Salim reported on the authority of his father: I saw the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and Abu Bakr and Umar walking before the funeral.
Read More..Narrated Al-Mughirah ibn Shubah: (I think that the people of Ziyad informed me that he reported on the authority of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم: A rider should go behind the bier, and those on foot should walk behind it, in front of it, on its right and on its left keeping near it. Prayer should be offered over an abortion and forgiveness and mercy supplicated for its parents.
Read More..Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Walk quickly with a funeral, for if the dead person was good it is a good condition to which you are sending him on, but it he was otherwise it is an evil of which you are riding yourselves.
Read More..Uyaynah ibn Abdur Rahman reported on the authority of his father that he attended the funeral of Uthman ibn Abul As. He said: We were walking slowly. Abu Bakrah then joined us and he raised his flog at us and said: You have seen us when we were with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. We were walking quickly.
Read More..Uyaynah also reported the aforementioned tradition (No. 3176) through a different chain of transmitters. This version goes: We attended the funeral of Abdur Rahman ibn Samurah and he said: He (Abu Bakrah) made his mule run quickly and pointed with the flog.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Masud: We asked the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم about walking with the funeral. He replied: Not running (but walking quickly). If he (the dead person) was good, send him to it quickly; if he was otherwise, keep away the people of Hell. The bier should be followed and should not follow. Those who go in front of it are not accompanying it. Abu Dawud said: The narrator Yahya bin Abdullah is weak. He is Yahya al-Jabir Abu Dawud said: This is from Kufah, and Abu Majidah is from Basrah. Abu Dawud said: Abu Majidah is obscure.
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