Chapter 128
Remembrance 5 from Chapter 128
What visitors to graveyards should say
Arabic

Romanisation
As-salāmu ‘alaykum ahla-d-diyāri mina-l-mu’minīn, wa innā in shā’a-llāhu bikum la-lāḥiqūn, as’alu-llāha lanā wa lakum al-‘āfiyah.
Context
We relate in the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim from Buraydah
, who reported that the Messenger of Allah
taught his Companions that when they visited graves they should say: “Peace be upon you, believing inhabitants of these dwellings. We shall, if Allah wills, be joining you. I ask Allah for well-being for us and for you.” [5].We relate also from an-Nasā’ī and Ibn Mājah, adding after his statement ‘shall be joining’ (al-lāḥiqūn) ‘and you are our predecessors while we are your followers’.
References
[5] Muslim (975), an-Nasā’ī (4/94), and Ibn Mājah (1547).