Ṣalāt al-Janāzah (Arabic: صلاة الجنازة) is the name of the special prayer that accompanies an Islamic funeral.

[2] Consensus on performing the funeral prayer when the body is not present varies among Islamic schools of thought.

It is preferable that those praying divide themselves into odd rows with one person as an imam standing alone in front and while facing the qiblah.

The spoken part of the prayer involves quietly reciting sura Al-Fatiha, then praying for God to bestow peace, mercy and blessings on Muhammad, and finally saying two du'as.

According to an authentic hadith, Muhammad did not say the burial prayers of a person who committed suicide;[5] Jabir b. Samura reported: [The dead body] of a person who had killed himself with a broad-headed arrow was brought before the Apostle of Allah, but he did not offer prayers for him.