Chapter on Hastening the Funeral
941 – Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet ﷺ said, “Hasten with the funeral; for if the deceased was righteous, you are taking him forward to something good, and if he was otherwise, you are removing an evil from your necks.” Agreed upon. In another wording collected by Muslim: “then it is a good to which you are advancing him.”

942 – Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet ﷺ used to say, “When the bier is set down and the men lift it upon their shoulders, if the deceased was righteous it says, ‘Advance me, advance me!’ but if he was not righteous it says to its people, ‘Woe to it! Where are you taking it?’ Everything hears its voice except human beings, and if a human being were to hear it he would lose consciousness.” Narrated by al-Bukhārī.

[Commentary]
The author—may Allah have mercy on him—in his book Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn says: Chapter on hastening the funeral. Hastening the funeral includes speeding up its preparation, its procession, and its burial, for