Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh · Volume 1 · Section 27 · 58 narrations
The term "المأتم" (ma'tam) originally referred to a gathering of men and women for either sorrowful or joyful occasions. Over time, it became specifically associated with gatherings of women during times of mourning for…
Read the full narration →Hadith.502 - The Messenger of Allah (sw) said: "Whoever consoles a grieving person will be clothed in a robe of honor on the Day of Standing (the Day of Judgment), which will bring them joy (and honor)."
Read the full narration →"I saw Imam Musa ibn Jafar Al-Kadhim (as) offering condolences both before and after the burial."
Read the full narration →Hadith.504 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "The obligatory act of offering condolences is after the burial."
Read the full narration →Hadith.505 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "It is sufficient as a form of condolence for the bereaved to see you."
Read the full narration →Hadith.506 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) visited a group of people who had experienced a loss and said: "May Allah (swt) strengthen you in your weakness, grant you beautiful patience, and have mercy on your…
Read the full narration →Hadith.507 - The Messenger of Allah (sw) said: "Offering condolences leads to Paradise."
Read the full narration →Hadith.508 - The truthful one, Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as), offered condolences to a man who had lost his son and said to him: "Allah (swt) is better for your son than you are, and the reward from Allah (swt)…
Read the full narration →"It is proper for the person responsible for the funeral (i.e., the chief mourner) not to wear an outer cloak (ridā') and to remain in a shirt (Qamis) so that they are recognized (as grieving). It is also proper for the…
Read the full narration →Hadith.510 - Imam (as) said: "Cursed!, cursed is the one who puts down (removes) their cloak (ridā') in the misfortune of someone else."
Read the full narration →Hadith.511 - "When Imam Ali ibn Muhammad Al-Hadi (as) passed away, Imam Hasan ibn Ali Al-Askari (as), was seen coming out of the house with his shirt torn from the front and the back."
Read the full narration →Hadith.512 - "The Messenger of Allah (sw) placed his cloak down during the funeral of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh (may Allah (swt) have mercy on him). When asked about this, He (sw) said: "I saw the angels had placed their cloaks…
Read the full narration →Hadith.513 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "If patience had not been created before trials, the believer would have shattered like an egg striking a rock."
Read the full narration →Hadith.514 - The Messenger of Allah (sw) said: "There are four qualities; whoever possesses them will be in the greatest light of Allah (swt), the Exalted and Glorious:" One whose protection is in the testimony that…
Read the full narration →Hadith.515 - Imam Muhammad ibn Ali Al-Baqir (as) said: "Whenever a believer is afflicted with a calamity in this world and responds by reciting the phrase of 'istirja' (saying 'Indeed, we belong to Allah (swt) and to Him…
Read the full narration →'Forget what you have seen.' Were it not for this, no one would find any benefit (joy) in living."
Read the full narration →Hadith.517 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "Whoever is afflicted with a calamity, whether they express intense grief over it or not, whether they exercise patience or not, their reward from Allah (swt), the…
Read the full narration →Hadith.518 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "The reward for a believer whose child dies is Paradise, whether they exhibit patience or not”.
Read the full narration →Hadith.519 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "Whoever loses a child (before their own passing), it is better for them than leaving behind seventy children after them, all of whom rode horses and fought in the…
Read the full narration →Hadith.520 - The Messenger of Allah (sw) said: "No one will enter Paradise unless they have a farat (one who goes ahead)." A man who had no children and had not lost any asked: "O’ Messenger of Allah (sw), does everyone…
Read the full narration →Hadith.521 - The Messenger of Allah (sw) said to Sayyida Fatimah Al-Zahra {S.A} when Ja'far ibn Abi Talib was martyred: "Do not supplicate with (expressions of) humiliation, loss, or desolation. Whatever you have said…
Read the full narration →"When a person dies, Allah (swt), the Exalted and Glorious, sends an angel to the one among their family who is most deeply affected by the loss. The angel touches their heart and alleviates the intensity of grief. If it…
Read the full narration →Hadith.523 - The Messenger of Allah (sw) said: "When the child of a believer passes away, Allah (swt) – knowing best what His servant has said – asks the angels: 'Have you taken the child of My believing servant?' They…
Read the full narration →Hadith.524 - When Ismail ibn Jaafar passed away, Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) came out and walked ahead of the bier without shoes and without an outer garment (ridā').
Read the full narration →Hadith.525 - When Imam Ali ibn Al-Hussain (as), saw a funeral procession, He would say: Alhamdulillahi alladhi lam yaj‘alni mina as-sawadi al-mukhtaram 'Praise be to Allah (swt) who did not make me from among those whose…
Read the full narration →Hadith.526 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "When Ibrahim, the son of the Messenger of Allah (sw) passed away, the Prophet said: 'We are grieved by your departure, O’ Ibrahim, and we are patient. The heart…
Read the full narration →Hadith.527 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "When The Prophet (sw) received news of the deaths of Ja'far ibn Abi Talib (as) and Zayd ibn Harithah, he would weep intensely when he entered his house and would…
Read the full narration →Hadith.528 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "Indeed, trials and patience race toward the believer, so when trials reach him, he is patient. But panic and trials race toward the disbeliever, so when trials…
Read the full narration →"I said to Abu Al-Hasan Imam Musa ibn Jafar Al-Kadhim (as): ‘My wife and my sister, who is the wife of Muhammad ibn Marid, go out to mourning gatherings. I prohibited them, but they said to me, 'If it is forbidden, we…
Read the full narration →Hadith.530 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "No one will be questioned in the grave except one who has perfected their faith completely or one who has perfected disbelief completely. As for the rest, they…
Read the full narration →Hadith.531 - Sama’a ibn Mehran asked Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) about visiting graves and building mosques around them. Imam (as) replied: "There is no issue with visiting graves, but no mosques should be…
Read the full narration →Hadith.532 - The Prophet Muhammad (sw) said: "Do not take my grave as a qibla (direction of prayer) or a mosque. Indeed, Allah (swt), the Exalted and Glorious, cursed the Jews when they took the graves of their prophets…
Read the full narration →Hadith.533 - Jarrah al-Mada'ini asked Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) about how to offer salutations to the inhabitants of the graves. Imam (as) replied: "[You should stand and] say: Al-salāmu ‘alā ahli al-diyār…
Read the full narration →Hadith.534 - When the Messenger of Allah (sw) would pass by graves, he would say: Al-salāmu ‘alaykum min diyāri qawmin mu’minīn, wa innā in shā’a Allāhu bikum lāḥiqūn 'Peace be upon you, O’ dwellers of the homes of…
Read the full narration →Hadith.535 - The Commander of the Faithful Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) entered the graveyard, He said: "O’ inhabitants of the earth and estranged ones! As for your homes, they have been inhabited; As for your spouses,…
Read the full narration →Hadith.536 - The Messenger of Allah (sw) stood over the bodies of those killed at Badr, having gathered them into a well/pit, and said: “O’ inhabitants of the well, we have found what our Lord (azj) promised us to be…
Read the full narration →Hadith.537 - Sayyida Fatimah Al-Zahra {S.A} used to visit the graves of the martyrs every Saturday morning, and She would come to the grave of Hamzah (as), show mercy upon him, and seek forgiveness for him.
Read the full narration →Hadith.538 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "When you enter the graveyard, say : Al-salāmu ‘alā ahl al-jannah “Peace be upon the people of Paradise."
Read the full narration →Hadith.539 - Abu Al-Hasan Imam Musa ibn Jafar Al-Kadhim (as) said: "When you enter the graveyards, step over the graves. Whoever is a believer will find comfort from that, and whoever is a hypocrite will feel its pain."
Read the full narration →"I asked Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as): Do the dead know when we visit them?" Imam (as) said: “Yes, by Allah (swt), they know of your visits and they rejoice and find comfort in your presence” I said: "What…
Read the full narration →Hadith.541 - Imam Ali ibn Musa Ar-Ridha (as) said: "Whenever a believing servant visits the grave of a believer and recites 'Indeed, We revealed it [the Qur'an] on the Night of Qadr' Surah Al-Qadr (97:1-5) seven times,…
Read the full narration →Hadith.542 - Ishaq ibn Ammar asked Abu Al-Hasan al-Awwal, Imam Musa ibn Jafar Al-Kadhim (as) about whether a believer visits their family (after death). Imam (as) replied: "Yes." He (Ishaq) asked: ‘How often?’ The Imam…
Read the full narration →"Indeed, the disbeliever visits their family and sees what displeases them, while what they would like is concealed from them (by the accompanying angels)."
Read the full narration →Hadith.544 - Safwan ibn Yahya said to Abu Al-Hasan Imam Musa ibn Jafar Al-Kadhim (as): "I have heard that when a believer is visited by someone (at their grave), they are comforted by their presence, but when the visitor…
Read the full narration →Hadith.545 - Imam al-Baqir (as) said: "A mourning gathering (ma'tam) is to be held for the deceased for three days from the day of their death."
Read the full narration →Hadith.546 - Imam al-Baqir (as) made a will specifying 800 dirhams to be used for his mourning gathering (ma'tam), as he saw this as part of the tradition (sunnah). This was because the Messenger of Allah (sw) said:…
Read the full narration →Hadith.547 - Imam al-Baqir (as) willed that he be lamented (mourned) during special gatherings for ten years.
Read the full narration →Hadith.548 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "Eating [a meal] at the home of those afflicted with a loss is from the practices of the people of the pre-Islamic era (Jahiliya), The sunnah (tradition) is to…
Read the full narration →Hadith.549 - When Ja'far ibn Abi Talib (as) was killed, the Messenger of Allah (sw) instructed Sayyida Fatimah Al-Zahra {S.A} to go to Asma' bint Umays and her womenfolk and to prepare food for them for three days. Thus,…
Read the full narration →Hadith.550 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "No one should observe mourning (ḥidād) for more than three days, except for a woman mourning her husband, as She must continue her mourning until the completion…
Read the full narration →Hadith.551 – Imam (as) said was asked about the reward (ajr) of the mourning woman (nā’iḥah), Imam (as) said: "There is no issue with it, for mourning (niyaḥah) was done for the Messenger of Allah (sw)."
Read the full narration →"There is no issue with the earnings of the mourning woman (nā’iḥah) if She speaks truthfully." In another narration, Imam (as) said: "She justifies it (her earnings) by striking one of her hands on the other."
Read the full narration →"But Hamza has no mourners." The people of Medina swore that they would not mourn or weep over any deceased until they began with mourning and weeping for Hamza. To this day, they continue this tradition.
Read the full narration →Hadith.554 - Omar ibn Yazid said: I asked Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) whether it is permissible to pray on behalf of a deceased person. Imam (as) replied: "Yes, even to the extent that if the deceased is in…
Read the full narration →Hadith.555 - Imam (as) said: "Six things follow a believer after his death: a child who seeks forgiveness for him, a Quran he leaves behind, a tree he plants, a charity of water he provides, a well he digs, and a good…
Read the full narration →Hadith.556 - Imam (as) said: "Whoever from among the Muslims performs a good deed on behalf of a deceased person, their reward will be multiplied, and Allah (swt) will benefit the deceased through it."
Read the full narration →Hadith.557 - Imam (as) said: "Prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, charity, righteousness, and supplication enter upon the deceased in their grave, and the reward is written for both the one who performs these deeds and the…
Read the full narration →Hadith.558 - When Dhar ibn Abi Dhar, passed away, Abu Dharr stood by his grave, touched it with his hand, and said: "May Allah (swt) have mercy on you, O’ Dhar. By Allah (swt), you were righteous toward me. You were…
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