Remembrance 2 from Chapter 124
Yā (name) ibnu (father’s name) udhkuri-l-‘ahda-lladhī kharajta ‘alayhi mina-d-dunyā: shahādatu an lā ilāha illa-llāh waḥdahu lā sharīka lah, wa anna Muḥammadan ‘abduhu wa Rasūluh, wa anna-s-sā‘ata ātiyatun lā rayba fīhā, wa anna-llāha yab‘athu man fi-l-qubūr. Qul: Raḍītu bi-llāhi Rabbā, wa bi-l-Islāmi dīnā, wa bi-Muḥammadin ṣalla-llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam Nabiyyā, wa bi-l-Ka‘bati qiblah, wa bi-l-Qur’āni imāmā, wa bi-l-Muslimīna ikhwānā, Rabbiya-llāhu lā ilāha illā Hū, wa Huwa Rabbu-l-‘Arshi-l-‘Aẓīm.
Prompting (talqīn) the deceased is mustaḥabb according to many of our colleagues, such as al-Qādī al-Ḥusayn in his Ta‘līq, the companion of Abū Sa‘d al-Mutawallī in his book at-Tatmiyyah, the Shaykh and ascetic Imam Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr al-Maqdisī, Imam Abū al-Qāsim ar-Rāfi‘ī, and others. Qāḍi al-Ḥusayn has transmitted it from his colleagues. As for its wording, Shaykh Naṣr said that upon completion of the burial one should stand at the head [of the grave] and say: O So-and-so, remember the pact that you left the world with: the testimony that there is no god but Allah, One without partner, and that Muḥammad is His slave and Messenger; that the Hour is coming and there is no doubt of it; and that Allah will resurrect all who are in the grave. Say: ‘I am pleased with Allah as my Lord, with Islam as my religion, with Muḥammad as my Messenger, with the Ka‘bah as my qiblah, with the Qur’ān as my Imam and with the Muslims as my brothers. My Lord is Allah; there is no god but Him, and He is the Lord of the Mighty Throne.’ This is the wording of Shaykh Abū Naṣr al-Maqdisī in his book al-Tahdhīb, and the wording from the rest is similar. In the wording of others there are shortcomings (naqṣ). Some say: O slave of Allah, son [or daughter] of the female slave of Allah; some say: O slave of Allah, son [or daughter] of Ḥawwā’; some say: O So-and-so—using his name—son [or daughter] of the female slave of Allah; or O So-and-so son [or daughter] of Ḥawwā’—all of which have the same sense.