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Musnad al-Bazzar 509

✧ Abu Sa'id al-Khudri on the authority of Ali

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، قَالَ: نَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الصُّدَائِيُّ، عَنْ سَعْدَانَ الْجُهَنِيِّ، عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ الْعَوْفِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، قَالَ:

سَأَلْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ: أَيُّهُمَا أَفْضَلُ الْمَشْيُ خَلْفَ الْجِنَازَةِ أَوْ أَمَامَهَا ؟ فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ، وَمِثْلُكَ يَسْأَلُ عَنْ هَذَا ؟ فَقُلْتُ: وَمَنْ يَسْأَلُ عَنْ هَذَا إِلَّا مِثْلِي ؟ إِنِّي رَأَيْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرَ يَمْشِيَانِ أَمَامَهَا، فَقَالَ: رَحِمَهُمَا اللهُ وَغَفَرَ لَهُمَا، أَمَا وَاللهِ لَقَدْ سَمِعَا كَمَا سَمِعْنَا وَلَكِنَّهُمَا كَانَا سَهْلَيْنِ يُحِبَّانِ السُّهُولَةَ، يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ إِذَا مَشَيْتَ خَلْفَ أَخِيكَ الْمُسْلِمِ فَأَنْصِتْ وَفَكِّرْ فِي نَفْسِكِ كَأَنَّكَ قَدْ صِرْتَ مِثْلَهُ، أَخُوكَ كَانَ يُشَاحُّكَ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا، خَرَجَ مِنْهَا حَرِيبًا سَلِيبًا، لَيْسَ لَهُ إِلَّا مَا تَزَوَّدَ مِنْ عَمَلٍ صَالِحٍ، فَإِذَا بَلَغْتَ الْقَبْرَ، فَجَلَسَ النَّاسُ فَلَا تَجْلِسْ، وَلَكِنْ قُمْ عَلَى شَفِيرِ قَبْرِهِ، فَإِذَا دُلِّيَ فِي حُفْرَتِهِ فَقُلْ: " بِسْمِ اللهِ وَفِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ، وَعَلَى مِلَّةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، اللَّهُمَّ عَبْدُكَ نَزَلَ بِكَ، وَأَنْتَ خَيْرُ مَنْزُولٍ بِهِ، خَلَّفَ الدُّنْيَا خَلْفَ ظَهْرِهِ، فَاجْعَلْ مَا قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِ خَيْرًا مِمَّا خَلَّفَ، فَإِنَّكَ قُلْتَ: وَمَا عِنْدَ اللهِ خَيْرٌ لِلأَبْرَارِ، ثُمَّ احْثُ عَلَيْهِ ثَلَاثَ حَثَيَاتٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Ayyūb
  2. ʿAlī b. Yazīd al-Ṣudāʾī
  3. Saʿdān al-Juhanī
  4. ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī
  5. Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

✧ I asked Ali b. Abi Talib: 'O Abu al-Hasan, which is better: walking behind the funeral procession or in front of it?' He said: 'O Abu Sa'id, does someone like you ask about this?' I said: 'Who would ask about this except someone like me? I saw Abu Bakr and Umar walking in front of it.' He said: 'May Allah have mercy on them and forgive them. By Allah, they heard as we heard, but they were easy-going and liked ease. O Abu Sa'id, when you walk behind your Muslim brother, be silent and reflect within yourself, as though you have become like him. Your brother used to contend with you over worldly matters, but he left it destitute and stripped, with nothing except what he had stored up of righteous deeds. When you reach the grave and the people sit down, do not sit, but stand at the edge of his grave. When he is lowered into his pit, say: "In the name of Allah, and in the path of Allah, and upon the religion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. O Allah, Your servant has come down to You, and You are the best to be come down to. He has left the world behind his back, so make what he has gone ahead to better than what he has left behind, for You have said: 'And what is with Allah is better for the righteous.'" Then throw three handfuls of earth upon him.'

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