There is No Particular Du’a or Salam in Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Body

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Causes of Death and that Believing People May Die by any Manner of Dying10 Difficulty in Dying (If Dying Becomes Difficult and the Agony of Death Intense)5 Facing the Dying Person Toward Qiblah3 A Believing Person Is Not Caused to Die Against His Will2 Things that Believers and Unbelievers See in Dying Conditions16 Taking out of the Souls of Believing and Unbelievers3 Burial Should Take Place Immediately2 Rare Ahadith1 Women during Hayd Nurse a Patient (The following chapters are about rules of washing a dead body for burial, shrouding and other matters of burial, and are best explained in the form of fatwa. Consult current fatwa about them.)1 Washing a Dead Body6 Hunut (Rubbing Camphor) on a Dead Body and Shrouding16 The Reward for a Person Suffering from Illness10

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لَيْسَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ قِرَاءَةٌ وَ لَا دُعَاءٌ مُوَقَّتٌ‌[3] تَدْعُو بِمَا بَدَا لَكَ وَ أَحَقُّ الْمَوْتَى أَنْ يُدْعَى لَهُ الْمُؤْمِنُ وَ أَنْ يَبْدَأَ بِالصَّلَاةِ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص.

“Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘There is no particularly prescribed prayer to say in Salah (prayer) for a deceased. You can pray whatever prayer you like; and the most deserving is the believing person who has just died and that such prayer begins with prayer for the Messenger of Allah by saying, ‘O Allah, grant compens

alkafi-4500Vol. 3, p. 185

قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‌ لَيْسَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ تَسْلِيمٌ.

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘There is no Salam (the phrase of offering greeting of peace) to end Salah (prayer) for a deceased.’”

alkafi-4501Vol. 3, p. 185

قَالا لَيْسَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ تَسْلِيمٌ

“Abu Ja‘far, and abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), have said, ‘There is no Salam (the phrase of offering greeting of peace) to end Salah (prayer) for a deceased.’”

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