21. Funerals

٢١۔ كتاب الجنائز

21.73 Praying For Forgiveness For The Deceased By The Grave At The Time Of Departing (Burial)

٢١۔٧٣ باب الاِسْتِغْفَارِ عِنْدَ الْقَبْرِ لِلْمَيِّتِ فِي وَقْتِ الاِنْصِرَافِ

abudawud:3221Ibrāhīm b. Mūsá al-Rāzī > Hishām > ʿAbdullāh b. Baḥīr > Hāniʾ a freed slave of ʿUthmān > ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān

Whenever the Prophet ﷺ became free from burying the dead, he used to stay at him (i.e. his grave) and say: Seek forgiveness for your brother, and beg steadfastness for him, for he will be questioned now. Abu Dawud said: The full name of the narrator Buhair is Buhair b. Raisan.  

أبو داود:٣٢٢١حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى الرَّازِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بَحِيرٍ عَنْ هَانِئٍ مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ قَالَ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِذَا فَرَغَ مِنْ دَفْنِ الْمَيِّتِ وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ اسْتَغْفِرُوا لأَخِيكُمْ وَسَلُوا لَهُ التَّثْبِيتَ فَإِنَّهُ الآنَ يُسْأَلُ  

قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ بَحِيرُ بْنُ رَيْسَانَ