Sunan Ibn Majah 1462
What was narrated concerning washing the deceased
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمُحَارِبِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
مَنْ غَسَّلَ مَيِّتًا وَكَفَّنَهُ وَحَنَّطَهُ وَحَمَلَهُ وَصَلَّى عَلَيْهِ وَلَمْ يُفْشِ عَلَيْهِ مَا رَأَى خَرَجَ مِنْ خَطِيئَتِهِ مِثْلَ يَوْمِ وَلَدَتْهُ أُمُّهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Muḥāribī
- ʿAbbād b. Kathīr
- ʿAmr b. Khālid
- Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
- ʿAlī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“Whoever washes a deceased person, shrouds him, embalms him, carries him and offers the funeral prayer for him, and does not disclose what he has seen, he will emerge from his sins as on the day his mother bore him.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Fabrication SuspectedAnother source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sanad Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Extremely Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 280 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- ابن عدي
وهذه الأحاديث التي يرويها عمرو بن خالد عن حبيب بن أبي ثابت ليست هي بمحفوظة ولا يرويها غيره وهو المتهم فيها
machine translationThese ahadith which ʿAmr b. Khālid narrates from Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit are not preserved (maḥfūẓ), and no one other than him narrates them, and he is the one accused regarding them.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1526 - ابن عدي
عامة ما يرويه موضوعات
machine translationMost of what he narrates is fabricated (mawḍūʿāt).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1526 - الزيلعى
عمرو بن خالد هذا متهم بالوضعراو فى الحديث
machine translationThis ʿAmr b. Khālid is accused of fabrication (waḍʿ) in hadith.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1526 - Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
هذا إسناد ضعيف فيه عمر بن خالد كذبه أحمد وابن معين
machine translationThis is a weak (ḍaʿīf) chain, in which is ʿUmar b. Khālid, whom Aḥmad and Ibn Maʿīn declared a liar.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1526
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 24881al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3579al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 9300Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11266Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 6145al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6757
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوقعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an eminent jurist; he often narrated mursal reports (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs).d. 119 AH, or 122 AHحَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليسعن
- abandoned (matrūk)d. after 120 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ خَالِدٍمتروكعن
- abandoned (matrūk)d. between 141 and 150 AHعَبَّادُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍمتروكحدثنا
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 195 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمُحَارِبِيُّلا بأس بهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 233 AH, or shortly before or shortly after it, also said: 235 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابدحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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