What Is The Ruling On Standing Up When Seeing A Funeral Being Carried?

What is the ruling on standing up when seeing a funeral being carried?

According to Islam, all humans are respectable whether they are Muslim or not. There are verses in the Holy Qur’an referring to this aspect of humans (Isra, 17/70). People deserve to be respectedalso after death just like they do when they are alive. For this reason, one should avoid from acting against this respectability both before and after burial. The Prophet Muhammad (saw) stood up for a funeral being carried near him and when others informed him that it was the corpse of a Jew he said, “Was not he a human?” (Bukhari, Jana’iz, 49; Nasa’i, Jana’iz, 45-47). Another hadith about this subject reads as follows, “If one of you sees a funeral procession, then he should stand and remain standing till he gets behind it or it leaves him behind.” (Bukhari, Jana’iz, 47) Therefore, if possible, it complies with sunnah to stand up while a funeral is being carried.

Source: Presidency Of Religious Affairs The Turkey, High Board of Religious Affairs FATWA