Funeral & Burial

Then, there are details in relation to Hazrat Umar’s (ra) funeral and burial. Hazrat Umar’s (ra) son, Hazrat Abdullah (ra) performed the ghusal [washing the body] of Hazrat Umar (ra). It is related from Ibn Umar that Hazrat Umar’s (ra) funeral prayer was led in Masjid al-Nabawi and the prayer was led by Hazrat Suhaib (ra). The funeral prayer took place in the area between the pulpit and the grave of the Holy Prophet (sa).

Hazrat Jabir (ra) narrates that the people who lowered Hazrat Umar (ra) into the grave were: Uthman (ra) bin Affan, Saeed (ra) bin Zaid, Suhaib (ra) bin Sinan and Abdullah bin Umar (ra).

(Ibn Saad, Al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, Vol. 3, Fi Dhikr Isthiklaf Umar (ra) bin al-Khattab [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, 1990] pp. 261-279) (Ali Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah fi Ma‘rifat al-Sahabah, Vol. 4 [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, 2003], p. 166)

In addition to them, the names of Hazrat Ali (ra), Hazrat Abdur Rahman (ra) bin Auf, Hazrat Saad bin Abi Waqas (ra), Hazrat Talha (ra) and Hazrat Zubair (ra) bin Al-Awam are also mentioned.

(Muhammad Husain Haikal, Hazrat Umar Farooq A‘zam [translated] [Lahore, Pakistan: Islami Kutub Khana], pp. 867-868) (Al-Faruq, Shibli Nomani, p. 169, Dar al-Isha‘ah, Karachi, 1991)