We encourage standing for the bier if a person sees it even if it is the funeral of an unbeliever
Ibn Hazm said: “We encourage standing for the bier if a person sees it even if it is the funeral of an unbeliever, until it passes by him or is placed upon the ground, and if he does not stand, there is no sin.” AbuMuhammadAli binAhmad bin Said IbnHazm, al-Muhalla bi al-Athar, Dar al-Fikr,Beirut, n.d., vol.5, p.153, hadithno.591. Al-ameen DD2023
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