The established ruling in the Hanbali school regarding prayer over a detached limb.

General Chapter

Al-Mughni

Book of Funerals

Book 7 · Issue 2 · Bab 1

Open in Qurani

Primary text

The established position held by Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal is that the funeral prayer is performed over the detached limbs of the deceased. Although a potential earlier position of Abu Abdillah suggested no prayer over limbs (*Jawarih*), the settled view is that prayer is performed over the limbs.