💐 In The Name Of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful
📋 Question: "We found a dead person tied to a tree and around his neck was a rope. We do not know if he killed himself with it, or someone hung him there after killing him (so it appears as if he took his own life). If this man committed suicide, can the Muslims pray over his body?"
Summarized answer:
If the individual who died was known to be Muslim, whether he committed the major sin of suicide or he was murdered, a number of Muslims should pray the funeral/Janaaza prayer over him. A Muslim's sins, major or minor, do not cancel the obligation of some Muslims to pray over him and wash his body. He is also allowed to be buried in a Muslim cemetery since suicide does not take a person outside of the fold of Islam.
Allah the Almighty is the One to decide who He forgives and grants entry to Jannah Paradise.
May Allah the Most Merciful forgive all Muslims, grant the Muslim Ummah more guidance and patience to deal with the temporary trials in dunya. Ameen.
📖 Sahl Ibn Sa’d RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Verily, a man may appear to the people as doing the deeds of the people of Paradise, yet he is among the people of Hellfire. Verily, a man may appear to the people as doing the deeds of the people of Hellfire, yet he is among the people of Paradise."
Source: Sahih Al-Bukhari 2742
Sahih Muslim 112
Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi (Authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim
📖 Abu Huraira RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Let none of you wish for death. If he is righteous, he might increase his good deeds. If he is sinful, he might repent."
In another narration, the Prophet SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "When one of you dies, his deeds come to an end. Verily, the life of a believer does not increase but in goodness."
Source: Sahih Al-Bukhari 6808
Grade: Sahih (Authentic) according to Al-Bukhari
📖 Abu Huraira RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Whoever kills himself with a piece of iron, his piece of iron in his hand will be thrust into his stomach in the fire of Hell forever and ever. Whoever drinks poison and kills himself, he will consume it in the fire of Hell forever and ever. Whoever throws himself off a mountain and kills himself, he will tumble into the fire of Hell forever and ever."
Source: Sahih Al-Bukhari 5442
Sahih Muslim 109
Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi (Authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim
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