Ways of The Prophet (S.A.W)

Masnun way of carrying a bier

For carrying a bier on shoulders the masnun way is that ‘bismillah’ should be said while lifting the cot (four poster) and that four persons carry the cot each one holding one of its legs changing shoulders after walking ten steps and doing so on each of the four legs.

The commendable way of carrying the bier is that the front right leg of the cot should be placed on the right shoulder and the bier carried in this manner for at shoulder, thereafter the front leg on the left shoulder and then the back left leg on the some shoulder. Thus the distance covered would at least be forty paces. The bier should be carried swiftly but the paces should not be so swift as to cause shaking and commotion to the dead body. [Bahishti Gauhar]

It is also lawful to follow a bier on a mount but going ahead of it is makruh. [Bahishti Zevar]

Those who follow the bier should observe silence.

Talking with each other, supplicating or reciting Holy QURAAN loudly is makruh. [Bahishti Gauhar]

Sitting in the graveyard before the coffin is placed on the ground is makruh. [Bahishti Guhar]

It is preferable that one should not sit until burial is complete.