among the Companions would recite the basmala aloud. According to the majority of the leading imams, who do not regard raising the voice for it as a fixed sunnah, this was merely to teach the congregation that pronouncing it during prayer is sunnah. In the same vein, it is rigorously authenticated that Ibn ʿAbbās once performed the Funeral Prayer and recited al-Fātiḥah—the Mother of the Qur’an—aloud, explaining that he had done so to let the people know that it is sunnah. Indeed, with respect to the Funeral Prayer people hold two views: one party maintains that no recitation at all is prescribed in it, as many have asserted