Chapter on the Prayer over the Dead

Muhammad ibn Ya'qub, from Muhammad ibn Yahya, from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn, from Musa ibn Talhah, from Abu Bakr ibn Isa ibn Ahmad al-Alawi, said: I was in the mosque and a funeral (bier) was brought in, and I intended to pray over it. Then Abu al-Hasan al-Awwal عليه السلام (the First), peace be upon him, came and placed his elbow against my chest and began to push me until he drove me out of the mosque. Then Imam عليه السلام said: “O’ Abu Bakr (ibn Isa), funeral prayers are not to be performed in mosques.”