سنن ابن ماجه
Ibn Majah
كتاب الجنائزChapters: Regarding Funerals
بَابُ : مَا جَاءَ فِي الدُّعَاءِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ عَلَى الْجِنَازَةِChapter: What was narrated concerning supplication during the funeral prayer
Hadith 1499
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ ، حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ جَنَاحٍ ، حَدَّثَنِي يُونُسُ بْنُ مَيْسَرَةَ بْنِ حَلْبَسٍ ، عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ ، قَالَ : صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ ، فَأَسْمَعُهُ يَقُولُ : " اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّ فُلَانَ بْنَ فُلَانٍ فِي ذِمَّتِكَ وَحَبْلِ جِوَارِكَ ، فَقِهِ مِنْ فِتْنَةِ الْقَبْرِ ، وَعَذَابِ النَّارِ ، وَأَنْتَ أَهْلُ الْوَفَاءِ وَالْحَقِّ ، فَاغْفِرْ لَهُ وَارْحَمْهُ إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ " .
´It was narrated that Wathilah bin Asqa’ said:` “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) offered the funeral prayer for a man among the Muslims and I heard him say: ‘O Allah, so-and-so the son of so-and-so is in Your case and under Your protection. Protect him from the trial of the grave and the torment of the Fire, for You are the One Who keeps the promise and You are the Truth. Forgive him and have mercy on him, for You are the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
Related hadith on this topic
Explanation & Benefits
Al-Sheikh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amanpuri
Benefits and Issues:
Some people add the following to the salutation (durood) in the funeral prayer:
«كما صليت وسلمت وباركت ورحمت .»
This is completely impermissible because the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) did not teach this. Later, someone fabricated these words by introducing an addition into the religion.
Some people add the following to the salutation (durood) in the funeral prayer:
«كما صليت وسلمت وباركت ورحمت .»
This is completely impermissible because the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) did not teach this. Later, someone fabricated these words by introducing an addition into the religion.
Source: Monthly Magazine al-Sunnah Jhelum, Issues 61-66, Page: 250
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefits and Issues:
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The punishment of the grave is a reality.
That is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam supplicated for protection from the punishment of the grave for the deceased.
However, this pertains to the unseen realm (al-ghayb).
Just as we believe in many other things informed to us by Allah and His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam without seeing them,
in the same way, we also believe in the punishment of the grave,
because it is beyond the grasp of the senses of living people.
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The punishment of the grave can occur due to sins other than disbelief (kufr) and polytheism (shirk).
For example, not protecting the body and clothes from urine, and tale-bearing (namimah), as when the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam heard two persons being punished in their graves, he said: “Both of them are being punished, and they are not being punished for something major (i.e., it was not a sin that was very difficult to avoid).
Yes, one of them did not protect himself from his urine,
and the other used to go about spreading tales (namimah), (telling the words of one to another to cause discord between them).” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Ablution (wudu), Chapter: Of the major sins is not protecting oneself from urine, Hadith: 216)
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It is also understood from this hadith that the aforementioned supplication was recited aloud during the funeral prayer.
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The punishment of the grave is a reality.
That is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam supplicated for protection from the punishment of the grave for the deceased.
However, this pertains to the unseen realm (al-ghayb).
Just as we believe in many other things informed to us by Allah and His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam without seeing them,
in the same way, we also believe in the punishment of the grave,
because it is beyond the grasp of the senses of living people.
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The punishment of the grave can occur due to sins other than disbelief (kufr) and polytheism (shirk).
For example, not protecting the body and clothes from urine, and tale-bearing (namimah), as when the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam heard two persons being punished in their graves, he said: “Both of them are being punished, and they are not being punished for something major (i.e., it was not a sin that was very difficult to avoid).
Yes, one of them did not protect himself from his urine,
and the other used to go about spreading tales (namimah), (telling the words of one to another to cause discord between them).” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Ablution (wudu), Chapter: Of the major sins is not protecting oneself from urine, Hadith: 216)
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It is also understood from this hadith that the aforementioned supplication was recited aloud during the funeral prayer.
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 1499
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
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This hadith is also evidence that the supplication (du'a) in the funeral prayer (janazah) was recited aloud.
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In this supplication, the name of the deceased and his father can also be mentioned.
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It is necessary to memorize the various supplications of the funeral prayer (janazah) and to teach them to children, so that the right of sincerely supplicating for the deceased can be fulfilled.
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These supplications are accepted at that time when both the deceased himself and the one performing the funeral prayer are truly Muslims.
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This hadith is also evidence that the supplication (du'a) in the funeral prayer (janazah) was recited aloud.
➋
In this supplication, the name of the deceased and his father can also be mentioned.
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It is necessary to memorize the various supplications of the funeral prayer (janazah) and to teach them to children, so that the right of sincerely supplicating for the deceased can be fulfilled.
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These supplications are accepted at that time when both the deceased himself and the one performing the funeral prayer are truly Muslims.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 3202
