The dying and the dead: what is done at the bedside, the washing, shrouding, prayer and burial, and the reports on what follows.
Chapters
- 1. Causes of Death and that Believing People May Die by any Manner of Dying 10 hadith
- 2. Difficulty in Dying (If Dying Becomes Difficult and the Agony of Death Intense) 5 hadith
- 3. Facing the Dying Person Toward Qiblah 3 hadith
- 4. A Believing Person Is Not Caused to Die Against His Will 2 hadith
- 5. Things that Believers and Unbelievers See in Dying Conditions 16 hadith
- 6. Taking out of the Souls of Believing and Unbelievers 3 hadith
- 7. Burial Should Take Place Immediately 2 hadith
- 8. Rare Ahadith 1 hadith
- 9. Women during Hayd Nurse a Patient (The following chapters are about rules of washing a dead body for burial, shrouding and other matters of burial, and are best explained in the form of fatwa. Consult current fatwa about them.) 1 hadith
- 10. Washing a Dead Body 6 hadith
- 11. Hunut (Rubbing Camphor) on a Dead Body and Shrouding 16 hadith
- 12. The Reward for a Person Suffering from Illness 10 hadith
- 13. Shrouding a Deceased Women 3 hadith
- 14. Undesirability of Perfuming the Shroud or Warming Water for Washing Dead Bodies 4 hadith
- 15. The Desirable Pieces of Shroud and the Undesirable Ones 12 hadith
- 16. The Amount of Water Needed for Ghusl (bath) of a Deceased Person 5 hadith
- 17. The Two Fresh Al-Jaridah (Twigs of Palm Tree) 12 hadith
- 18. Persons Dead Without Shower Due to Carnal Relations Hayd or Child Birth Reasons 3 hadith
- 19. Chapter 26- Dead Woman with a Baby Moving Inside Her 3 hadith
- 20. Cutting of Nails and Hairs of Dead Person Undesirable 4 hadith
- 21. Things Coming Out of a Dead Body after Ghusl (bath) 3 hadith
- 22. Washing of Persons of opposite Gender 13 hadith
- 23. Another Section on the Same Subject 6 hadith
- 24. The Age of Children during Which Women Can Wash Their Bodies 1 hadith
- 25. The Ghusl (bath) Necessary for Touching a Dead Body and Washing or Touching When the Body Is Still Warm or Has Become Cold 8 hadith
- 26. Reason behind Washing a Dead Body for Burial and After Sexual Activities 3 hadith
- 27. The Reward for Washing a Believer for Burial 4 hadith
- 28. The Reward for Shrouding the Body of a Believing Person 1 hadith
- 29. The Reward for One who Prepares the Grave for a Believing Person 1 hadith
- 30. The Required Depth of a Grave, the form of the Grave and Prepared Lahad for the Messenger of Allah 4 hadith
- 31. Informing People to Attend a Funeral Service 3 hadith
- 32. Expressions to Pronounce on Seeing a Dead Person 3 hadith
- 33. The Sunnah to Carry a Dead Body 4 hadith
- 34. The Limits of Complaints 1 hadith
- 35. Walking Along with Procession for the Dead Body 7 hadith
- 36. It Is Not Desirable to Ride in Funeral Procession 2 hadith
- 37. One Who Joins a Funeral Procession and then Returns 3 hadith
- 38. The Reward for Walking in a Funeral Procession 8 hadith
- 39. The Reward for Lifting up the Coffin of a Dead Body 3 hadith
- 40. The Dead Bodies of Men, Women, Children and Slaves (For such Ahadith about an act or issue of the five categories of deeds of the quality of Wujub (Obligatory), Hurmat (Prohibited), Istihbab (Preference), Kirahat (Detestability) or Ibahah (Permissibility) one must consult fatwas of one’s Mujtahid.) 6 hadith
- 41. Rare Ahadith 3 hadith
- 42. The Place Where the Person Performing Salah (Prayer) for a DeadBody Stands 2 hadith
- 43. The Most Preferred Person to Perform Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person 5 hadith
- 44. Performing Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person without Wudu’ 5 hadith
- 45. A Patient’s Giving Permission to His Visitors 3 hadith
- 46. Women’s Performing Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person 5 hadith
- 47. The Time of Performing Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person 2 hadith
- 48. Reason for Five Takbir in Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person 5 hadith
- 49. Salah (Prayer) for a Person in a Masjid 1 hadith
- 50. Salah (Prayer) for a Believer’s Dead Body, Takbir and Du’a 6 hadith
- 51. There is No Particular Du’a or Salam in Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Body 3 hadith
- 52. Saying More Than Five Takbir in Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person 3 hadith
- 53. Salah (Prayer) For a Person of Weak Understanding of Faith and One Who Does Not Know the Truth 6 hadith
- 54. Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person Hostile to ’A’immah 7 hadith
- 55. Arrival of Another Dead Body During Salah (Prayer) for One Already There 1 hadith
- 56. How Often a Patient Should Be Visited, How Long the Duration of Visitation Should Be and Complete Visit 6 hadith
- 57. Placing the Dead Body in front of the Grave 2 hadith
- 58. Rare Ahadith 2 hadith
- 59. Entering and Coming out of the Grave 5 hadith
- 60. People Who Should and Those Who Should Not Enter a Grave 8 hadith
- 61. Preparation for Placing a Deceased in the Grave 11 hadith
- 62. Preparing Lahad and the Materials Needed (Ch. 64 is best explained by fatwa.) 2 hadith
- 63. Who Should Fill Soil in the Grave and How 5 hadith
- 64. Preparing Four Corners of the Grave and Sprinkling Water on It 11 hadith
- 65. Using Clay or Lime over the Grave 4 hadith
- 66. The Soil Where a Person Is Buried 2 hadith
- 67. The Limit of a Sudden Death 2 hadith
- 68. Condolences and the Obligations of the People of the Deceased 10 hadith
- 69. The Reward for One Who Offers Condolences to a Saddened Person 2 hadith
- 70. A Woman Dies with Baby Moving Inside (The following chapters are best explained by fatwa, please consult fatwa.) 2 hadith
- 71. Ghusl (bath) for Children and Salah (Prayer) for Them 8 hadith
- 72. People Drowned or Struck Dead 6 hadith
- 73. People Killed 5 hadith
- 74. People Consumed By Beasts, Birds, Pieces of Bodies of Those Killed or Burnt 7 hadith
- 75. People Who Die in Ships and Cannot Be Brought Ashore or Are Naked 4 hadith
- 76. Salah (Prayer) for Persons Crucified, Stoned or Dead for Capital Punishment 3 hadith
- 77. The Obligations of the Neighbors toward the People of the Deceased and Mourning Ceremonies 6 hadith
- 78. The Virtue (Reward) of Visiting a Patient 10 hadith
- 79. Suffering Due to the Death of a Son 10 hadith
- 80. Offering Condolences and Solace 8 hadith
- 81. Patience, Impatience and to Acknowledge (the Reality of) Death 14 hadith
- 82. The Reward for offering Condolences 4 hadith
- 83. About offering Solace 3 hadith
- 84. Visiting of the Graves 10 hadith
- 85. Dead People Visit Their Families 5 hadith
- 86. A Dying Person Observes His Properties, Children and Deeds Just Before His Death 4 hadith
- 87. Interrogations in the Grave - Who Is Interrogated and Who Is Not 18 hadith
- 88. The Statements that Graves Make Every Day 3 hadith
- 89. Dictations to a Dying Person 10 hadith
- 90. About the Spirits (Souls) of the Believers 2 hadith
- 91. Another one of the Chapters about the Souls of the Believing People 7 hadith
- 92. About the Souls (spirits) of the Unbelievers 5 hadith
- 93. Worldly Garden 2 hadith
- 94. The Children 7 hadith
- 95. The Rare Ahadith 46 hadith