Sunan Abi Dawud 3151

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was shrouded in three garments of white Yemeni stuff, among which was neither a shirt nor a turban.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  هذا أثبت حديث يروى في كفن الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم

  machine translationThis is the most firmly established hadith narrated about the shrouding of the Messenger ﷺ. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3149
• al-Tirmidhi

  قال الترمذي حسن صحيح وحديث عائشة أصح الروايات التي رويت في كفن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3149
• Dāraquṭnī

  رواه هشام بن عروة واختلف عنه في متنه فرواه الدراوردي عن هشام عن أبيه عن عائشة أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كفن في ثلاثة أثواب سحولية ولحد له ونصب عليه اللبن نصبا وخالفه جماعة من أصحاب هشام منهم الثوري وأبو ضمرة وعبيد الله بن عمرو الرقي وشعيب بن إسحاق وعبد الله بن نمير وعمر بن علي وأبو معاوية وزمعة بن صالح عن هشام ولم يذكروا فيه اللحد ولا اللبن تفرد بذلك الدراوردي عن هشام ورواه مكحول عن عروة عن عائشة ولم يذكر فيه أيضا اللحد ولا اللبن وهو المحفوظ عن هشام بن عروة

  machine translationHishām b. ʿUrwah narrated it, and there is disagreement about him regarding its text (matn). Al-Darāwardī narrated it from Hishām, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah: that the Prophet ﷺ was shrouded in three Saḥūlī garments, and a niche-grave (laḥd) was dug for him and mud bricks were set up over him. A group of Hishām's students contradicted him, among them al-Thawrī, Abū Ḍamrah, ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAmr al-Raqqī, Shuʿayb b. Isḥāq, ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr, ʿUmar b. ʿAlī, Abū Muʿāwiyah and Zamʿah b. Ṣāliḥ, from Hishām; they did not mention in it the niche-grave or the mud bricks. Al-Darāwardī alone related that from Hishām. Makḥūl also narrated it from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, and he too did not mention in it the niche-grave or the mud bricks. That is the preserved (maḥfūẓ) version from Hishām b. ʿUrwah. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3149
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  حديثها من جهة الإسناد أثبت

  machine translationHer hadith is the more firmly established in terms of the chain of transmission (isnād). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3149

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1271Sahih Muslim 941dal-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6781al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4409

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   أخبرتني
2. 2
   ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
   أَبِيثقة فقيه مشهور
   أخبرني
3. 3
   Hishām b. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
   هِشَامٍثقة فقيه ربما دلس
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   نا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.