The Ruling on Repeating the Funeral Prayer
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and bless you. This is a questioner for the program who says: Honorable Shaykh, we wash the deceased, and there are many of them, and we are unable to pray over them in the mosque with the congregation. Some of us pray over them before they are taken to the mosque. Some people criticized us, saying that the first prayer is a collective obligation (fard kifayah) and the second is a recommended practice (sunnah). So, should we pray over them or not? We know that sometimes we are unable to go to the cemetery.
Answer:
And you will be rewarded, if Allah wills. This does not prevent the prayer from being performed over them multiple times. Praying over them in the mosque, in the cemetery, or in the house, all of this is an increase in good. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good and bless you. This is a questioner for the program who says: Honorable Shaykh, we wash the deceased, and there are many of them, and we are unable to pray over them in the mosque with the congregation. Some of us pray over them before they are taken to the mosque. Some people criticized us, saying that the first prayer is a collective obligation (fard kifayah) and the second is a recommended practice (sunnah). So, should we pray over them or not? We know that sometimes we are unable to go to the cemetery.
Answer:
And you will be rewarded, if Allah wills. This does not prevent the prayer from being performed over them multiple times. Praying over them in the mosque, in the cemetery, or in the house, all of this is an increase in good. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/211 — archive.org (2:54)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.