Urge Hasten Punishment
afterlifeRelated Hadiths
Make haste at a funeral; if the dead person was good, it is a good state to which you are sending him on; but if he was otherwise it is an evil of which you are ridding yourselves.
Hasten at a funeral, for if (the dead person) is good, you would (soon) bring him close to the good. And if it is otherwise, it is an evil of which you are ridding yourselves.
Fast if you like and break it if you like.
" Then hasten on from where the people hasten on."
Verily the people have begun to hasten in the matter in which they are required to observe respite. So if we had imposed this upon them, and he imposed it upon them.
“Do not delay the funeral once it is ready.”
“If one who can afford it delays repayment, his honor and punishment become permissible.”
“Give the worker his wages before his sweat dries.”
“Ward off the legal punishments as much as you can.”
“Stone the upper and the lower, stone them both.”