The funeral prayer for the deceased
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Question:
Abu 'Abdullah from Unayzah, Shaykh Salih, says: Before the funeral procession reaches the cemetery, the people stand waiting for it until it arrives, and they pray over it. Then the second one arrives and they pray over it, and so on. What is preferable: do they pray over all of them together, or over each one individually?
Answer:
If the funeral processions are gathered together, they pray over all of them together. If they are separated and do not arrive all at once, they pray over each one individually. As for their standing for the funeral procession, yes, this is mentioned in a hadith that they stand for it when it passes by, yes.
Abu 'Abdullah from Unayzah, Shaykh Salih, says: Before the funeral procession reaches the cemetery, the people stand waiting for it until it arrives, and they pray over it. Then the second one arrives and they pray over it, and so on. What is preferable: do they pray over all of them together, or over each one individually?
Answer:
If the funeral processions are gathered together, they pray over all of them together. If they are separated and do not arrive all at once, they pray over each one individually. As for their standing for the funeral procession, yes, this is mentioned in a hadith that they
They stand for the funeral procession when it passes by,
يقومون للجنازة إذا مرت،
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/298 — archive.org (12:27)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.