The reward for following a funeral procession for one who arrives at the cemetery by car before it
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. After the funeral prayer, we sometimes get ahead of the funeral procession, and sometimes it gets ahead of us to the cemetery while we are still far away, and we are in our cars. Do we miss out on the reward for following the funeral procession in both cases?
Answer:
It is better that you walk with it. But if you get ahead to the cemetery to attend the burial and the supplication for the deceased after the burial, that is a good thing, and there is nothing wrong with it, if Allah wills. However, the more you walk with the funeral procession, the better. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. After the funeral prayer, we sometimes get ahead of the funeral procession, and sometimes it gets ahead of us to the cemetery while we are still far away, and we are in our cars. Do we miss out on the reward for following the funeral procession in both cases?
Answer:
It is better that you walk with it. But if you get ahead to the cemetery to attend the burial and the supplication for the deceased after the burial, that is a good thing, and there is nothing wrong with it, if Allah wills. However, the more you walk with the funeral procession, the better. Yes.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - 030-كتاب الجنائز -3- 23-1-22 هـ — archive.org (1:21:28)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.