2174 – ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm related to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad related to us; he said: ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad related to us; he said: Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn related to us; he said: Mubashshir ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥalabī related to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Lajlaj, from his father, who said to his children:

“When I die and you lower me into the lahd (side niche of the grave), throw earth over me generously and say, ‘Bismi-llāh wa ʿalā millati Rasūli-llāh (In the Name of Allah and upon the way of the Messenger of Allah).’ Then level the soil smoothly over me, and recite at my head the opening of Sūrat al-Baqarah and its closing verses, for I heard ʿAbd Allāh consider that recommended.” ʿAbd Allāh is ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.}