Chapter on the Prayer over the Dead

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 3|Book 2|Chapter 10
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Volume 3, Book 2, Chapter 10

Chapter on the Prayer over the Dead

عَنْهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ اَلْوَلِيدِ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ اَلْجَنَازَةِ لَمْ أُدْرِكْهَا حَتَّى بَلَغَتِ اَلْقَبْرَ أُصَلِّي عَلَيْهَا قَالَ« إِنْ أَدْرَكْتَهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ تُدْفَنَ فَإِنْ شِئْتَ فَصَلِّ عَلَيْهَا»
From him, from Muhammad ibn al-Walid from Yunus ibn Ya'qub from Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, who said: I asked Imam al-Sadiq عليه السلام about a funeral that I did not catch, until it reached the grave. Should I pray over it? Imam عليه السلام said: “If you reach it before it is buried, then if you wish, you may pray over it.”
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 3, p. 369
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb