And prayers and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.

The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
He (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Chapter on what is said when closing the eyes of the deceased. It was narrated from Umm Salama (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came in to Abu Salama, and his eyes had burst open, so he closed them. Then he said:

When the soul is taken, the sight follows it.

إن الروح إذا قبض تبعه البصر

Sunan Ibn Majah 1454Sahih (Darussalam)

Some of his family members wailed, so he said:

Do not pray for yourself anything but good, for the angels utter Amin to what you say.

لا تدعوا على أنفسكم إلا بخير فإن الملائكة يأمنون على ما تقولون

Sunan Abi Dawud 3118Sahih (Al-Albani)

Then he said:

O Allah, forgive Abu Salama, raise his degree among those who are rightly guided, grant him a successor in his descendants who remain. Forgive us and him, O Lord of the Universe, and make his grave spacious, and grant him light in it.

اللهم اغفر لأبي سلمة وارفع درجته في المهديين واخلفه في عقبه في الغابرين واغفر لنا وله يا رب العالمين وافسح له في قبره ونور له فيه

Sahih Muslim 920a

Muslim narrated it."

The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
The author al-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his book *Riyad al-Salihin*: "Chapter on what is said when closing the eyes of the deceased". This means that when a person is present with the deceased, the deceased usually has his eyes fixed and open, widening as the soul exits the body. This is because when the soul exits the body, it has a form, but it is a form that people do not see; only the deceased sees it, and the angels also see it and take it. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) came in to Abu Salama. It was the custom of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) to visit the sick, so he came in to Abu Salama and found his eyes had burst open, meaning they had widened and opened. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) knew that he had died, so he said: Some of his family members, meaning the people of the house, wailed. They heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say this, so they knew that the man had died and wailed, as is the custom of people when such a thing happens; they wailed with crying. So he (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said: In the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, when such a thing happened, they would invoke calamity upon themselves, saying, "Woe and destruction, and refuge in Allah from that," saying, "Oh woe to him, and destruction, and the breaking of his back," and the like. So he said: In this situation, a person should invoke good for himself and say what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) guided to: after saying: because for every calamity one says, "Indeed to Allah we belong and to Him we return," and in the calamity of death: and likewise for others. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) narrated this hadith, and Umm Salama, the wife of Abu Salama, heard it. When her husband died, and he was among the most beloved of people to her, she said this phrase: "O Allah, compensate me in my calamity and replace for me something better than it". She said to herself: Who is better than Abu Salama? She pondered who would come to be better than Abu Salama, because she believed in this statement. When her waiting period ended, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) proposed to her, and he was undoubtedly better than Abu Salama. The important point is that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) closed the eyes of Abu Salama because they were open, and then he said: Five words that equal the entire world. This means: Forgive his sins so that You do not punish him for them, and pardon him and excuse him. In Paradise, because the people of Paradise are all guided; they have all been guided. This means: Expand his grave for him, for the grave, in relation to the dwellings of this world, is narrow according to physical perception, but it is expanded for the believer until it becomes the span of his vision and a garden from the gardens of Paradise. O Allah, by Your grace. He said: And the grave is dark according to physical perception; it is dark, with no light of day, no light of a lamp, or anything else, so fill it with light for him. This means: Be a successor for him in his descendants and his offspring. So these five supplications include something we know and something we hope for. What we know is that Allah the Exalted compensated him in his descendants, because his wife was married by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), and his children became stepchildren to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and were raised in his house. As for the remaining four, we hope that Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, has accepted the supplication of His Prophet for this righteous man.