INJUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE FUNERAL PRAYER

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INJUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE FUNERAL PRAYER
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FARD KIFAAYAH (A Communal Duty)

• The performance if salaatul-janaazah (the funeral
  prayer) is considered fard kifaayah. If someone
  is buried without it being performed, the whole
  community is held responsible, but as long as
  some gather and perform it obligation is removed
  from the community as a whole.

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IN CONGREGATION

• Salaatul-janaazah, like the five daily compulsory
  prayers, must be performed in congregation. This
  was the only way that the Prophet (PBUH) and his
  companion did it. The Prophet (PBUH) was also
  reported to have said,
• Pray as you saw me pray.
• (Sahih Al-Bukhari, vol. 1, p.345, no.604)

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THREE ROWS

• It is preferable that those behind the imaam form
  at least three rows, as this was the Sunnah when
  the number of worshippers was insufficient to
  fill the masjid. Aboo Umaamah reported that the
  Holy Prophet (PBUH) led the salaah for the dead
  along with seven people and he made them form
  three rows, two of which had two people in them.

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TWO MEN

• If there is only one man besides the imaam, he
  should pray behind the imaam and not besides him
  as he would in the case of all other salaahs.

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THE IMAAM

• The ameer or his assistant has more right to lead
  the funeral prayer than the deceaseds walee. And
  if both of them are not present, then the one who
  has memorized the most Quraan should lead the
  funeral prayer, even if he is a child.

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LOCATION OF THE PRAYER Salaatul-jannazah can be
prayed in the masjid or out side the masjid but
it is forbidden to say it between
graves.   POSITION OF THE IMAAM The imaam should
stand, facing the qiblah, behind the head of the
dead man and behind the middle of the dead woman.
NUNMBER OF TAKBEERS It is possible to do four,
five, six, seven or nine takbeers, as all of them
are recorded in authentic hadeeths and acts of
the Prophets (PBUH) companions.
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RAISING THE HANDS It is permissible to either
raise ones hands with each takbeer, or to do so
only for the first takbeer. RECITATION Immediatel
y after the first takbeer, the chapter
al-Faatihah should be read All praise is for
Allah, the Rabb of the worlds. The Compassionate,
the Merciful. Master of the Day of Judgment. You
Alone we worship and You Alone we call on for
help. Guide us to The Right Way. The Way of those
whom You have favored not of those who have
earned Your wrath, or of those who have lost The
Way.  
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SURAH FATIHA
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PRAYER FOR THE PROPHET (PBUH)

• Immediately after the second takbeer, the prayer
  for the Prophet (PBUH) should be maded according
  to one of the various patterns used in regular
  salaah. Aboo Umaamah in describing the funereal
  prayer went on to say, Then the prayer for the
  Prophet (PBUH) should be made.
• O Allah, praise Muhammad (PBUH) and his family
  as you praised Ibraaheem and his family. Verily
  you are the Most Praised and Glorious. O Allah
  bless Muhammad (PBUH) and his family as you have
  blessed Ibraaheem and his family. Verily you are
  the Most Praised and Glorious.

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DUROOD IBRAHIMI

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DUAA FOR THE DEAD

• After each of the remaining two or more takbeers,
  sincere prayers should be made for the dead,
  their relatives and the living. Nothing from the
  Quraan should be recited following these
  remaining takbeers. The Prophet (PBUH) was quoted
  as saying,
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• When you make funereal prayers for the dead,
  make sincere duaa for them.
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• This is an authentic duaa, which should be said
  after the third and fourth takbeers
• O Allah forgive him, have mercy on him, make him
  well, overlook his faults, make his place of rest
  a noble place and expand (the door of ) his
  entrance (into Paradise) wash him with water,
  snow, and hail, and purify him of his sins the
  way a white cloth is purified of dirt, replace
  his home with a better home, his family with a
  better family and his wife with a better spouse
  out him in Paradise and give him refuge from the
  punishment of the grave and the fire.

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TASLEEM

• Then the closing greetings of the funeral prayer
  may be given
• A)     Either by saying As-salaamu alaykum wa
  rahmatullaah May Allahs peace and mercy be upon
  you to the right side only.