
1.) First a person should make an intention to pray a funeral prayer with four ‘takbeer’ with his face towards Kaba with an intention of pleasing Allah.
2.) Say ‘ allah-u-akbar’ and tie one’s hands; then one should read ‘thana’.
3.) One should add ‘wajalla thana-u-ka’ in the ‘thana’.
4.) Everyone would say the ‘takbeer’ and no one is allowed to look towards the sky.
5.) The hands should not be raised to the earlobes.
6.) Pray the same ‘darood’ read in the regular prayers
7.) After the third ‘takbeer’ one should read the prayer of funeral. People are allowed to read other prayers as well.
8.) If the deceased person is a female then use the proper pronoun for females. Instead of saying ‘hu’ one should say ‘ha’.
9.) If the person who died is an infant or a kid, then one should read the relevant dua.
Then finally one should say ‘salaam’ and leave the prayer.