Sunan Abi Dawud 3166
Rows In The Funeral Prayer
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ مَرْثَدٍ الْيَزَنِيِّ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَمُوتُ فَيُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ ثَلاَثَةُ صُفُوفٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلاَّ أَوْجَبَ قَالَ فَكَانَ مَالِكٌ إِذَا اسْتَقَلَّ أَهْلَ الْجَنَازَةِ جَزَّأَهُمْ ثَلاَثَةَ صُفُوفٍ لِلْحَدِيثِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd
- Ḥammād
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
- Yazīd b. Abū Ḥabīb
- Marthad al-Yazanī
- Mālik b. Hubayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: If any Muslim dies and three rows of Muslims pray over him, it will assure him (of Paradise). When Malik considered those who accompanied a bier to be a few, he divided them into three rows in accordance with this tradition.
Notes
قَالَ فَكَانَ مَالِكٌ إِذَا اسْتَقَلَّ أَهْلَ الْجَنَازَةِ جَزَّأَهُمْ ثَلاَثَةَ صُفُوفٍ لِلْحَدِيثِ
Grades by grader
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
|---|---|---|
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Good Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 3166 | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Tirmidhi
حديث حسن
machine translationA good (ḥasan) hadith.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3164 - al-Albani
ضعيف لكن الموقوف حسن
in ضعيف أبي داود, p. 3166
Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 934إذا صلى علي الجنازة، فتقال الناس عليها، جزأهم عليها ثلاثة أجزاء، ثم قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: “من صلى عليه ثلاثة صفوف، فقد أوجب “
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 1028كَانَ مَالِكُ بْنُ هُبَيْرَةَ إِذَا صَلَّى عَلَى جَنَازَةٍ فَتَقَالَّ النَّاسَ عَلَيْهَا جَزَّأَهُمْ ثَلاَثَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَنْ صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ ثَلاَثَةُ صُفُوفٍ فَقَدْ أَوْجَبَ
- Misykatul Mashabih 1687وَعَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَمُوتُ فَيُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ ثَلَاثَةُ صُفُوفٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلَّا أَوْجَبَ». فَكَانَ مَالِكٌ إِذَا اسْتَقَلَ
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 1490al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17745Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11743al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7006al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1341
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. in the days of Marwān b. al-Ḥakamمَالِك بْن هُبَيْرَة السَّكُونِيّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 90 AHمَرْثَدٍ الْيَزَنِيِّثقة فقيهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AHيَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسلعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AHحَمَّادٌثقة ثبت ، فقيه.نا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 238 AH, also said: 237 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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