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Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Anyone who dies worshipping others along with Allah will definitely enter the
Fire.” I said, “Anyone who dies worshipping none along with Allah will definitely enter Paradise.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) ordered us to do seven things and forbade us to do other seven. He ordered us:
to follow the funeral procession. to visit the sick, to accept invitations, to help the oppressed, to fulfill
the oaths, to return the greeting and to reply to the sneezer: (saying, “May Allah be merciful on you,”
provided the sneezer says, “All the praises are for Allah,”). He forbade us to use silver utensils and
dishes and to wear golden rings, silk (clothes), Dibaj (pure silk cloth), Qissi and Istabraq (two kinds of
silk cloths).

I heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) saying, “The rights of a Muslim on the Muslims are five: to respond to the salaam, visiting the sick, to follow the funeral processions, to accept an invitation, and to reply to those who sneeze. (see Hadith 1239)

Abu Bakr came riding his horse from his dwelling place in As-Sunh. He got down from it, entered the
Mosque and did not speak with anybody till he came to me and went direct to the Prophet, who was
covered with a marked blanket. Abu Bakr uncovered his face. He knelt down and kissed him and then
started weeping and said, “My father and my mother be sacrificed for you, O Allah’s Prophet! Allah
will not combine two deaths on you. You have died the death which was written for you.”
Narrated Abu Salama from Ibn `Abbas : Abu Bakr came out and `Umar , was addressing the people,
and Abu Bakr told him to sit down but `Umar refused. Abu Bakr again told him to sit down but `Umar
again refused. Then Abu Bakr recited the Tashah-hud (i.e. none has the right to be worshipped but
Allah and Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)) and the people attended to Abu Bakr and left `Umar. Abu
Bakr said, “Amma ba’du, whoever amongst you worshipped Muhammad, then Muhammad is dead,
but whoever worshipped Allah, Allah is alive and will never die. Allah said: ‘Muhammad is no more
than an Apostle and indeed (many) Apostles have passed away before him ..(up to the) grateful.’ ”
(3.144) (The narrator added, “By Allah, it was as if the people never knew that Allah had revealed this
verse before till Abu Bakr recited it and then whoever heard it, started reciting it.”)

Once Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) offered five rak`at in the Zuhr prayer, and somebody asked him whether there
was some increase in the prayer. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “What is that?” He said, “You have offered five
rak`at.” So Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) performed two prostrations of Sahu after Taslim.

Um Al-`Ala’, an Ansari woman who gave the pledge of allegiance to the Prophet (ﷺ) said to me, “The
emigrants were distributed amongst us by drawing lots and we got in our share `Uthman bin Maz’un.
We made him stay with us in our house. Then he suffered from a disease which proved fatal when he
died and was given a bath and was shrouded in his clothes, Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) came I said, ‘May Allah be
merciful to you, O Abu As-Sa’ib! I testify that Allah has honored you’. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘How do you
know that Allah has honored him?’ I replied, ‘O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! Let my father be sacrificed for you!
On whom else shall Allah bestow His honor?’ The Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘No doubt, death came to him. By
Allah, I too wish him good, but by Allah, I do not know what Allah will do with me though I am
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). ‘ By Allah, I never attested the piety of anyone after that.”Al-Laith also narrated as above.

The Prophet (ﷺ) led us in the `Asr or the Zuhr prayer and finished it with Taslim. Dhul-Yadain said to
him, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! Has the prayer been reduced?” The Prophet (ﷺ) asked his companions in the
affirmative. So Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) I offered two more rak`at and then performed two prostrations (of
Sahu). Sa`d said, “I saw that ‘Urwa bin Az-Zubair had offered two rak`at in the Maghrib prayer and
finished it with Taslim. He then talked (and when he was informed about it) he completed the rest of
his prayer and performed two prostrations, and said, ‘The Prophet (ﷺ) prayed like this.’ ”

When my father was martyred, I lifted the sheet from his face and wept and the people forbade me to
do so but the Prophet (ﷺ) did not forbid me. Then my aunt Fatima began weeping and the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “It
is all the same whether you weep or not. The angels were shading him continuously with their wings
till you shifted him (from the field). ”

Once Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) offered two rak`at and finished his prayer. So Dhul-Yadain asked him, “Has the
prayer been reduced or have you forgotten?” Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Has Dhul-Yadain spoken the
truth?” The people replied in the affirmative. Then Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) stood up and offered the remaining
two rak`at and performed Taslim, and then said Takbir and performed two prostrations like his usual
prostrations, or a bit longer, and then got up.

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) informed (the people) about the death of An-Najashi on the very day he died. He went
towards the Musalla (praying place) and the people stood behind him in rows. He said four Takbirs
(i.e. offered the Funeral prayer).