O Allah, Your male slave and the child of Your female slave is in need of Your mercy, and You are not in need of his torment. If he was pious then increase his rewards and if he was a transgressor then pardon him. اللهُـمِّ عَبْـدُكَ وَابْنُ أَمَـتِك، احْتـاجَ […]
Du’as for the Graves and Funerals
O Allah, surely [name the person] is under Your protection, and in the rope of Your security, so save him from the trial of the grave and from the punishment of the Fire. You fulfill promises and grant rights, so forgive him and have mercy on him. Surely You are […]
Dua for the dead in the Funeral prayer
O Allah forgive our living and our dead, those who are with us and those who are absent, our young and our old, our menfolk and our womenfolk. O Allah, whomever you give life from among us give him life in Islam, and whomever you take way from us take […]
Dua for the dead in the Funeral prayer
Peace be upon you, people of this abode, from among the believers and those who are Muslims, and we, by the Will of Allah, shall be joining you. [May Allah have mercy on the first of us and the last of us] I ask Allah to grant us and you […]
Dua for visiting the graves
The Prophet (peace be upon him) used to stop after burying the dead and say to the people: “Ask Allah to forgive your brother and pray for him to be strengthened, for indeed he is now being questioned.” “O Allah, forgive him. O Allah, strengthen him.” اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لَهُ […]
Dua to be recited after burying the dead
With the Name of Allah and according to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah. بِسْـمِ اللهِ وَعَلـى سُـنَّةِ رَسـولِ الله Bismillaahi wa ‘alaa sunnati Rasoolillaah Abu Dawud 3/314 with an authentic chain. Ahmad also recorded it with the wording: With the Name of Allah, and according to […]
Dua to be recited when placing the dead in his ...
Surely, Allah takes what is His, and what He gives is His, and to all things He has appointed a time…so have patience and be rewarded. إِنَّ للهِ ما أَخَذ، وَلَهُ ما أَعْـطـى، وَكُـلُّ شَيءٍ عِنْـدَهُ بِأَجَلٍ مُسَـمَّى.فَلْتَصْـبِر وَلْتَحْـتَسِب ‘Inna lillaahi maa ‘akhatha, wa lahu maa ‘a’taa, wa […]
Dua for the bereaved
O Allah, forgive him and have mercy on him and give him strength and pardon him. Be generous to him and cause his entrance to be wide and wash him with water and snow and hail. Cleanse him of his transgressions as white cloth is cleansed of stains. Give him […]
Dua for the dead in the Funeral prayer
O Allah, forgive [name of the person] and elevate his station among those who are guided. Send him along the path of those who came before, and forgive us and him, O Lord of the worlds. Enlarge for him his grave and shed light upon him in it. اللهُـمِّ اغْفِـرْ […]
Dua for closing the eyes of the dead
He will enter Paradise, he who dies with the last words saying لا إلهَ إلاّ اللّه Laa ‘ilaaha ‘illallaah There is none worthy of worship but Allah. Abu Dawud 3/190. See also Al-Albani, Sahihul-Jami’ As-Saghir