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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on raising the voice during a funeral

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The first message in this episode is from Egypt, sent by a listener who says: The sender is your brother in Allah, Usamah 'Abd al-Haqq. Brother Usamah asks and says: After finishing the funeral prayer for the deceased, some people carry the coffin to the cemetery and recite the declaration of faith in a collective voice, and this continues until the coffin reaches the cemetery. Is this practice valid? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon the Messenger of Allah, upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow his guidance.
To proceed: This practice is not prescribed; rather, it is a religious innovation. Raising their voices with the declaration of faith until the funeral procession ends, all of this is reprehensible. However, a person should reflect and look within, remembering that his fate is this fate, death, and that there is a reckoning and recompense, so he should contemplate, remember, and prepare for this situation. As for raising the voice with dhikr, or "Wahdahu" (He is One), or other forms of dhikr in a collective voice until the coffin reaches the cemetery, this has no basis. Rather, it is among the innovations. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said in an authentic hadith:
Whoever does an action that is not in accordance with our command, it is rejectedمن عمل عملًا ليس علينا أمرنا فهو رد
meaning: it is rejected. It is not established that he (peace and blessings be upon him) or the Companions used to do this action, so it became an invented matter and a rejected one.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good!
Source binbaz.org.sa

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