Chapter 123
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 123
What those who lay the deceased in the grave should say
Arabic
Romanisation
Bismi-llāhi wa ‘alā sunnati Rasūli-llāh ṣalla-llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
Context
WE RELATE FROM the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd, at-Tirmidhī, al-Bayhaqī and others from Ibn ‘Umar 
, who reported that when the Prophet 
laid the dead in the grave he said: “In the name of Allah and according to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah .” [1].At-Tirmidhī describes this as a ḥasan hadith. Ash-Shāfi‘ī and his colleagues, may Allah have mercy on them, hold that it is mustaḥabb to make du‘ā’ for the deceased with these words.
References
[1] Abū Dāwūd (3213), at-Tirmidhī (1046), and al-Bayhaqī (4/55). This hadith is graded as ṣaḥīḥ by Ibn Ḥibbān, al-Ḥākim and adh-Dhahabī.