Sunan Ibn Majah: Chapters Regarding Funerals

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning visiting the sick

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the reward of one who visits a sick person

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning urging the dying person to say La ilaha illallah

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning what is to be said to the sick person when death approaches

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the believer being rewarded for the agony of death

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning closing the eyes of the deceased

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning kissing the deceased

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning washing the deceased

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning a man washing his wife and a woman washing her husband

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the washing of the Prophet (SAW)

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the shrouding of the Prophet (saws)

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning what is recommended in shrouding

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning looking at the deceased when he has been wrapped in his shroud

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the prohibition of making public death announcements

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning attending funerals

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning walking ahead of the funeral (procession)

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the prohibition of wearing mourning dress during the funeral procession

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Chapter: The funeral should not be delayed once the bier is ready, and the funeral procession should not be followed with fire

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning one for whom the funeral prayer is offered by a group of Muslims

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning praising the deceased

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Chapter: Where should the Imam stand when he prays over the body?

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning recitation of Qur’an in the funeral prayer

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning supplication during the funeral prayer

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning saying four takbir in the funeral prayer

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning one who says the takbir five times

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning offering the funeral prayer for a child

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the funeral prayer offered for the son of the Messenger of Allah (SAW) and the report of his death

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the funeral prayer for the martyrs and their burial

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning offering the funeral prayer in the mosque

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the times when the funeral prayer should not be offered and the deceased should not be buried

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Chapter: Prayer for the people of the Qiblah

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Chapter: Offering the funeral prayer at the grave

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the prayers for Najashi

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the reward for the one who offers the funeral prayer and the one who waits until the burial

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning standing up for the funeral (procession)

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning what is to be said when entering the graveyard

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning sitting in the graveyards

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning placing the deceased in the grave

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the niche-grave being recommended

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the ditch-grave

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning digging the grave

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning markers on graves

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the prohibition of building over graves, plastering over them and writing on them

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning scattering earth in the grave

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the prohibition of walking or sitting on graves

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning taking off one’s shoes in the graveyard

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning visiting the graves

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning visiting the graves of the idolaters

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the prohibition of women visiting the graves

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning women following the funeral (procession)

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the prohibition of wailing

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the prohibition of striking one’s cheeks and tearing one’s garment

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning weeping for the deceased

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the deceased being punished for the wailing over him

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning bearing calamity with patience

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the reward for one who consoles a person afflicted by calamity

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the reward of one who (loses) his child

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning one who suffers from a miscarriage

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the food that is sent to the family of the deceased

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the prohibition of gathering with the family of the deceased and preparing food

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning one who dies in a strange land

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning one who dies from a sickness

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Chapter: The prohibition of breaking the bones of the deceased

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the sickness of the Messenger of Allah (SAW)

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Chapter: What was narrated concerning the death and burial of the Prophet (SAW)