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 "id": "concept/ritha-fiqh",
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 "slug": "ritha-fiqh",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الرثاء",
  "en": "Ritha' (praising the dead in verse or speech): its meaning and its ruling",
  "ur": "مرثیہ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الرثاء في اللغة الترحم على الميت وبكاؤه ومدحه وتعداد محاسنه، وعند الفقهاء مدح الميت وذكر محاسنه. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8622} ويفرق عن التأبين وهو البكاء على الميت والثناء عليه، وعن الندب وهو ذكر محاسن الميت. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8622} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623} لا بأس عند الحنفية بترثية الميت بشعر أو غيره، لكن يُكره الإفراط في مدحه، لا سيما عند جنازته، وكره النووي ذكر آبائه وخصائله، والأولى الاستغفار له. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623} وعند الحنابلة ما يُهيّج المصيبة من وعظ أو إنشاد شعر فهو من النياحة المنهي عنها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623}",
  "en": "Ritha' in the lexicon is compassion for the dead, weeping, praise and recounting his virtues, and in the jurists' sense it is praising the dead and recounting his good qualities. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8622} It is distinguished from ta'bin, weeping and praising the dead, and from nadb, recounting his virtues. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8622} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623} The Hanafis allow an elegy in verse or prose, but dislike excessive praise, especially at the funeral; al-Nawawi disliked recounting the dead's ancestors, and preferred asking forgiveness for him. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623} The Hanbalis count as forbidden wailing whatever stirs grief through preaching or recited verse. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623}",
  "ur": "مرثیہ میں میت کی خوبیاں بیان کرنا جائز ہے، مگر حد سے زیادہ تعریف مکروہ ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "health-body-death",
  "ethics-and-character"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «الرثاء»، ص 8622-8623 من المسح",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
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  },
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  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; headword read on scan pages 8622-8623; hadiths and verses named, not typed; footnote citations omitted; Urdu is a short draft."
  }
 },
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الرثاء في اللغة الترحم على الميت وبكاؤه ومدحه وتعداد محاسنه، وعند الفقهاء مدح الميت وذكر محاسنه. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8622} ويفرق عن التأبين وهو البكاء على الميت والثناء عليه، وعن الندب وهو ذكر محاسن الميت. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8622} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623} لا بأس عند الحنفية بترثية الميت بشعر أو غيره، لكن يُكره الإفراط في مدحه، لا سيما عند جنازته، وكره النووي ذكر آبائه وخصائله، والأولى الاستغفار له. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623} وعند الحنابلة ما يُهيّج المصيبة من وعظ أو إنشاد شعر فهو من النياحة المنهي عنها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623}"
    }
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    "id": "concept/ritha-fiqh",
    "lang": "ar",
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    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ritha' in the lexicon is compassion for the dead, weeping, praise and recounting his virtues, and in the jurists' sense it is praising the dead and recounting his good qualities. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8622} It is distinguished from ta'bin, weeping and praising the dead, and from nadb, recounting his virtues. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8622} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623} The Hanafis allow an elegy in verse or prose, but dislike excessive praise, especially at the funeral; al-Nawawi disliked recounting the dead's ancestors, and preferred asking forgiveness for him. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623} The Hanbalis count as forbidden wailing whatever stirs grief through preaching or recited verse. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ritha-fiqh",
    "lang": "en",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "مرثیہ میں میت کی خوبیاں بیان کرنا جائز ہے، مگر حد سے زیادہ تعریف مکروہ ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8623}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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    "status": "draft"
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
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 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-huzn",
  "concept/aql",
  "concept/hadhayan-fiqh",
  "concept/iyada",
  "concept/moustache-rules",
  "concept/narcotics",
  "concept/niyaha-fiqh",
  "concept/sinn"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}