[4/ 53] Passing in front of the one doing Sal?t nullifies the Sal?t itself -in some cases.

Ab? Hurairah ( - رضي الله عنه -) related that the prophet ( - ) said: ‘Sal?t is rendered null and void if a woman, a donkey or a black dog passes in front of the one doing Sal?t unless the latter puts a Sutrah the height of which is like that of a saddle’. (1)

Another similar narration related by Ibn ‘Abb?s ( - رضي الله عنه -) that the prophet ( - ) said: ‘Sal?t is considered null and void if a black dog or a mature woman passes in front of the one doing Sal?t’. (2)

Stating these three must be for a certain purpose and a feature not found in others. It was mentioned earlier that one losses some of his Sal?t’s reward if others pass in front of him and these three stated in the had?th do more than that; they render one’s Sal?t as null and void. (3)

Be ware, dear brother, of loosing the reward of your Sal?t by letting any of these three stated pass between you and your Sutrah.

[5/ 53] ‘Some people held that it is allowed for those carrying the dead to pass in front of a praying person. This opinion is not, however, held by any of the well-versed scholars -as far as I know- for no hard evidence supports it. Some claim that this could be done if one is carrying a dead and wants to bury it. Those who carry the dead could take any other way. Besides, people could perform the Funeral Sal?t any where and not necessarily in a mosque. The Sunnah is to perform the Funeral Sal?t in a special Musall?. Some scholars even held that it is impermissible to perform the funeral Sal?t in the mosque but there is no scope to refute this opinion here. In many occasions, people delay burying