Praying over the funeral before or after burial in the cemetery
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says: If the funeral is brought to the cemetery after the prayer has been performed over it in the mosque, and there is a group in the cemetery who did not pray over it in the mosque, which is better for them: to pray over it before burial or after burial?
Answer:
No, before burial. If you pray over it before burial, that is better. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says: If the funeral is brought to the cemetery after the prayer has been performed over it in the mosque, and there is a group in the cemetery who did not pray over it in the mosque, which is better for them: to pray over it before burial or after burial?
Answer:
No, before burial. If you pray over it before burial, that is better. Yes.
Source
تفسير حزب المفصل، تفسير سورة القلم [ الآية 41 إلى آخر السورة ] — islamhouse.com (48:44)
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