The funeral for Mohammed Yasin at a major mosque in Bay Shore was one of the largest there ever, attracting an overflow crowd of more than 1,000 people, community leaders said.

Then, despite a bone-chilling deluge that left a few inches of rain on the frozen ground at a cemetery in Mt. Sinai, hundreds stood outside for his burial services, said Ammad Sheikh, a Muslim community leader.

"It was freezing. It was windy. And it was raining buckets," said Sheikh, who attended the services at the Masjid Darul Quran mosque and Washington Memorial Park cemetery on Tuesday. "You just saw an ocean of umbrellas."

Yasin didn’t hold any prominent post in the mosque, in the community or in the professional world. He just ran a store. But he became a well-known and beloved figure for a simple reason: h

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