2802 The ruling on gesturing and reciting dhikr when seeing a funeral procession
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it from the Sunnah to gesture when seeing the bier containing the deceased and to say "La ilaha illa Allah"?
Answer:
This means that if he says it, it is not from the category of what is prescribed; rather, he says it as a form of dhikr, remembering death when he sees the funeral procession, and there is no harm in that. However, if he believes that this is prescribed—that he should say it every time he sees a funeral procession—this becomes a bid'ah (religious innovation); because it is arranging a dhikr for a time for which no evidence has come, or for a situation for which no evidence has come.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it from the Sunnah to gesture when seeing the bier containing the deceased and to say "La ilaha illa Allah"?
Answer:
This means that if he says it, it is not from the category of what is prescribed; rather, he says it as a form of dhikr, remembering death when he sees the funeral procession, and there is no harm in that. However, if he believes that this is prescribed—that he should say it every time he sees a funeral procession—this becomes a bid'ah (religious innovation); because it is arranging a dhikr for a time for which no evidence has come, or for a situation for which no evidence has come.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 2674 2802 حكم الإشارة والذكر عند مشاهدة الجنازة الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.