Hadith Details
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Sunan Ibn Majah
كتاب الجنائز
Chapters Regarding Funerals
" إِنَّ أَرْوَاحَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي طَيْرٍ خُضْرٍ تَعْلُقُ فِي شَجَرِ الْجَنَّةِ "
“When Ka’b was dying, Umm Bishr bint Bara’ bin Ma’rur came to him and said: ‘O Abu ‘Abdur-Rahman! If you meet so-and-so, convey Salam to him from me.’ He said: ‘May Allah forgive you, O Umm Bishr! We are too busy to think of that.’ She said: ‘O Abu ‘Abdur-Rahman! Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “The souls of the believers are in green birds, eating from the trees of Paradise”?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ She said: ‘That is what I mean.’”
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Other hadiths from the same chapter
- Hadith 1529
“Why did you not tell me?” Then he said to his Companions: “Line up in rows to pray for her,” and he offered the funeral prayer for her.
- Hadith 1545
“When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) followed a funeral, he would not sit down until it had been placed in the niche-grave. A rabbi came to him and said: ‘This is…
- Hadith 1579
“And that they will not disobey you in Ma’ruf (all that is good in Islam);” he said: “(It is about) wailing.”
- Hadith 1469
“They used to claim that he was shrouded in Hibarah.” ‘Aishah said: “They brought a Hibarah Burd, but they did not shroud him in it.”
- Hadith 1521
“Do not bury your dead at night unless you are forced to.”
- Hadith 1622
“I never saw anyone suffer more pain than the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).”