‏الصلاة : Hadeeth No:2059 Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: Make haste at a funeral; if the dead person was good, it is a good state to which you are sending him on; but if he was otherwise it is an evil of which you are ridding yourselves....

‏الجهاد والسير‏ : Hadeeth No:4350 The same hadith has been narrated by a different chain of transmitters with a slight variation in wording: 'Umar b. al-Khattab sent for me and said: Some families from your tribe have come to me (then follows the foregoing hadith) by Malik with the difference that the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaah...