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Book of Illness, Funerals, and Graves

Reasons for standing upon seeing the deceased and its ruling

How long should funeral followers not sit?

Fever in this world is compensation for Hellfire

Illness and trials are expiation for sins

When do trials become expiation?

Virtue of patience over illness

Illness can be reward or punishment

Various causes expiate a believer’s sins

Trials raise ranks

Exemption from reckoning due to trials

Prohibition of speaking ill of illness

Every harm is due to some sin

Lover of the Prophet is tested

Prophets and righteous face severe trials

Great reward for the tested

Paradise for loss of eyesight, but...

Greatest loss for the Ummah is the Prophet’s death

Fever was confined to Madinah

Marking a specific grave

Sprinkling water on the grave

Punishment of the grave

Even Sa’d was not spared from grave’s squeeze, nor was a child

Believer remains steadfast in the grave

Spaciousness of the believer’s grave

Questioning by Munkar and Nakir after burial

State of righteous and wicked deceased

Scenes of believer’s and disbeliever’s death; souls’ acquaintance in Barzakh

How souls of believer and disbeliever depart

Prompting the dying to say “La ilaha illallah”

Closing the eyes of the deceased and speaking good at that time

Supplication when visiting the sick

Reward for visiting the sick

How a person reaches their destined place of death

Reward for praising Allah and saying “Inna lillah” at son’s death

Hadiths about ruqyah

Reciting Fatiha for ruqyah and taking payment

Giving a good shroud and its reason

Remembering death in prayer

Burying a polytheist

Forms of conveying reward to the deceased

Sixty-year-old will have no excuse

Ages of the Prophet’s Ummah

Evil eye can cause death

Who is the wise believer?

Asking for health and well-being

The Prophet was compassionate with his family

Pouring water on feverish patient

Ordinary righteous will also intercede

Children of the Ummah are witnesses to good or bad

Is it allowed to initiate with “Alaikum as-salam”?

The Prophet wept over the deceased

Is the deceased punished due to family’s wailing?

Sin of wailing, face-slapping, and tearing clothes

Funeral prayer after three days for one deceased

Healing in black seed

Sitting on graves is prohibited

Legitimacy of visiting the Prophet’s grave

The Prophet prayed for the dead in the graveyard

Announcing Hell to a disbeliever’s grave

Glad tidings of Paradise for five good deeds in a day

Reason for not criticizing the Companions

Cupping

Flute and destructive sounds are accursed

All affairs of a believer are good

Departure of soul is not subject to anyone’s preference

Stealing shroud is an accursed act

Camel’s milk and urine as medicine

Black Stone descended from Paradise, but why did its blessings end?

Intercession for the deceased by forty believers is accepted

Reward for offering condolences

Deceased children cause parents’ forgiveness

Example of a man’s wealth, family, and deeds

Cleaning hands before sleep

Ruling on funeral prayer in mosque

Ruling on women attending funeral prayer

Prohibition of speaking ill of the dead

Virtue of concealing the deceased’s faults and shrouding

Everyone will taste death, because...

Three things follow the deceased, but...