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Sahih Muslim
كتاب الجنائز
The Book of Prayer - Funerals
" لأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ فَتُحْرِقَ ثِيَابَهُ فَتَخْلُصَ إِلَى جِلْدِهِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ "
It is better that one of you should sit on live coals which would burn his clothing and come in contact with his skin than that he should sit on a grave.
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- Hadith 927a
Be quiet, my daughter. Don't you know that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had said:" The deceased is punished because of his family's weeping over the death"?
- Hadith 932c
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- Hadith 928b
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- Hadith 938a
We were forbidden to follow the bier, but it was not made absolute on us.
- Hadith 977b
This hadith has been narrated through another chain of transmitters.
- Hadith 963a
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