Chapter 111
Remembrance 2 from Chapter 111
What to say after closing the eyes of the deceased
Arabic
Romanisation
Bismi-llāh, wa ‘alā millati Rasūli-llāh ṣalla-llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
Context
We relate in the Sunan of al-Bayhaqī with a ṣaḥīḥ isnād from Bakr ibn ‘Abdullāh, an eminent Tābi‘, that he said: “When you close the eyes of the deceased say: In the name of Allah and in the nation of the Messenger of Allah 
. And when you carry him say In the name of Allah, then glorify Allah for as long as you are carrying him.” [2].
References
[2] As-Sunan al-kubrā of al-Bayhaqī (3/385). According to Ibn Ḥajar this hadith is mawqūf up to Bakr ibn ‘Abdullāh. Al-Futūḥāt (4/117).