Ali ibn Shammakh said: I was present with Marwan who asked Abu Hurairah: Did you hear how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray over the dead? He said: Even with the words that you said. (The narrator said: They exchanged hot words between them before that. ) Abu Hurairah said: O Allah, Thou art its Lord. Thou didst create it, Thou didst guide it to Islam, Thou hast taken its spirit, and Thou knowest best its inner nature and outer aspect. We have come as intercessors, so forgive him. Abu Dawud said: Shubah made a mistake in mentioning the name of Ali bin Shammakh. He said in his version: Uthman bin Shammas. Abu Dawud said: I heard Ahmad bin Ibrahim al-Mawsili say that Ahmad bin Hanbal said: In every meeting which I attended with Hammad bin Zaid he forbade to narrate this traditions from Abd al-Warith and Jafar bin Sulaiman.

Narrated Abu Hurairah: 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.

Narrated Wathilah ibn al-Asqa: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ led us in prayer over bier of a Muslim and I heard him say: O Allah, so and so, son of so and so, is in Thy protection, so guard him from the trial in the grave. (Abdur Rahman in his version said: "In Thy protection and in Thy nearer presence, so guard him from the trial in the grave) and the punishment in Hell. Thou art faithful and worthy of praise. O Allah, forgive him and show him mercy. Thou art the forgiving and the merciful one. " Abdur Rahman said: "On the authority of Marwan ibn Janah. "