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كتاب الجنائز
The Book of Funerals
" احْفِرُوا وَأَوْسِعُوا وَأَحْسِنُوا، وَادْفِنُوا الاِثْنَيْنِ وَالثَّلاَثَةَ فِي الْقَبْرِ، وَقَدِّمُوا أَكْثَرَهُمْ قُرْآنًا "
"My father was killed on the day of Uhud, and the Prophet said: 'Dig graves and make them good and wide, and bury two or three in a grave, and put in first the one who knew the Qur'an most.' My father was the third of three, and the one who knew the Qur'an most was placed (in the grave) first."
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- Hadith 2016
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- Hadith 2020
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- Hadith 2015
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- Hadith 2021
"A man was buried with my father in the same grave and I felt restless until I brought him out and buried him on his own."