Category:The Book of Funerals Kitab AlJanaiz in Sunan Abu Dawoud

The Book of Funerals Kitab AlJanaiz in Sunan Abu Dawoud Key Points

1. But when a hypocrite becomes ill and is then cured he is like a camel which has been tethered and then let loose by its owners but does not know why they tethered it and why they let it loose . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-28990 Category:Chapter on Sickness Which Expiate For Sins in Sunan Abu Dawoud
2. Take them back put them and where you took them from when their mother should have been with them . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-28990 Category:Chapter on Sickness Which Expiate For Sins in Sunan Abu Dawoud
3. Narrated Muhammad Ibn Khalid AlSulami on his father 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 which he has not attained by his action He afflicts him in his body or his property or his children . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-28990 Category:Chapter on Sickness Which Expiate For Sins in Sunan Abu Dawoud
4. Narrated Abu Mousa 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 . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-28991 Category:Chapter on If A Man Used To Do A Righteous Deed Then Is Interrupted By Sickness Or Travel in Sunan Abu Dawoud
5. 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 for me . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29008 Category:Chapter on What Should Be Said At The Time Of Death in Sunan Abu Dawoud
6. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said There are seven types of martyrdom in addition to being killed in Allah cause one who dies of plague is a martyr one who is drowned is a martyr one who dies of pleurisy is a martyr one who dies of an internal complaint is a martyr one who is burnt to death is a martyr who one is killed by a building falling on him is a martyr and a woman who dies while pregnant is a martyr . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29012 Category:Chapter on Covering The Deceased in Sunan Abu Dawoud
7. Narrated Usamah Bin Zaid A daughter of Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent him message while I and Saad were with him and I think Ubay was also there My son or daughter the narrator is doubtful is dying so come to us . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29025 Category:Chapter on Shrouding A Woman in Sunan Abu Dawoud
8. 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 not scratch the face nor wail nor tear the front of the garments nor dishevel the hair . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29031 Category:Chapter on Moving The Deceased From One Land To Another Which Is Disliked in Sunan Abu Dawoud
9. He said If Safiyah 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 from their bellies . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29035 Category:Chapter on Carrying Fire With The Janazah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
10. Narrated Jabir Bin Abdullah 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 Quran more When one of them was pointed to him he advanced him in the grave saying I shall be witness to all these martyrs on the Day of Judgement . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29037 Category:Chapter on Riding During A Funeral in Sunan Abu Dawoud
11. Narrated Umm Atiyah 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 inform me when you finish . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29042 Category:Chapter on Funeral Prayer For A Child in Sunan Abu Dawoud
12. Narrated Umm Atiyah 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 . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29044 Category:Chapter on Burial At Sunrise And Sunset in Sunan Abu Dawoud
13. The Prophet ﷺ rebuked that man be buried at night until prayer was offered over him except that a man was forced to do that . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29047 Category:Chapter on Saying The Takbir Over The Deceased in Sunan Abu Dawoud
14. Narrated Ali Ibn Abu Talib 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 . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29053 Category:Chapter on If A Gravedigger Finds Bones Should He Leave That Place in Sunan Abu Dawoud
15. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ first gave us lower garment then shirt then head wear then cloak which covers the whole body and then she was shrouded in another garment . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29056 Category:Chapter on How The Deceased Should Be Placed Into His Grave in Sunan Abu Dawoud
16. 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 . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29064 Category:Chapter on Offering The Funeral Prayer At Graves After A While in Sunan Abu Dawoud
17. Narrated Abu Huraira 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 being equivalent of Uhud or one of them being equivalent to Uhud . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29066 Category:Chapter on It Is Disliked To Sit On Graves in Sunan Abu Dawoud
18. Dawud Bin Amir Bin Saad Bin Abi Waqqas said that his father Amir Bin Saad was with Ibn Umar Bin AlKhattab when Khabbab the owner of the closet maqsurah came and said Abdullah b . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29067 Category:Chapter on Walking Between Graves While Wearing Shoes in Sunan Abu Dawoud
19. Narrated AlMughirah Ibn Shubah 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 left keeping near it . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29078 Category:Chapter on Visiting A Sick Dhimmi in Sunan Abu Dawoud
20. He is Yahya AlJabirAbu Dawud said This is from Kufah and Abu Majidah is from Basrah . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29085 Category:Chapter on Supplicating For The Sick Person When Visiting Him in Sunan Abu Dawoud
21. Abu Dawud said I recited to Saeed Bin Yaqub AlTaliqani saying Ibn AlMubarak transmitted to you from Yaqub Bin AlQaqa on the authority of Ata that the Prophet ﷺ prayed over his son Ibrahim when he was seventeen days old . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29086 Category:Chapter on It Is Disliked To Wish For Death in Sunan Abu Dawoud
22. 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 when the sun draws near to setting till it sets or as he said . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29087 Category:Chapter on Sudden Death in Sunan Abu Dawoud
23. When the bier was placed Anas stood and led the funeral prayer over him while I was just behind him and there was no obstruction between me and him . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29094 Category:Chapter on Closing The Eyes Of The Deceased in Sunan Abu Dawoud
24. AlAla Ibn Ziyad asked Abu Hamzah did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say the funeral prayer over the dead as you have done uttering four takbirs Allah is Most Great over her and standing opposite the head of a man and the hips of a woman He replied Yes . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29095 Category:Chapter on Saying Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilaihi Rajiun Verily To Allah We Belong And Unto Him Is Our Return in Sunan Abu Dawoud
25. Thou didst create it Thou didst guide it to Islam Thou hast taken its spirit and Thou knowest best its inner nature and outer aspect . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29096 Category:Chapter on Covering The Deceased in Sunan Abu Dawoud
26. Narrated Abu Huraira 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 male and our female . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29098 Category:Chapter on Sitting Down When Calamity Strikes in Sunan Abu Dawoud
27. O Allah to whomsoever of us Thou givest life grant him life as a believer and whomsoever of us Thou takest in death take him in death as a follower of Islam . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29098 Category:Chapter on Sitting Down When Calamity Strikes in Sunan Abu Dawoud
28. Narrated Wathilah Ibn AlAsqa 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 . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29098 Category:Chapter on Sitting Down When Calamity Strikes in Sunan Abu Dawoud
29. He then carried it and placed it at his head saying I am marking my brother grave with it and I shall bury beside him those of my family who die . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29103 Category:Chapter on Preparing Food For The Family Of The Deceased in Sunan Abu Dawoud
30. Narrated AlBara 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 along with him . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29106 Category:Chapter on How The Deceased Is To Be Washed in Sunan Abu Dawoud
31. Abu Dawud said The narrator Sulaiman said the Ayoub said his two garments Amr said tow garments Ibn Ubaid said that Ayoub said in two garments and Amr said in his two garments . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29134 Category:Chapter on Praying At The Graveside in Sunan Abu Dawoud

Most Postive Sentiment Hadith in The Book of Funerals Kitab AlJanaiz in Sunan Abu Dawoud

Positive Sentiment may indicate a Permissible, Encouraged Actions or Sunnah

1. Narrated Wathilah Ibn AlAsqa: 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. Abdulrahman in his version said: In Thy protection and in Thy nearer presence; so guard him from the trial in the grave and the punishment in Hell. Thou art faithful and worthy of praise. O Allah; forgive him and show him mercy. Thou art the forgiving and the merciful one. Abdulrahman said: On the authority of Marwan Ibn Janah. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29103
2. Narrated Bashir; the Client of the Messenger of Allah: Bashir name in pre-Islamic days was Zahm Ibn Mabad. 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: When I was walking with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ he passed by the graves of the polytheists. He said: They lived before a period of abundant good. He said this three times. He then passed by the graves of Muslims. He said: They received abundant good. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ suddenly saw a man walking in shoes between the graves. He said: O man; wearing the shoes! Woe to thee! Take off thy shoes. So the man looked round ; When he recognized the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ; he took them off and threw them away. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29131
3. Narrated Jabir Bin Abdullah : 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. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29014
4. Narrated Abu Huraira: 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: Hell is certain for him. He then said: Some of you are witness to others. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29134
5. Narrated Umm AlAla: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ visited me while I was sick. He said: Be glad; Umm AlAla for Allah removes the sins of a Muslim for his illness as fire removes the dross of gold and silver. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-28993
6. 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. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29007
7. 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 not scratch the face; nor wail; nor tear the front of the garments nor dishevel the hair. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29032
8. Narrated Aisha: I said: Messenger of Allah; I know the severest verse in the Quran. He asked: What is that verse. Aishah? She replied: Allah words: If anyone does evil; he will be requited for it. He said: Do you know Aisha; that when a believer is afflicted with a calamity or a thorn; it serves as an atonement for his evil deed. He who is called to account will be punished. She said: Does Allah not say: He truly will recieve an easy reckoning. He said: This is the presentation; Aishah. If anyone criticized in reckoning; he will be punished.Abu Dawud said: This is the version of Ibn Bashshar. He said: Ibn Abi Mulaikah narrated to us. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-28994
9. 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 Quranic verse We belong to Allah and to Him do we return and he said: We have been dominated against you; AburRabi. Then the women cried and wept; and Ibn Atik began to silence them. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Leave them; when the divine decree is made; no woman should weep. They the people asked: What is necessary happening; Messenger of Allah? He replied: Death. His daughter said: I hope you will be a martyr; for you have completed your preparations for jihad. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Allah Most High gave him a reward according to his intentions. What do you consider martyrdom? They said: Being killed in the cause of Allah. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: There are seven types of martyrdom in addition to being killed in Allah cause: one who dies of plague is a martyr; one who is drowned is a martyr; one who dies of pleurisy is a martyr; one who dies of an internal complaint is a martyr; one who is burnt to death is a martyr; who one is killed by a building falling on him is a martyr; and a woman who dies while pregnant is a martyr. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29012

Most Negative Sentiment Hadith in The Book of Funerals Kitab AlJanaiz in Sunan Abu Dawoud

Negative Sentiment may indicate a Forbidden, Disliked, or Discouraged Actions

1. 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. She did not find doorkeepers at his gate. She said: I did not recognize you; Messenger of Allah. He said: Endurance is shown only at a first blow. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29025
2. Narrated Ibn Abi Laila: Zaid Bin 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 Dawud said: I remember the tradition of Ibn AlMuthanna in a more guarded way. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29098
3. Narrated Usamah Bin Zaid: A daughter of Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent him message while I and Saad were with him and I think Ubay was also there: My son or daughter the narrator is doubtful is dying; so come to us. He sent her greeting; saying at the same time: Say! What Allah has been taken belongs to Him; what He has given belongs to Him ; and He has appointed time for everything. She then sent a message adjuring him to come to her. So he came to her and the child who was on the point of death was placed in the hearts of those whom He wished. Allah shows compassion only to those of His servants who are compassionate. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29026
4. Narrated Aisha; Ummul Muminin: 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 themselves; Allah cast slumber over them until every one of them had put his chin on his chest. Then a speaker spoke from a side of the house; and they did not know who he was: Wash the Prophet ﷺ while his clothes are on him. So they stood round the Prophet ﷺ and washed him while he had his shirt on him. They poured water on his shirt; and rubbed him with his shirt and not with their hands. Aisha used to say: If I had known beforehand about my affair what I found out later; none would have washed him except his wives. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29042
5. Narrated Abu Huraira: Banu AlHarith Bin Amir Bin Nawfal bought Khubaib. Khubaib killed AlHarith Bin 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 AlHarith to shave his pubes. She let it to him. A small child of her crept to him while she was inattentive. When she same; she found him alone and the child was on this thigh and the razor was in his hand. She was terrified and he realized its effect on her. He said: Do you fear that I shall kill him ? I am not going to do that.Abu Dawud said: Shuaib Bin Abi Hamzah transmitted this narrative from AlZuhri. He said: Ubaid Allah Bin Ayash told me that the daughter of AlHarith told him that when they gathered for killing him; he borrowed a razor from her to shave his pubes. She lent it to him. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29013
6. Narrated Amir AlRam: 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 spread for him and he was sitting on it. His Companions were gathered around him. I sat with them. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ mentioned illness and said: When a believer is afflicted by illness and Allah cures him of it; it serves as an atonement for his previous sins and a warning to him for the future. But when a hypocrite becomes ill and is then cured; he is like a camel which has been tethered and then let loose by its owners; but does not know why they tethered it and why they let it loose. A man from among those around him asked: Messenger of Allah; what are illnesses? I swear by Allah; I never fell ill. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Get up and leave us. You do not belong to our number. When we were with him; a man came to him. He had a sheet of cloth and something in his hand. He turned his attention to him and said: Messenger of Allah; when I saw you; I turned towards you. I saw a group of trees and heard the sound of fledglings. I took them and put them in my garment. Their mother then came and began to hover round my head. I showed them to her; and she fell on them. I wrapped them with my garment. They are now with me. He said: Put them away from you. So I put them away; but their mother stayed with them. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to his companions: Are you surprised at the affection of the mother for her young? They said: Yes; Messenger of Allah. He said: I swear by Him Who has sent me with the Truth; Allah is more affectionate to His servants than a mother to her young ones. Take them back put them and where you took them from when their mother should have been with them. So he took them back. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-28990
7. Narrated Maaqil Ibn Yasar: The Prophet ﷺ said: Recite Surah Ya-Sin over your dying men. This is the version of Ibn AlAla SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29022
8. A similar tradition has been transmitted by Aisha 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 was brought but they returned it and did not shroud him in it. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29053
9. The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu Huraira through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.Abu Dawud said: This has been abrogated. When Ahmad Bin Hanbal was asked about a man taking a bath after his washing the dead; I heard him say: Ablution is sufficient for him.Abu Dawud said: The narrator Abu Salih made a mention of the narrator Ishaq; the client of Zaidah between him and Abu Huraira. He said: The tradition of mousab is weak. It contains many things that are not practised. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29063
10. 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 we took them back. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-29066

Notables Mentioned in The Book of Funerals Kitab AlJanaiz in Sunan Abu Dawoud

Narrators Mentioned in The Book of Funerals Kitab AlJanaiz in Sunan Abu Dawoud