The funeral prayer over the paternal uncles of the Prophet ﷺ

Question

How many paternal uncles did the Master of the world ﷺ have? Of them only two believed — Hazrat ‘Abbas ﵁ and Hazrat Hamza ﵁ — while the remaining seven or nine did not believe. Did the Prophet ﷺ take part in the funerals of Abu Lahab and Abu Talib or not?

Answer

You yourself know the number [of the uncles], as is clear from what you write. For the funeral prayer it is a condition that the deceased be a Muslim (thus in “al-Bahr”, vol. 1, p. 179). At first the hypocrites (munafiqs)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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