Praying over the funeral before the imam
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Question:
The questioner says: Shaykh, some people wash the funeral, and this is something we hear about often, and we are unable to pray over it in the mosque with the congregation. Some people pray over it before it is taken to the mosque.
Answer:
The one who prays over the funerals is the imam of the mosque, so they should be patient and pray over it with the imam of the mosque and with the congregation of the Muslims. There are people who snatch the funerals and pray over them before the imam; they pass by the washers and pray. We say: May Allah increase them in their eagerness for reward and recompense, but this is not from the Sunnah. The Sunnah is that they be patient and pray over the funeral with the Muslims behind the imam of the mosque. Yes.
The questioner says: Shaykh, some people wash the funeral, and this is something we hear about often, and we are unable to pray over it in the mosque with the congregation. Some people pray over it before it is taken to the mosque.
Answer:
The one who prays over the funerals is the imam of the mosque, so they should be patient and pray over it with the imam of the mosque and with the congregation of the Muslims. There are people who snatch the funerals and pray over them before the imam; they pass by the washers and pray. We say: May Allah increase them in their eagerness for reward and recompense, but this is not from the Sunnah. The Sunnah is that they be patient and pray over the funeral with the Muslims behind the imam of the mosque. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/077 — archive.org (11:15)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.