Can women attend burials & funeral prayers | Mufti Abu Layth

Bye. Uh Can women can should women attend a namaz-e-janaza and or burial rituals? This is a question asked by Abdullah ibn Abbas. Not the famous not the Abdullah ibn Abbas but this is this Abdullah ibn Abbas from

from God knows from Facebook. Okay. So, can women attend the janaza funeral prayers? Of course they can attend the funeral prayers. What does that even mean? Women can most certainly attend the funeral prayers. Um and can they attend the burial rituals? Yes, they can. Absolutely. And and you see that although and many of the scholars have written about this ibn Abdul Barr and the great Hafidh of Muslim Spain and other people have written that those hadith because there was some hadith where the prophet prohibited some women

uh from going to the graves. Those hadith were abrogated and that was just for a period of time until they were placing some structure. You see because uh uh because the Arabs of today even some other people have this custom as well. The Arabs of old of ancient times had a custom that if they were to die it was seen you know part of the kind of uh part of the the duty of the women folk that they leave behind

was that they were to really cry and uh create a scene. And they wanted this scene created. And they would say that uh it's like the famous um Arabic Jahiliyyah poet poet when he says in his If I die, then You see the na'i is like the kind of the news and the outbreak that a person has upon the news of death of a beloved.

So when you hear that somebody has died, your kind of your outcry and your kind of whether you however you do that or your expression was the na'i. That and tear your clothes and kind of like beat yourself.

Yabnata Ma'badi, like he's saying to his daughter that do this, like make sure. So this was the kind of custom that they had. Uh Some guys are thinking She It's not like about women just ripping their And they're like, "Why are these funerals so jam-packed?" And people are selling for you know, for front rows.

They're like right, it costs this much to be in the front row. And everybody's like Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a tragedy. Yeah, yeah. So the women would kind of like beat themselves. They've got

So they would do all this kind of like beating themselves. They slap their their faces and the bodies and they tear their This This was known as the jabe. This kind of hole that you stick your head through, but obviously it was much lower. Almost like how this kind of necklace I suppose kind of goes down. And they would tear that and not quite the But that's what they would do. So Yeah, so see all this So the the prophet alaihi wasallam

for a a brief period applied a kind of a moratorium, a kind of just a a suspension until they had some structure in place to control this custom in saying, "Okay, look, keep these women who are going to do this, keep them them back. Okay?" That uh In fact, there's even a poem by Mir Taqi Mir where he says

What he says uh Uh where he says marte to sab hain Mir Uh damn. Uh it's kind of It's It's a classic of Mir Taqi Mir where he says uh where he says that everybody dies, but not with but what a tragedy.

He's kind of speaking about a tragedy that's befallen him. I think he says marte to sab hain Mir par na is bekasi ke sath. Something like that, I think. Royana koi Uh it's I've forgotten it. I read it a long time ago, but it's where he says that nobody cried out with your name upon your death.

That, you know, everybody dies, but not all go through such a tragedy that your death was a silent death. Like people didn't even cry for you. So, so this this this custom did exist. So, the prophet simply, to control that for a brief period, set some parameters. So, that's the Hadith that people are quoting.

Otherwise, the prophet after that said, "Look, the graves, visit them. They remind you of the afterlife." Um and in the Hadith, the wording is in the I had prohibited that you visit the graves. Visit them. That they remind you of of death.