Ways of The Prophet (S.A.W)

Method of performing Janazah Salaah

After the niyyah both hands should be raised upto the ears and (takbeer Tahrimah) should be recited. Thereafter the hands be folded and the following be recited:

“Holiness to Thee, O ALLAH ! And praise be to Thee! Great is Thy name! Great is Thy greatness! Great is Thy praise! And there is no God (worthy of worship) but Thee.”

After this, the second Takbeer [ALLAH is Great] should be recited but hands should not be raised and then Darud (preferably that recited in the last Qaidah of the daily Salaah) should be recited.

Then without raising hands the third Takbeer should be recited and the following supplication recited:

“O ALLAH, forgive our living, dead, present and absent, big and small, man and woman. O ALLAH, whoever among us is kept Alive by Thee, be kept Alive on the path of Islam and to whom Thou causest to die, let him die with faith.”

If anybody does not remember the above dua, he should recite any other dua. Then saying takbeer (for the fourth time) without raising the hands, one should turn to the right for salam and then to the left as is done in the daily Salaah. The takbeerat and salam should be recited loudly by the Imam only. [Bahishti Gauhar]

If the Janazah (bier is of a minor child boy) the following should be recited: 

“O ALLAH! Make him one who precedes us to make arrangement for us and make him our reward and our depository and make him an intercessor for us and one whose intercession Thou hast accepted.”

If the janazah (bier) is of a girl, then the dua will be as follows:

“O ALLAH Make her one who precedes us to make arrangement for us and make her our reward and our depository and make her an intercessor for us and one whose intercession Thou hast accepted.”

The blessing and importance of a large number of participants in Janazah Salaah.

Hadrat Aishah (Radi Allahu Ta’ala Anha) narrated that the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) said, “If a company of Muslims to the number of a hundered pray over a dead person, all of them interceding for him their intercession for him will be accepted.” [Muslim, Mishkat]

Hadrat Malik bin Hubairah (Radi Allahu Ta’ala Anhu) narrated that he heard ALLAH’s Messenger (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) say, “If any Muslim dies and three rows of Muslims pray over him it will assure him (of paradise).”

When Hadrat Malik considered those who accompanied a bier to be few, he divided them into three rows in accordance with this tradition. [Abu Dawud, Mishkat]