Burial and Carrying the Bier — Funeral Rites

• How fast the funeral bier should be carried
• How many steps the bier should be carried
• Shouldering the deceased for forty steps
• Walking with the funeral bareheaded
• The bier being light or heavy
• Forgiveness of sins for carrying the bier
• Which way should the deceased face while the bier is carried?
• Which end first when carrying a deceased woman out of the house?
• Carrying the deceased to the graveyard feet first
• Reciting the kalima aloud while walking with the janaza
• Raising the voice in dhikr while accompanying the janaza
• Standing up upon seeing a janaza
• Placing the deceased in a coffin
• Burying the deceased in a coffin
• May a non-mahram carry a woman’s janaza?
• Tying a loincloth (passed between the legs) when lowering the deceased into the grave
• Lowering the deceased into the grave while wearing a waist-cloth
• Screening at the burial of a woman
• Screening while lowering a woman into the grave
• How a deceased woman is placed in the grave
• May the husband lower the deceased woman into the grave?
• Who should go down into a woman’s grave
• After placing the deceased in the lahd, bamboo or the like is laid and then earth is thrown
• The position of the deceased in the grave
• How the deceased is placed in the grave
• The supplication when putting earth on the deceased
• The side of the lahd in the grave
• In the grave, untie all three knots of the kafan and turn the deceased on his side toward the qibla
• Which way the head of the deceased should be in the grave, and which way the feet
• Turning the deceased onto his side in the grave
• Which is better to dig: a side grave (lahd) or a middle grave (shaqq)?
• The forms of the grave
• The depth of the grave
• How deep should a grave be?
• The depth of the grave’s “box” (lower chamber)
• How should conjoined twins be buried?
• Moving the deceased after burial (concerning Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar)
• Relocating the grave of Bahadur Shah Zafar
• A mosque’s worn-out mat in the grave
• Placing clods of earth in the grave
• Types of talqin and which of them is permissible
• Talqin after burial
• Calling the adhan at the grave
• Saying something into the ear of the deceased and kissing him in the grave
• Showing the face of the deceased in the grave
• Showing the face of the deceased to non-Muslims at burial
• A non-Muslim accompanying a Muslim’s funeral and a Muslim accompanying a non-Muslim’s funeral
• Putting lime and water into the grave of a leper
• Placing a stick from a bush in the grave at burial
• Placing a jujube branch in the grave
• A jujube branch in the grave
• Putting jujube leaves in the grave
• Placing thorns on the grave for protection
• Supplicating at the grave with raised hands
• Supplicating with raised hands after burial
• Supplication after burial and raising the hands
• Burning incense sticks at burial and supplication after burial
• Burning incense sticks near the deceased
• Supplication and “al-Fatiha” after burying the deceased
• Turning the bier upside down after burial
• Placing a new deceased in an old grave
• What should be done if a head (skull) is found in an old grave?
• Washing hands right there after burial
• Burying the deceased in another person’s land
• Burying one’s deceased in someone else’s land
• Sprinkling water on the grave after burying the deceased
• Sprinkling water on the grave and strewing flower petals after burial
• Sprinkling water on graves
• Sprinkling water on the grave after the burial of the deceased
• Sprinkling fragrance in the grave
• Burial in an owner’s land without his permission
• Burying the dead in a Chamar’s land
• Obstructing the burial of the deceased
• Burying a body after two years
• Seen alive in a dream after burial
• The deceased woman said in a dream that she is alive
• Digging open a grave and exhuming the deceased for a post-mortem
• The deceased was placed in the grave the wrong way and earth was poured over him
• Burial next to a Christian graveyard
• Eating before the deceased is buried
• Taking part in the funeral of a non-Muslim
• Taking part in the funerals of non-Muslims
• Having one’s grave dug or built of brick during one’s lifetime and bequeathing burial in it
• Farming on a grave
• Artificial teeth going into the grave
• Taking soil from a grave for blessing
• Putting pond soil on a grave
• Bringing soil from a grave
• Putting soil on an old grave
• Adding earth to a grave when needed
• Adding earth when a grave has sunk
• Some superstitions connected with the grave
• Walking on graves
• Making a road through a graveyard
• Retrieving a banknote or the like that has fallen into a grave
• Carrying the deceased to the graveyard with music and dancing, and placing the chain of spiritual lineage in the grave
• The legislated method of making a grave
• Placing pages of the Qur’an in the grave
• If both the mother and the newborn die, are they buried together or separately?
• A strange manner of burial in the grave
• Distributing dried dates after burying the deceased
• Throwing earth on the deceased with the same hand after touching the private part and emitting madhy
• ‘Urs at the grave of a majdhub
• The difference between burying far away and nearby
• Burying the deceased in a mosque

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