Funeral or prayer cards are frequently distributed at funerals as mementos of the deceased. They can also be valuable in genealogical research. (Photo by Danny Klein) When I first started ...

Most scholars are of the view that raising the hands is desirable in all the Takbeers of the funeral prayer; the Fiqh Encyclopedia reads: “The scholars of Fiqh unanimously agreed that the person ...

Every time I attend a funeral, I take one of those prayers cards stacked near the sign-in book. You know, the ones with the person’s dates of birth and death and sometimes a holy picture ...

According to the Hanbalis, the preponderant view is that the hands should be placed below the navel. Al-Muqni’ reads, “Then the praying ... prayers. In the Hanbali book of Fiqh Ar-Ri'aayah, the author ...