Eight pairs, and then two requests
Nobody present or absent is left outside it.
اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِحَيِّنَا وَمَيِّتِنَا وَصَغِيرِنَا وَكَبِيرِنَا وَذَكَرِنَا وَأُنْثَانَا وَشَاهِدِنَا وَغَائِبِنَا
Allāhumma-ghfir li-ḥayyinā wa mayyitinā, wa ṣaghīrinā wa kabīrinā, wa dhakarinā wa unthānā, wa shāhidinā wa ghāʾibinā
“O Allah, forgive our living and our dead, our young and our old, our male and our female, the one here and the one absent.”
Where this comes from
He said it standing over a funeral. It then goes on: whoever You keep alive among us, keep him alive on faith, and whoever You take, take him on submission. And do not deprive us of his reward, and do not lead us astray after him.
The full narration
Narrated AbuHurayrah: When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed over a dead person, he said: O Allah, forgive those of us who are living and those of us who are dead, those of us who are present and those of us who are absent, our young and our old, our male and our female. O Allah, to whomsoever of us Thou givest life grant him life as a believer, and whomsoever of us Thou takest in death take him in death as a follower of Islam. O Allah, do not withhold from us the reward (of faith) and do not lead us astray after his death
Source
Sunan Abī Dāwūd · 3201
- Al-Albani: Sahih
- Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul Hamid: Sahih
- Shuaib Al Arnaut: Hasan Sahih
- Zubair Ali Zai: Isnaad Hasan