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3196. It was narrated from 'Abdullâh bin 'Abdullâh bin Jabr, from his father, that the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ visited Jabr (when he was sick). When he entered he heard the women crying and saying: "We thought that your death would come when fighting in the cause of Allâh." He said: "You think that martyrdom only comes when one is killed in the cause of Allâh. In that case your martyrs would be few. Being killed in the cause of Allâh is martyrdom, dying of an abdominal complaint is martyrdom, being burned to death is martyrdom, drowning is martyrdom, being crushed beneath a falling wall is martyrdom, dying of pleurisy is martyrdom, and the woman who dies along with her fetus is a martyr." A man said: "Are you weeping when the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ is sitting
here?" He said: "Let them be, but if he dies no one should weep for him." (Sahîh)
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Commentary
The Prophet's ﷺ saying, 'let them weep' is the evidence that wailing loudly over the dead is forbidden; there is no harm in crying, because crying or weeping is out of sympathy or compassion. It does not constitute wailing. And wailing is forbidden, not absolute weeping.
