On rising for a passing funeral
He stood for one, and was told whose it was.
أَلَيْسَتْ نَفْسًا
A funeral passed and he stood. They said: it is the funeral of a Jew. He said: was it not a soul?
The full narration
Narrated `Abdur Rahman bin Abi Laila:Sahl bin Hunaif and Qais bin Sa`d were sitting in the city of Al-Qadisiya. A funeral procession passed in front of them and they stood up. They were told that funeral procession was of one of the inhabitants of the land i.e. of a non-believer, under the protection of Muslims. They said, "A funeral procession passed in front of the Prophet (ﷺ) and he stood up. When he was told that it was the coffin of a Jew, he said, "Is it not a living being (soul)?
Source
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī · 1312
Ṣaḥīḥ
- Agreed upon as authentic (al-Bukhārī / Muslim)