The ruling on praying over a funeral that arrives while prayers are being performed over other funerals
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The questioner:
In his second question, he says: Sometimes we pray over four funerals, and before the closing salam, a fifth funeral is brought and placed there. Does its reward count with the four, or do we pray over it separately?
The Shaykh:
This is not permissible. It is obligatory that the one who arrived late, because of the recitations of those present, be prayed over first, and then the funeral that arrived late be prayed over in a separate prayer.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. And he says in...
The Shaykh:
Among the defects that occur in gathering funerals, gathering funerals in this manner causes a great deal of disorder. If the funerals were distributed among the mosques and the congregational mosques, it would be better for the people and better for the funerals. Yes, gathering them in one place causes many errors. Yes.
In his second question, he says: Sometimes we pray over four funerals, and before the closing salam, a fifth funeral is brought and placed there. Does its reward count with the four, or do we pray over it separately?
The Shaykh:
This is not permissible. It is obligatory that the one who arrived late, because of the recitations of those present, be prayed over first, and then the funeral that arrived late be prayed over in a separate prayer.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. And he says in...
The Shaykh:
Among the defects that occur in gathering funerals, gathering funerals in this manner causes a great deal of disorder. If the funerals were distributed among the mosques and the congregational mosques, it would be better for the people and better for the funerals. Yes, gathering them in one place causes many errors. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/2539] حكم الصلاة على جنازة جاءت أثناء الصلاة على جنائز أخرى - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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