Hazrat Alqamah bin Qais narrates that when I returned from Syria, I said to Hazrat Abdullah: I saw Hazrat Mu’adh bin Jabal and his companions in Syria; they recite five takbeers in the funeral prayer. Please fix a number for us so that we may follow it. He lowered his head and remained silent for a while, then said: Recite as many takbeers as your imam recites; there is no fixed number.