al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3968

Translation

✧ When a believing servant dies, the souls of the believers meet his soul and ask him, “What did so-and-so do?” When he says, “He died,” they say, “He has been taken to his mother, the pit. What a terrible mother and what a terrible nurse.”

Notes

• «هَذَا حَدِيثٌ مُرْسَلٌ صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ فَإِنِّي لَمْ أَجِدْ لِهَذِهِ السُّورَةِ تَفْسِيرًا عَلَى شَرْطِ الْكِتَابِ فَأَخْرَجْتُهُ إِذْ لَمْ أَسْتَجِزْ إِخْلَاءَهُ مِنْ حَدِيثٍ» مرسل

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• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  هذا حديث مرسل صحيح الإسناد

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  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 3990

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنُ الْبَصْرِيُّثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   عن
2. 2
   Mubārak b. Faḍālah

   Truthful (ṣadūq), practises concealment (tadlīs) including tadlīs al-taswiyahd. 164 AH, or 165 AH, or 166 AH
   الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَصدوق يدلس ويسوي
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Ādam

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, also said: 221 AH
   آدَمُ بْنُ أَبِي إِيَاسٍثقة عابد
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥusayn

   d. 281 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ دِيزِيلَ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Ḥasan al-Qāḍī

   d. 352 AH
   أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ ، عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْقَاضِي
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   al-Ḥākim

   d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
   الحاكم

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