It is narrated on the authority of Jabir ibn 'Abdullah: There passed a bier and the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) stood up for it and we also stood up along with him. We said: Messenger of Allah, that was the bier of a Jewess. Upon this he remarked: Verily, death is a matter of consternation, so whenever you come across a bier stand up.
Read More..Ibn Juraij told me that Abu Zubair heard Jabir say that the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) kept standing for a bier until it disappeared.
Read More..Again Abu Zubair heard Jabir say that the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and his Companions kept standing for a bier of a Jew until it disappeared from sight.
Read More..It is narrated on the authority of Ibn Abu Laila that while Qais b. Sa'd and Sahl b. Hunaif were both in Qadislyya a bier passed by them and they both stood up. They were told that it was the bier of one of the people of the land (non-Muslim). They said that a bier passed before the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and he stood up. He was told that he (the dead man) was a Jew. Upon this he remarked: Was he not a human being or did he not have a soul? And in the hadith narrated by 'Amr b. Murra with the same chain of transmitters, (the words) are: There passed a bier before us.
Read More..It is narrated on the authority of Waqid: Nafi' b. Jubair saw me and we were standing for a bier, while he was sitting and waiting for the bier to be placed on the ground. He said to me: What makes you keep standing? I said: I am waiting that the bier may be placed on the ground (and I am doing that) on the hadith narrated to me by Abu Sa'id al-Khudri. Upon this Nafi' said: Verily, Mas'ud b. Hakam reported to me on the authority of Hadrat 'Ali b. Abu Talib that the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) stood up first (for a bier) and then sat down.
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