Reminding People to Ask for Steadfastness When Burying the Dead
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Is it prescribed now, when burying the deceased, for someone to come and remind people by saying, “Ask for steadfastness”Sunan Abi Dawud 3221Sahih (Al-Albani)?
Answer:
This is what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered his Companions to do. He stood over the grave, and his Companions stood with him, and he said to them (peace and blessings be upon him)Sunan Abi Dawud 3221Sahih (Al-Albani). This is the prescribed practice.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Is it prescribed now, when burying the deceased, for someone to come and remind people by saying, “Ask for steadfastness”
steadfastness for him, for he will be questioned now
له التثبيت فإنه الآن يسألAnswer:
This is what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered his Companions to do. He stood over the grave, and his Companions stood with him, and he said to them (peace and blessings be upon him)
Seek forgiveness for your brother, and beg steadfastness for him, for he will be questioned now.
اسْتَغْفِرُوا لأَخِيكُمْ وَسَلُوا لَهُ التَّثْبِيتَ فَإِنَّهُ الآنَ يُسْأَلُ
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شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تابع فصل ثم إن في اتخاذ القبور أعيادًا من المفاسد العظيمة ... - 2 — islamhouse.com (57:47)
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