Funeral Prayer and Burial
463 questions
What is the legal ruling on who has the right to lead the funeral prayer: the legal guardian son or the mosque's imam, and does the ruling differ if the deceased bequeathed that a specific person pray over them?
Does supplication for the deceased reach them from any place, and what is the difference between supplicating at the grave and supplicating for them in another place?
Is there a noble Hadith from the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) clarifying the reward for one who throws dust on the deceased when burying them?
Will the son be sinful for burying his deceased father in cemeteries other than the one his father had stipulated, due to the necessity of time constraints, the unavailability of the stipulated cemetery's papers, and the impossibility of waiting for the other son?
What are a Muslim's rights over his Muslim brother after his death?
Is it permissible for the Imam to say the Taslim immediately after the fourth Takbir in the funeral prayer, knowing that what comes after the fourth Takbir is a general supplication for the living and the deceased? And is it obligatory for the congregant to say two Taslims if the Imam says two, even though the congregant's madhhab dictates a single Taslim in the funeral prayer?
Is it permissible to repeat the funeral prayer for an envious person, and is it permissible for a person to ask someone to repeat the prayer for him?
What is the ruling on the cloth band remaining around the mouth of the deceased after burial, which was placed to prevent his mouth from opening at the time of death?
What is the ruling on fearing to complete a marriage due to deaths that occurred during the engagement period, and how should one act regarding that?
Is it permissible for a worshiper in the funeral prayer to consider the takbir about which he doubted to be the fourth, and then say the taslim, acting upon the fatwa "whoever doubts excessively is not required to rectify it"? And what must he do if this action is incorrect?
Is it permissible to seek forgiveness for the deceased? Is there a specific wording for doing so on behalf of others? And is it permissible to seek forgiveness for the living and for a large number of people all at once?
What is the ruling on one who says that the Messenger, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, is the one who wrote the Qur’an, and that he was not illiterate but was wealthy? And is it permissible to beat him and expel him from the house?
What is the ruling regarding burying the deceased in a cemetery other than the one designated for their burial, due to the impossibility of opening the grave because of a recent death in the same cemetery?
Is it permissible to pray over a sorcerer upon his death?
What is the Sharia ruling regarding a girl who loved a young man, but her family rejected him without a valid Sharia reason, and then she started having a phone (sexual) relationship with another young man, claiming that she cannot be with anyone other than her first beloved and that she still needs sex?
ما حكم الصلاة في مسجد يضم قبرًا؟
Is the funeral prayer an individual obligation upon those present at the cemetery?
Is someone who suffered from severe depression and refused to eat or drink until they died considered a suicide victim, and is it permissible to pray for them?
Is it permissible to offer the funeral prayer for the insane: the mentally deranged?
What is the hadith that indicates haste is from Satan except in three things?
Who was the first of the Prophet's wives, may God's prayers and peace be upon him, to die after his passing?
Is it permissible to say "May our Lord have mercy on him" for an innovator?
What is the ruling on audibly saying the Takbir in the funeral prayer in Morocco?
What is the ruling on burning fetuses preserved in a preservative that prevents their decomposition, or burying them very deep for fear of stray dogs? And is it obligatory to pray over them or wash them upon burial?