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.
Read More..Mas'ud b. al-Hakam al-Ansari informed Nafi' that he had heard Hadrat 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), son of Abu Talib, say about the biers: Verily, the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to stand first but later on kept sitting; but it is also narrated that Nafi' ibn Jubair saw Waqid b. 'Amr standing for a bier till it was placed down.
Read More..This hadith has been narrated by Yahya b. Sa'id with the same chain of transmitters.
Read More..It is narrated on the authority of Muhammad b. Munkadir that he said: I heard from Mas'ud b. al-Hakam who narrated it on the authority of Hadrat 'Ali that he said: We saw the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) stood up for a (bier) and we also stood up; he sat down and we too sat down.
Read More..This hadith has been narrated by Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters.
Read More..Jubair b. Nufair says: I heard it from 'Auf b. Malik that the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said prayer on the dead body, and I remembered his prayer: O Allah! forgive him, have mercy upon him, give him peace and absolve him. Receive him with honour and make his grave spacious; wash him with water, snow and hail. Cleanse him from faults as Thou wouldst cleanse a white garment from impurity. Requite him with an abode more excellent than his abode, with a family better than his family, and with a mate better than his mate. Admit him to the Garden, and protect him from the torment of the grave and the torment of the Fire. ('Auf bin Malik) said: I earnestly desired that I were this dead body.
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