Sunan Abi Dawud 3221
Praying For Forgiveness For The Deceased By The Grave At The Time Of Departing (Burial)
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حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى الرَّازِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بَحِيرٍ عَنْ هَانِئٍ مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ قَالَ
كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِذَا فَرَغَ مِنْ دَفْنِ الْمَيِّتِ وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ اسْتَغْفِرُوا لأَخِيكُمْ وَسَلُوا لَهُ التَّثْبِيتَ فَإِنَّهُ الآنَ يُسْأَلُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibrāhīm b. Mūsá al-Rāzī
- Hishām
- ʿAbdullāh b. Baḥīr
- Hāniʾ a freed slave of ʿUthmān
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
Whenever the Prophet ﷺ became free from burying the dead, he used to stay at him (i.e. his grave) and say: Seek forgiveness for your brother, and beg steadfastness for him, for he will be questioned now. Abu Dawud said: The full name of the narrator Buhair is Buhair b. Raisan.
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ بَحِيرُ بْنُ رَيْسَانَ
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 3221 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Good Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 3221 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī | Remains Silentin سنن أبي داود, p. 3220Another source records this grader as “Good” (hadithunlocked). | hadithunlocked |
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 133وَعَن عُثْمَان رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: كَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا فَرَغَ مِنْ دَفْنِ الْمَيِّتِ وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ: «اسْتَغْفِرُوا لِأَخِيكُمْ ثُمَّ سَلُوا لَهُ بِالتَّثْبِيتِ فَإِنَّهُ الْآنَ يُسْأَل
- Bulughul Maram 581{ كَانَ رَسُولُ اَللَّهِ - صلى الله عليه وسلم -إِذَا فَرَغَ مِنْ دَفْنِ الْمَيِّتِ وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ وَقَالَ: "اِسْتَغْفِرُوا لِأَخِيكُمْ وَسَلُوا لَهُ التَّثْبِيتَ, فَإِنَّهُ الْآنَ يُسْأَلُ" }
- Riyadhus Shalihin 946كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلمى الله عليه وسلم الله عليه وسلم الله عليه وسلم إذا فرغ من دفن الميت وقف عليه، وقال: "استغفروا لأخيكم وسلوا له التثبيت، فإنه الآن يسأل"
Other narrations of this report
Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 6555Musnad al-Bazzar 476al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1372
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)هَانِئٍ مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَصدوقعن
- Ibn Maʿīn considered him trustworthy (thiqah), while the statements of Ibn Ḥibbān about him were inconsistent (iḍṭaraba)d. between 161 and 170 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بَحِيرِ بْنِ رَيْسَانَوثقه ابن معين ، واضطرب فيه كلام ابن حبانعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 197 AH, or 199 AHهِشَامٌثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 219 AH, or 220-odd AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى الرَّازِيُّثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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