Women going out with a funeral: those who disliked it

Masruq said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went out with a funeral which a woman was accompanying, and he did not move away until she was hidden from view among the houses.

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Women should not come behind (my funeral)."

Ibrahim said: When they (the Companions) set out with a funeral, they would close the door on the women.

Muhammad bin al-Muntashir said: Masruq would not pray over a funeral that had women with it.

Musa bin Abdullah bin Yazid said: When my father was in a house in which there was a funeral, he would order the door to be opened, and the visitors would come in. When the funeral was taken out, he would order the door of the house to be closed, so that women would not come with the funeral.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "We have been forbidden to walk with a funeral in which there is the sound of loud wailing."

Al-Hasan and Muhammad disliked that women should go with funerals.

Suwayd said: "It is not proper for a woman to go out of the door of the house with the funeral."

Amr bin Qays said: We were at a funeral, and Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) was also at that funeral. He saw some women in the funeral and drove them away.

Abdullah bin Murrah said: I saw Masruq throwing dust in the faces of the women at a funeral, saying to them: "Go back." If they went back, he would take part in the funeral; otherwise he would go back and not take part in it.

Sayyidah Umm Atiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: We were forbidden from following funerals, but it was not made binding and obligatory upon us.