Riyāḍ uṣ-Ṣāliḥīn · Chapter 158 of 372
Haste in Burial
The Book of Visiting the Sick – Chapter 158 : Ahadith 941 – 942
Imam Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi (d. 676 AH)
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941 Abu Hurairah (radiyallahu anhu) reported: I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, “Hurry up with the dead body (for its burial), for if it is pious, you are speeding it to goodness and if it is otherwise, you are laying an evil off your necks.” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
942 Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri (radiyallahu anhu) reported: The Prophet ﷺ said, “When a dead body is placed on a bier and men carry it on their shoulders, if he was a pious man, it (corpse) says: `Take me in haste.’ But if he was not righteous, it says to its bearers: `Woe to it. Where are you taking it?’ Everything except man hears its voice. Had a human being heard its voice, he would have surely fallen into swoon.”[Al-Bukhari].