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Sunan Abi Dawud

Chapter 21 Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz) • 153 Hadiths 544

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Narrated Amir ar-Ram: We were in our country when flags and banners were raised. I said: What is this? The (the people) said: This is the banner of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). So I came to him. He was (sitting) under a tree. A sheet of cloth was spre...

Narrated Muhammad ibn Khalid as-Sulami: on his father's authority said his grandfather reported: He was a Companion of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: When Allah has previously decreed for a servant a rank whi...

Narrated Abu Musa:I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) many times say: When a servant of Allah is accustomed to do a good work, then becomes ill or goes on journey, what was accustomed to do when he was well and staying at home will be recorded for him...

Narrated Umm al-Ala: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) visited me while I was sick. He said: Be glad, Umm al-Ala' for Allah removes the sins of a Muslim for his illness as fire removes the dross of gold and silver...

Narrated 'Aishah: I said: Messenger of Allah, I know the severest verse in the Qur'an. He asked: What is that verse. A'ishah? She replied: Allah's words: "If anyone does evil, he will be requited for it." He said: Do you know A'ishah, that when a bel...

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Narrated Usamah b. Zaid:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went out to visit 'Abd Allah b. Ubayy during his illness of which he died. When he entered upon him, he realised death on him. He said: I used to forbid you from the love of Jews. He ('Abd Allah) sai...

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Narrated Anas :A young Jew became ill. The Prophet (ﷺ) went to visit him. He sat down by his head and said to him: Accept Islam. He looked at his father who was beside him near his head, and he said: Obey Abu al-Qasim. So he accepted Islam, and the P...

Narrated Jabir:The Prophet (ﷺ) would visit me (during my illness) riding neither a mule nor a pony...

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone performs ablution well and pays a visit to his (sick) Muslim brother seeking his reward from Allah, he will be removed a distance of seventy years (kharif) from Hell. I asked: What is kharif, A...

Narrated 'Ali:If a man visits a patient in the evening, seventy thousand angels come along with him seeking forgiveness from Allah for him till the morning, and he will have a garden in the Paradise...

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The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by 'Ali from the Prophet (ﷺ) through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version does not mention the word "garden" (khartf). Abu Dawud said:This tradition has been narrated ...

Narrated Abu Ja'far 'Abd Allah b. Nafi', the slave of al-Hasan b. 'Ali: Abu Musa paid a sick visit to al-Hasan b. 'Ali. Abu Dawud said: He narrated the tradition to the same effect as narrated by Shu'bah. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been trans...

Narrated 'Aishah:When Sa'd b. Mu'adh suffered affliction on the day of Trench (i.e. the battle of Trench) a man shot an arrow in the vein of his hand. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) pitched a tent for him the mosque so that he might visit him from near...

Narrated Zayd ibn Arqam: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) visited me while I was suffering from pain in my eyes...

Narrated 'Abd Allah b. 'Abbas:That 'Abd al-Rahman b.'Awf said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: When you hear that it is breaking out in a certain territory, do not go there. If it breaks out in the territory you are in, do not go out fleeing ...

Narrated 'Aishah daughter of Sa'd:That her father said: I had a complaint at Mecca. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to pay a sick-visit to me. He put his hand on my forehead, wiped my chest and belly, and then said: O Allah! heal up Sa'd and complete...

Narrated Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Feed the hungry, visit the sick and free the captive. Sufyan said: al-'ani means captive...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone visits a sick whose time (of death) has not come, and says with him seven times: I ask Allah, the Mighty, the Lord of the mighty Throne, to cure you, Allah will cure him from that disease...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When a man comes to visit a sick person, he should say: O Allah, cure Thy servant, who may then wreak havoc on an enemy for your sake, or walk at a funeral for your sake. Abu Dawud said: Ibn...

Narrated Anas:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: No one of you should wish for death for any calamity that befalls him, but he should say: O Allah! cause me to live so long as my life is better for me ; and cause me to die where death is better fo...

Narrated Anas bin Malik:The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: No one of you should wish for death. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition in a similar manner...

Narrated Ubayd ibn Khalid as-Sulami,: A man from the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ), said: The narrator Sa'd ibn Ubaydah narrated sometimes from the Prophet (ﷺ) and sometimes as a statement of Ubayd (ibn Khalid): The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Sudden death is ...

Narrated Jabir ibn Atik: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to visit Abdullah ibn Thabit who was ill. He found that he was dominated (by the divine decree). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) called him loudly, but he did not respond. He uttered the Qur'anic ve...

Narrated Abu Hurairah: Banu al-Harith b. 'Amir b. Nawfal bought Khubaib. Khubaib killed al-Harith b. 'Amir on the day of Badr. Khubaib remained with them as a prisoner until they agreed on his killing. He borrowed razor form the daughter of al-Harith...

Narrated Jabir b. 'Abd Allah :I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say three days before his death: No one of you dies but he had good faith in Allah...

Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri: When the time of his death came, he called for new clothes and put on them. He then said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: A deceased will be raised in the clothes in which he died...

Narrated Umm Salamah:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): When you attend dying man, you should say good words, for the angels say Amin to what you say. When Abu Salamah died, I said: What should I say, Messenger of Allah? He said: O Allah forgive him, and gi...

Narrated Mu’adh bin Jabal :The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: If anyone's last words are "There is no god but Allah" he will enter Paradise...

Narrated Abu Sa’id Al Khudri :The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Recite to those of you who are dying "There is no god but Allah...

Narrated Umm Salamah: When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered upon Abu Salamah, his eyes were fixedly open. So he closed them. The members of his family cried. He said: Do not pray for yourself anything but good, for the angels utter Amin to what you...

Narrated Umm Salamah:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When one of you is afflicted with a calamity, he should say: "We belong to Allah, and to Him we do return." O Allah, I expect reward from Thee from this affliction, so give me reward for it, ...

Narrated 'Aishah:The Prophet (ﷺ) was covered with striped Yemen garment (after his death)...

Narrated Ma'qil ibn Yasar: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Recite Surah Ya-Sin over your dying men. This is the version of Ibn al-Ala...

Narrated 'Aishah:When Zaid b. Harithah, Ja'far and 'Abd Allah b. Rawahah were killed, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat down in the mosque and grief was visible in his face. Then he (the narrator) mentioned the rest of the tradition...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As: We buried a deceased person in the company of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). When we had finished, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) returned and we also returned with him. When he approached his door, he stopped, and we s...

Narrated Anas:The Prophet (ﷺ) came upon a woman who was weeping for her child. He said to her: Fear Allah and have patience. She said: What have you to do with my calamity ? She was then told that he was the Prophet (ﷺ). She, therefore, came to him. ...

Narrated Usamah b. Zaid:A daughter of Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent him message while I and Sa'd were with him and I think Ubayy was also there: My son or daughter (the narrator is doubtful) is dying, so come to us. He sent her greeting, saying at the ...

Narrated Anas bin Malik:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: A child was born to me at night and I named him Ibrahim after his. He then narrated the rest of the tradition. Anas said: I saw it at the point of the death before the Messenger of Allah (...

Narrated Umm 'Atiyyah :The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited us to wail...

Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed the wailing woman and the woman who listens to her...

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Narrated Ibn 'Umar: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: The dead is punished because of his family's weeping for him. When this was mentioned to 'Aishah, she said: Ibn 'Umar forgot and made a mistake. The Prophet (ﷺ) passed by grave and he said: Th...

Yazid ibn Aws said:I entered upon AbuMusa while he was at the point of death. His wife began to weep or was going to weep. AbuMusa said to her: Did you not hear what the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said? She said: Yes. The narrator said: She then kept sil...

Usayd ibn Abu Usayd, reported on the authority of a woman who took oath of allegiance (to the Prophet):One of the oaths which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) received from us about the virtue was that we would not disobey him in it (virtue): that we would...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Ja'far: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Prepare food for the family of Ja'far for there came upon them an incident which has engaged them...

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: A man had a shot of arrow in his chest or throat (the narrator is doubtful). So he died. He was shrouded in his clothes as he was. The narrator said: We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded to remove weapons and skins from the martyrs of Uhud, and that they should be buried with their blood and clothes...

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The martyrs of Uhud were not washed, and they were buried with their blood. No prayer was offered over them...

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) passed Hamzah who was killed and disfigured. He said: If Safiyyah were not grieved, I would have left him until the birds and beasts of prey would have eaten him, and he would have been resurrected ...

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet (ﷺ) passed by Hamzah who was disfigured (after being killed). He did not offer prayer over any martyr except him...

Narrated Jabir b. 'Abd Allah :The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) combined two persons from among the martyrs of Uhud (in one garment), and said: Which of the two has learnt the Qur'an more ? When one of them was pointed to him, he advanced him in the grave, ...

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by al-Laith through a different chain of the same effect. This version adds:He combined two persons from among the martyrs of Uhud in one garment...

Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not unveil your thigh, and do not look at the thigh of the living and the dead...

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Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: By Allah, we did not know whether we should take off the clothes of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as we took off the clothes of our dead, or wash him while his clothes were on him. When they (the people) differed among th...

Narrated Umm 'Atiyyah : The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came in when his daughter died, and he said: Wash her with water and lotus leaves three or five times or more than that if you think fit, and put camphor, or some camphor in the last washing, then in...

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Umm 'Atiyyah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version adds:We braided her hair in three plaits...

The above mentioned has also been transmitted by Umm 'Atiyyah through a different chain of narrators. This version has:we braided her hair in three plaits and placed them behind her back, one plait of the front side and the two side plaits...

Narrated Umm 'Atiyyah :The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to them while washing her daughter: Begin with her right side, and the places where the ablution is performed...

The above mentioned tradition has also been transmitted by Umm 'Atiyyah through a different chain of narrators. This version has:(Wash her) seven times or more if you think fit...

Narrated Qatadah:Muhammad b. Sirin used to learn how to wash the dead from Umm 'Atiyyah: he would was with lotus leaves twice and with water and camphor for the third time...

Narrated Jabir b. 'Abd Allah :The Prophet (ﷺ) made a speech one day and mentioned a man from among his Companions who died and was shrouded in a shroud of bad quality, and was buried at night. The Prophet (ﷺ) rebuked that man be buried at night until...

Narrated 'Aishah:That the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was shrouded in a garment of Yemeni stuff, it was then removed from him...

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of you dies, and he possesses something, he should be shrouded in the garment of the Yemeni stuff...

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was shrouded in three garments of white Yemeni stuff, among which was neither a shirt nor a turban...

A similar tradition has been transmitted by 'Aishah through a different chain of narrators. This version adds:"of cotton". The narrator said: Aisha was told that the people said that he was shrouded in two garments and one cloak. She replied: A cloak...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was shrouded in three garments made in Najran: two garments and one shirt in which he died. Abu Dawud said: The narrator 'Uthman said: In three garments: two red garments and a shirt in which he...

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Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: Do not be extravagant in shrouding, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Do not be extravagant in shrouding, for it will be quickly decayed...

Narrated Khabbab:Mus'ab b. 'Umari was killed on the day of Uhud. He had only a striped cloak. When we covered his head with it, his feet appeared, and when we covered his feet, his head appeared. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Cover his h...

Narrated Ubadah ibn as-Samit: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The best shroud is a lower garment and one which covers the whole body, and the best sacrifice is a horned ram...

Narrated Layla daughter of Qa'if ath-Thaqafiyyah: I was one of those who washed Umm Kulthum, daughter of the Prophet (ﷺ), when she died. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) first gave us lower garment, then shirt, then head-wear, then cloak (which covers the ...

Narrated Abu Sa’id Al Khudri :The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: The best of your perfumes is musk...

Narrated Al-Husayn ibn Wahwah: Talhah ibn al-Bara' fell ill and the Prophet (ﷺ) came to pay him a sick-visit. He said: I think Talhah has died; so tell me (about his death), and make haste, for it is not advisable that the corpse of a Muslim should r...

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: The Prophet (ﷺ) used to take a bath on account of sexual defilement, on Friday, for cupping and washing the dead...

Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: He who washes the dead should take a bath, and he who carries him should perform ablution...

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu Hurairah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. Abu Dawud said:This has been abrogated. When Ahmad b. Hanbal was asked about a man taking a bath after his washing the ...

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) that he kissed Uthman ibn Maz'un while he was dead, and I saw that tears were flowing (from his eyes)...

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The people saw fire (light) in the graveyard and they went there. They found that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was in a grave and he was saying: Give me your companion. This was a man who used to raise his voice while menti...

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: On the day of Uhud we brought the martyrs to bury them (at another place), but the crier of the Prophet (ﷺ) came and said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) has commanded you to bury the martyrs at the place where they fell. So ...

Narrated Malik ibn Hubayrah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If any Muslim dies and three rows of Muslims pray over him, it will assure him (of Paradise). When Malik considered those who accompanied a bier to be a few, he divided them into three rows in accord...

Narrated Umm 'Atiyyah :We were forbidden accompany the biers, but it was not stressed upon us...

Narrated Abu Hurairah:If anyone attends the funeral and prays over (the dead), he will get the reward of one qirat, and if anyone attends the funeral until the completion (of the burial), he will get the reward of two qirats, the smaller of them bein...

Dawud b. 'Amir b. Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas said that his father 'Amir b. Sa'd was with Ibn 'Umar b. al-Khattab when Khabbab, the owner of the closet (maqsurah), came and said:'Abd Allah b.'Umar dont you hear what Abu Hurairah says ? He heard the Messenger ...

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: If any Muslim dies and forty men associate nothing with Allah stand over his bier. Allah will accept them as intercessors for him...

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet (said) said: A bier should not be followed by a loud voice (of wailing) or fire. Abu Dawud said: Harun (one of the narrators) added: "And it should not be preceded (with those) either...

Narrated 'Amir b. Rabi'ah:The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: When you see a funeral, stand up for it till it leaves you behind or it is placed (on the ground)...

Narrated Abu Sa’id Al Khudri :The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When you follow a funeral, do not sit until the bier is placed (on the ground). Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by al-Thawri (i.e. Sufyan) from Suhail, from his fath...

Narrated Jabir:We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) when a funeral passed hi and he stood up for it. When we went to carry it, we found that it was a funeral of a Jew. We, therefore said: Messenger of Allah, this is the funeral of a Jew. He said: Death is fe...

Narrated 'Ali bin Abi Talib:The Prophet (ﷺ) stood up for a funeral (to show respect) and thereafter he sat down...

Narrated Ubadah ibn as-Samit: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to stand up for a funeral until the corpse was placed in the grave. A learned Jew (once) passed him and said: This is how we do. The Prophet (ﷺ) sat down and said: Sit down and act differe...

Narrated Thawban: An animal was brought to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) while he was going with a funeral. He refused to ride on it. When the funeral was away, the animal was brought to him and he rode on it. He was asked about it. He said: The angels ...

Narrated Jabir b. Samurah:The Prophet (ﷺ) offered funeral prayer over Ibn al-Dahdah while we were present. He was then brought a horse, and it was tied until he rode it. It then began to gallop and we were running around it...

Salim reported on the authority of his father:I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr and Umar walking before the funeral...

Narrated Al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah: (I think that the people of Ziyad informed me that he reported on the authority of the Prophet (ﷺ): 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 ...

Narrated Abu Hurairah:The Prophet (ﷺ) 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...

Uyaynah ibn AbdurRahman reported on the authority of his father that he attended the funeral of Uthman ibn Abul'As. He said:We were walking slowly. AbuBakrah then joined us and he raised his flog at us and said: You have seen us when we were with the...

Uyaynah also reported the aforementioned tradition (No. 3176) through a different chain of transmitters. This version goes:We attended the funeral of AbdurRahman ibn Samurah and he said: He (AbuBakrah) made his mule run quickly and pointed with the f...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud: We asked the Prophet (ﷺ) 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 bie...

Narrated Jabir ibn Samurah: A man fell ill and a cry was raised (for his death). So his neighbour came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said to him: He has died. He asked: Who told you? He said: I have seen him. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: He h...

Narrated AbuBarzah al-Aslami: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did not pray over Ma'iz ibn Malik, and he did not prohibit to pray over him...

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Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: Ibrahim, the son of the Prophet (ﷺ), died when he was eighteen months old. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did not pray over him...

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Narrated Al-Bahiyy: When Ibrahim, the son of the Prophet (ﷺ) died, he prayed over him at the place where he used to sit. Abu Dawud said: I recited to Sa'id b. Ya'qub al-Taliqani saying: Ibn al-Mubarak transmitted to you from Ya'qub b. al-Qa'qa' on th...

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Narrated 'Aishah:I swear by Allah, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed over Suhail b. al-Baida' in the mosque...

Narrated 'Aishah:I swear by Allah, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed in the mosque over the two sons of al-Baida': Suhail and his brother...

Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone prays over the dead in the mosque, there is nothing on him...

Narrated 'Uqbah bin 'Amir:There were three times at which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to forbid us to pray or bury our dead - when the sun begins to rise till it is fully up, when the sun is at its height midway till it passes the meridian, and w...

Yahya ibn Subayh said:Ammar client of al-Harith ibn Nawfal told me that he attended the funeral of Umm Kulthum, and her son. The body of the boy was placed near the imam. I objected to it. Among the people there were Ibn Abbas, AbuSa'id al-Khudri, Ab...

Nafi' AbuGhalib said:I was in the Sikkat al-Mirbad. A bier passed and a large number of people were accompanying it. They said: Bier of Abdullah ibn Umayr. So I followed it. Suddenly I saw a man, who had a thin garment on riding his small mule. He ha...

Narrated Samurah bin Jundab:I prayed behing the Prophet (ﷺ) over a woman who died in childbirth, and he stood opposite her waist...

Narrated Al-Sha'bi:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) passed a grave dug freshly. They arranged a row and uttered four takbirs over it. I asked al-Sha'bi: Who told you ? He replied: A reliable person whom 'Abd Allah b. 'Abbas attended...

Narrated Ibn Abi Laila: Zaid b. Arqam used to utter four takbirs (Allah is Most Great) over our dead person (during prayer). He uttered five takbirs on a dead person. So I asked him. He replied: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to utter those. Abu Daw...

Narrated Talhah b. 'Abd Allah b. 'Awf:I prayed over a dead person along with Ibn 'Abbas. He recited Surat al-Fatihah and he said: This is the Sunnah...

Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When you pray over the dead, make a sincere supplication for him...

Ali ibn Shammakh said:I was present with Marwan who asked AbuHurayrah: Did you hear how the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to pray over the dead? He said: Even with the words that you said. (The narrator said: They exchanged hot words between them befor...

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Narrated AbuHurayrah: When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed over a dead person, he said: O Allah, forgive those of us who are living and those of us who are dead, those of us who are present and those of us who are absent, our young and our old, our...

Narrated Wathilah ibn al-Asqa': The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) led us in prayer over bier of a Muslim and I heard him say: O Allah, so and so, son of so and so, is in Thy protection, so guard him from the trial in the grave. (AbdurRahman in his version s...

Narrated Abu Hurairah:A negress (or a youth) used to sweep the mosque. The Prophet (ﷺ) missed him, and when he asked about him the people told him that he had died. He said: Why have you not informed me ? He said: Lead me to his grave. So they led hi...

Narrated Abu Hurairah:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave the people news of death of Negus on the day on which he died, took them out to the place of prayer, drew them up in rows and said: "Allah is Most Great" four times...

Narrated Abu Burdah:On the authority of his father: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded us to proceed to the land of Negus. Mentioning the rest of the tradition he said that Negus said: I bear witness that he is the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and it is...

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Narrated Al-Muttalib: When Uthman ibn Maz'un died, he was brought out on his bier and buried. The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered a man to bring him a stone, but he was unable to carry it. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) got up and going over to it rolled up his slee...

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Breaking a dead man's bone is like breaking it when he is alive...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The niche in the side of the grave is for us and the excavation in the middle is for others...

Narrated Amir: Ali, Fadl and Usamah ibn Zayd washed the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and they put him in his grave. Marhab or Ibn AbuMarhab told me that they also made AbdurRahman ibn Awf join them. When Ali became free, he said: The People of the man serv...

Narrated Abu Marhab:That 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Awf alighted in the grave of the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: I still seem to see the four of them...

Abu Ishaq said:Al-Harith left his will that Abdullah ibn Yazid should offer his funeral prayer; so he prayed over him. He then put him in the grave from the side of his legs and said: This is a Sunnah (model practice of the Prophet)...

Narrated Al-Bara' ibn Azib: We went out with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to the funeral of a man of the Ansar, but when we reached the grave, the niche in the side had not yet been made, so the Prophet (ﷺ) sat down facing the qiblah, and we sat down a...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: When the Prophet (ﷺ) placed the dead in the grave, he said: In the name of Allah, and following the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). This is Muslim's version...

Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: I said to the Prophet (ﷺ): Your old and astray uncle has died. He said: Go and bury your father, and then do not do anything until you come to me. So I went, buried him and came to him. He ordered me (to take a bath), so I ...

Narrated Hisham ibn Amir: The Ansar came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) on the day of Uhud and said: We have been afflicted with wound and fatigue. What do you command us? He said: Dig graves, make them wide, bury two or three in a single grave. He wa...

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Humaid b. Hilal with a different chain of transmitters and to the same effect. This version adds:"And deepen (the graves)...

This tradition has also been transmitted by Sa'd b. Hisham b. 'Amir with a different chain of narrators...

Narrated Abu Hayyaj al-Asadi:'Ali said to me: I am sending you on the same mission as the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent me that I should not leave a high grave without leveling it and an image without obliterating it...

Narrated Abu 'Ali al-Hamdani: We were with Fudalah b. 'Ubaid at Rudis in the land of Rome. One of our Companions dies, Fudalah commanded us to dig his grave; it was (dug and) levelled. He then said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanding to le...

Narrated Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn AbuBakr: I said to Aisha! Mother, show me the grave of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and his two Companions (Allah be pleased with them). She showed me three graves which were neither high nor low, but were spread with...

Narrated Uthman ibn Affan: Whenever the Prophet (ﷺ) became free from burying the dead, he used to stay at him (i.e. his grave) and say: Seek forgiveness for your brother, and beg steadfastness for him, for he will be questioned now. Abu Dawud said: T...

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: There is no slaughtering (at the grave) in Islam. 'Abd al-Razzaq said: They used to slaughter cows or sheep at grave...

Narrated 'Uqbah bin 'Amir:One day the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went out and prayed over the martyrs of Uhud like his prayer over the dead, and then returned...

Narrated Yazid b. Habib:The Prophet (ﷺ) prayed over the martyrs of Uhud after eight years like a man who bids farewell to the living and dead...

Narrated Jabir:I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) forbid to sit on the grave, to plaster it with gypsum, and to build any structure over it...

The tradition mentioned above has also been narrated by Jabir through a different chain of transmitters. Abu Dawud said:'Uthman said: "or anything added to it." Sulaiman b. Musa said: "or anything written on it." Musaddad did not mention in his versi...

Narrated Abu Hurairah:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Allah's curse to be on the Jews, they made the graves of their Prophets mosques...

Narrated Abu Hurairah:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: It is better that one of you should sit on the live coals which burns his clothing and come in contact with his skin than that he should sit on a grave...

Narrated Abu Marthad al-Ghanawi :The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Do not sit on the graves, and do not pray facing them...

Narrated Bashir, the Client of the Messenger of Allah: Bashir's name in pre-Islamic days was Zahm ibn Ma'bad. When he migrated to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He asked: What is your name? He replied: Zahm. He said: No, you are Bashir. He (Bashir) said...

Narrated Anas:The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: When a servant (of Allah) is placed in his grave, and his Companions depart from him, he hears the stepping sound of their shoes...

Narrated Jabir:A man was buried with my father. I had a desire at heart for that (place for my burial). So I took him out after six months. I did not find any change (in his body) except a few hair that touched the earth...

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Narrated AbuHurayrah: People with a bier passed by the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). They (the companions) spoke highly of him. He said: Paradise is certain for him. Then some people with another (bier) passed by him. They spoke very badly of him. He said:...

Narrated Abu Hurairah:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) visited his mother's grave and wept and cause those around him to weep. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then said: I asked my Lord's permission to pray for forgiveness for her, but I was not allowed. I then...

Narrated Buraidah:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: I forbade you to visit graves, but you may now visit them, for in visiting them there is a reminder (of death)...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed women who visit graves, those who built mosques over them and erected lamps (there)...

Narrated Abu Hurairah:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went out to the graveyard and said: Peace be upon you, inhabitants of the dwellings who are of the community of the believers. If Allah wills we shall join you...

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: To the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was brought man wearing ihram who was thrown by his she-camel and has his neck broken and had died. He then said: Shroud him in his two garments, was him with water and lotus leaves, but do not cover...

A similar tradition has also been narrated by Ibn 'Abbas through a different chain of narrators. This version has:"Shroud him in two garments." Abu Dawud said: The narrator Sulaiman said the Ayyub said: "his two garments," 'Amr said: "tow garments," ...

A similar tradition has also been narrated by Ibn 'Abbas through a different chain of transmitters to the effect as narrated by Sulaiman saying:"in two garments...

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:A man wearing ihram was thrown by his she-camel and had his neck broken and he died. He was brought to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and he said: Wash and shroud him, but do not cover his head and do not put any perfume on him, for ...

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Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

Hadith #1 — 390

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Hadith #391 — 1160

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Hadith #1161 — 1197

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Rules of Law about the Prayer during Journey

Hadith #1198 — 1249

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers

Hadith #1250 — 1370

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan

Hadith #1371 — 1400

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Prostration while reciting the Qur'an

Hadith #1401 — 1415

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

Hadith #1416 — 1555

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Hadith #1556 — 1700

The Book of Lost and Found Items

Hadith #1701 — 1720

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Hadith #1721 — 2045

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Hadith #2046 — 2174

Divorce (Kitab Al-Talaq)

Hadith #2175 — 2312

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

Hadith #2313 — 2476

Jihad (Kitab Al-Jihad)

Hadith #2477 — 2787

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

Hadith #2788 — 2843

Game (Kitab Al-Said)

Hadith #2844 — 2861

Wills (Kitab Al-Wasaya)

Hadith #2862 — 2884

Shares of Inheritance (Kitab Al-Fara'id)

Hadith #2885 — 2927

Tribute, Spoils, and Rulership (Kitab Al-Kharaj, Wal-Fai' Wal-Imarah)

Hadith #2928 — 3088

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Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

Hadith #3089 — 3241

Oaths and Vows (Kitab Al-Aiman Wa Al-Nudhur)

Hadith #3242 — 3325

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

Hadith #3326 — 3415

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

Hadith #3416 — 3570

The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)

Hadith #3571 — 3640

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

Hadith #3641 — 3668

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Hadith #3669 — 3735

Foods (Kitab Al-At'imah)

Hadith #3736 — 3854

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

Hadith #3855 — 3903

Divination and Omens (Kitab Al-Kahanah Wa Al-Tatayyur)

Hadith #3904 — 3925

The Book of Manumission of Slaves

Hadith #3926 — 3968

Dialects and Readings of the Qur'an (Kitab Al-Huruf Wa Al-Qira'at)

Hadith #3969 — 4008

Hot Baths (Kitab Al-Hammam)

Hadith #4009 — 4019

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

Hadith #4020 — 4158

Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)

Hadith #4159 — 4213

Signet-Rings (Kitab Al-Khatam)

Hadith #4214 — 4239

Trials and Fierce Battles (Kitab Al-Fitan Wa Al-Malahim)

Hadith #4240 — 4278

The Promised Deliverer (Kitab Al-Mahdi)

Hadith #4279 — 4290

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

Hadith #4291 — 4350

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

Hadith #4351 — 4493

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

Hadith #4494 — 4595

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Hadith #4596 — 4772

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Hadith #4773 — 5274

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