Ahadith

Hadith number: 929

Kitāb ʿIyādat al-Marīḍ wa Tashyīʿ al-Mayyit waṣ-Ṣalāh ʿalayhi wa Ḥuḍūr Dafnihi

Ibn Umar relates that the Holy Prophet visited Sa‘ad ibn Ubadah in his illness. He was accompanied by Abdur Rahman ibn Auf, Sa‘ad ibn Abi Waggas and Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud. The Holy Prophet on seeing Sa‘ad began to weep and his companions also wept. He told them: Listen well. Allah does" not punish the shedding of tears or the grief of the heart, but punishes or forgives the utterances of this; and he pointed to his tongue (Bokhari and Muslim).

Hadith number: 931

Kitāb ʿIyādat al-Marīḍ wa Tashyīʿ al-Mayyit waṣ-Ṣalāh ʿalayhi wa Ḥuḍūr Dafnihi

Anas relates that the Holy Prophet came to his son Ibrahim when he was in extremity and his eyes began to run, whereupon Abdur Rahman ibn Auf exclaimed: Messenger of Allah, even you? The Holy Prophet said: Ibn Auf, this is but the tenderness of the heart. He wept again and said: The eye sheds tears and the heart is sorrowful, but we utter only that which should please our Lord. We are indeed grieved, Ibrahim, by thy parting (Bokhari).

Hadith number: 932

Kitāb ʿIyādat al-Marīḍ wa Tashyīʿ al-Mayyit waṣ-Ṣalāh ʿalayhi wa Ḥuḍūr Dafnihi

Abi Rafi’ Aslam, freedman of the Holy Prophet, relates that the Holy Prophet said: He who washes a dead body and safeguards his knowledge of it is forgiven by Allah forty times (Hakim).

Hadith number: 933

Kitāb ʿIyādat al-Marīḍ wa Tashyīʿ al-Mayyit waṣ-Ṣalāh ʿalayhi wa Ḥuḍūr Dafnihi

Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud relates that he recalls as if he is looking at the Holy Prophet when he mentioned the case of a Prophet who was beaten and injured so severely by his people that he wiped away the blood from his face while supplicating: Allah, forgive my people, for they know not (Bokhari and Muslim).

Hadith number: 934

Kitāb ʿIyādat al-Marīḍ wa Tashyīʿ al-Mayyit waṣ-Ṣalāh ʿalayhi wa Ḥuḍūr Dafnihi

Abu Sa‘id and Abu Hurairah relate that the Holy Prophet said: Whatever trouble, illness, anxiety, grief, hurt or sorrow afflicts a Muslim, even the pricking of a thorn, but Allah removes in its stead some of his defaults (Bokhari and Muslim).

Hadith number: 935

Kitāb ʿIyādat al-Marīḍ wa Tashyīʿ al-Mayyit waṣ-Ṣalāh ʿalayhi wa Ḥuḍūr Dafnihi

Umm Atiyyah relates: We were forbidden to follow funerals but the prohibition was not harsh (Bokhari and Muslim),

Hadith number: 936

Kitāb ʿIyādat al-Marīḍ wa Tashyīʿ al-Mayyit waṣ-Ṣalāh ʿalayhi wa Ḥuḍūr Dafnihi

Ayesha relates that the Holy Prophet said: If as many as a hundred Muslims should participate in the funeral service of a person who dies, all of them interceding for him, their intercession would be granted (Muslim).

Hadith number: 937

Kitāb ʿIyādat al-Marīḍ wa Tashyīʿ al-Mayyit waṣ-Ṣalāh ʿalayhi wa Ḥuḍūr Dafnihi

Ibn Abbas relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say: If a Muslim dies and forty people who do not associate aught with Allah, join in the funeral prayers over him, Allah accepts their intercession on his behalf (Muslim).