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Bi-smi-llāhi wa billāhi wa ‘alā sunnati Rasūli-llāh (Tr. 10:53).
In the name of Allāh and With Allāh and according to the sunnah of the Messenger of Allāh.

The grave is then filled in and a prayer is again offered for the dead one and the people then depart (AD. 20:70). The funeral service of a child65 is similar to that of one who has reached the age of discretion, except that the prayer after the third takbīr is different :

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Allāh-umma-j‘al-hu la-nā faraṭ-an wa salaf-an wa dhukhr-an wa ajr-an (Bu. 23:66).66
O Allāh! Make him for us a cause of recompense in the life to come and as one going before and a treasure and a reward.

It will be seen that the funeral service for children is not a prayer for their forgiveness but a prayer that the young ones who have gone before may be a means of recompense and reward for the parents. There are other ḥadīth which speak of one afflicted with the death of young children as being made to enter Paradise: “A person, three of whose children die before reaching the age of discretion, is saved from the fire, or goes to Paradise” (Bu. 23:92). In the heading of his chapter, Bukhārī limits this to the offspring of Muslims (though there are no such words in the ḥadīth itself) and then adds a long ḥadīth in which the Holy Prophet saw in a vision “the children of all people”, i.e., Muslims as well as non-Muslims, around Abraham (Bu. 23:93). The word of this latter report are thus explained in another version of it: “As regards the children around Abraham, they are the children who die ‘ala-l-fiṭrah (lit., in the state in which they are born, that