfor him again, adjuring him to come. So the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)got up, and I got up with him, as did Mu’adh bin Jabal, Ubayybin Ka’band ‘Ubadah bin Samit. When we entered they handed thechild to theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ), and his soul was rattling inhis chest.” Ithink he was that it was like a water skin. “TheMessenger of Allah(ﷺ) wept, and ‘Ubadah bin Samit said to him:‘What is this, OMessenger of Allah?’ He said: ‘It iscompassion which Allah hascreated in the son of Adam. Allah onlyshows mercy to those of Hisslaves who are compassionate.’”

“When Ibrahim, the son ofthe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), died, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)wept.The one who was consoling him, either Abu Bakr or ‘Umar, saidto him:‘You are indeed the best of those who glorify Allah withwhat is dueto him.’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘The eyeweeps and theheart grieves, but we do not say anything that angersthe Lord. Wereit not that death is something that inevitably comesto all, and thatthe latter will surely join the former, then wewould have been morethan we are, verily we grieve for you.’”

“Yourbrother has been killed.” She said: “May Allah have mercy on him.Innalillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un (Truly, to Allah we belong andtruly,to Him we shall return).” They said: “Your husband hasbeen killed.”She said: “O grief!” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)said: “The woman hasa strong love for her husband, which she doesnot have for anythingelse.”

“But there isnoone to weep for Hamzah.” So the women of Ansar started to weep forHamzah. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) woke up and said, ‘Woe tothem,have they not gone home yet? Tell them to go home and not toweep foranyone who dies after this day.’”