The Shroud (Kafan) — Funeral Rites

• Cloth placed over the shroud
• Is the cloth placed after washing the deceased to cover the ‘awra part of the shroud?
• The pieces of cloth of the shroud
• How many pieces of cloth for the deceased?
• The pieces of the shroud and the method of shrouding
• The number of pieces of cloth in the shroud
• The number of shroud pieces for a deceased man and woman
• What amount of shroud is sufficient
• Trousers in a woman’s shroud
• Sewing the shroud on a machine and folding it
• The shroud of a minor
• Buying and keeping, during one’s lifetime, the requisites for one’s own shrouding and burial
• What colour the shroud should be
• What colour the cloth of the shroud should be
• Are the shroud and the like the husband’s responsibility?
• Whose responsibility is a woman’s shroud?
• The ruling on the ties of the shroud
• Writing the kalima on the shroud
• Writing on the shroud
• The ‘ahd-nama on the shroud
• Talqin after burial and writing the ‘ahd-nama on the shroud
• Writing the kalima tayyiba and the like and hanging it round the neck of the deceased
• Placing a sheet with the kalima written on it over the deceased
• A red sheet over a woman’s bier
• Applying perfume to the shroud
• A blessed cloth in the shroud
• A piece of the Ka‘ba’s covering on the forehead of the deceased
• A piece of the Ka‘ba’s covering on the deceased
• Sprinkling Zamzam water on the deceased
• Moistening the shroud with Zamzam water
• A shroud of foreign cloth and the funeral prayer over it
• If the bodies of a Hindu and a Muslim cannot be told apart, how are shrouding and burial to be done?
• Burying a dead child in a pot without washing or shroud
• Preparing and shrouding an apostate (murtadd)
• Shrouding a Muslim with a non-Muslim’s money
• Having a shroud sewn by a non-Muslim

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