Funeral Prayer and Burial
463 questions
Does the reward for the funeral prayer multiply with the number of deceased, or does the reward remain as if one prayed over a single person?
Is informing the relatives and friends of the deceased of his death so that they may gather to pray for him considered part of the forbidden lamentation (an-na'i) or is it permissible?
Is attending the funeral prayer for deceased employees or their relatives among the recommended acts, or is it impermissible?
Is it permissible to pray behind an imam who performed the funeral prayer over an atheist, while knowing of his atheism?
Do the hadiths mentioned regarding abandoning prayer indicate major disbelief that expels one from Islam, or minor disbelief, or disbelief that is less than disbelief? And is minor disbelief intended by them? And does abandoning the 'Asr prayer or a single prayer invalidate good deeds and render its perpetrator an apostate? And is it permissible to adopt the view of the three imams concerning the non-disbelief of one who abandons prayer and to pray over him?
Is it permissible for Muslims to participate in the funeral prayer and burial of a Muslim woman, if her Buddhist relatives have performed Buddhist rituals for her for a week, and then she is sent to the mosque for washing and prayer, on the condition that she be buried in a coffin in the Buddhist manner?
Is it permissible to dedicate a wife's will to her husband, such that it includes personal matters in addition to the division of the inheritance, especially in the absence of children and with both parents deceased?
What is the ruling on speaking, laughing, and raising one's voice near funerals?
Is the opening supplication prescribed in the funeral prayer?
What deeds illuminate a Muslim's grave?
What is the origin of the forty-day memorial, and is there any legitimate religious evidence for the permissibility of eulogizing?
Is it permissible to hasten with the funeral procession such that some people do not catch up with it?
What are the matters that do not interrupt the circumambulation and do not necessitate its recommencement?
Is it recommended to make the rows for the funeral prayer three, and are they equal in virtue?
Is it permissible to pray for the absent on every deceased person?
Is the supplication authentically reported from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, regarding the funeral prayer obligatory, or is it permissible to use other supplications?
What is the correct way to act when someone dies in front of you? Should one abandon congregational prayers and everything else to hasten their preparation and the distribution of their inheritance, and how can their family be informed of their death without causing them excessive grief?
Which is better: to pray over the deceased at the graveyard before burial or after, in the event that the funeral prayer was not performed at the mosque?
Is one who dies by electric shock considered a martyr, and will the large number of people praying for him intercede for him on the Day of Resurrection?
Is it legislated to stand to the right of the Imam in the Funeral Prayer?
Is transporting the deceased father of a friend from outside Mecca to Mecca, praying over him, and burying him there, three hours after his death, considered harming the deceased or a forbidden act?
Is there anything that can be done for a father-in-law who died 20 years ago and was not prayed over [the Janazah prayer]?
Is the funeral prayer offered for a devout woman who did not marry after the death of her first husband?
What is the ruling on reciting Al-Fatihah in the funeral prayer?