Mishkat al-Masabih #1586
Funerals
‘Abdallah b. Mas'ud reported God’s messenger as saying, “The bier should be followed and should not follow. Those who go in front of it are not accompanying it."
Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah transmitted it. Tirmidhi said that Abu Majid the transmitter is unknown.
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This hadith is #1586 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Funerals. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.