Sunan Ibn Majah 1503
What was narrated concerning saying four takbir in the funeral prayer
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمُحَارِبِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْهَجَرِيُّ قَالَ
صَلَيْتُ مَعَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي أَوْفَى الأَسْلَمِيِّ صَاحِبِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَلَى جِنَازَةِ ابْنَةٍ لَهُ فَكَبَّرَ عَلَيْهَا أَرْبَعًا فَمَكَثَ بَعْدَ الرَّابِعَةِ شَيْئًا قَالَ فَسَمِعْتُ الْقَوْمَ يُسَبِّحُونَ بِهِ مِنْ نَوَاحِي الصُّفُوفِ فَسَلَّمَ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَكُنْتُمْ تُرَوْنَ أَنِّي مُكَبِّرٌ خَمْسًا قَالُوا تَخَوَّفْنَا ذَلِكَ قَالَ لَمْ أَكُنْ لأَفْعَلَ وَلَكِنْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ يُكَبِّرُ أَرْبَعًا ثُمَّ يَمْكُثُ سَاعَةً فَيَقُولُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَقُولَ ثُمَّ يُسَلِّمُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Muḥāribī
- al-Hajarī
“I prayed with ‘Abdullah bin Abi Awfa Al-Aslami, the Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, offering the funeral prayer for a daughter of his. He said Takbir over her four times, and he paused for a while after the fourth. I heard the people saying Subhan- Allah to him throughout the rows. Then he said the Salam and said: ‘Did you think that I was going to say a fifth Takbir?’ They said: ‘We were afraid of that.’ He said: ‘I was not going to do that, but the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say four Takbir, then pause for a while, and he would say whatever Allah willed he should say, then he would say the Salam.’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
في إسناده الهجري واسمه إبراهيم بن مسلم الكوفي ضعفه سفيان بن عيينة ويحيى بن معين والنسائي وغيرهم
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1567
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 1346Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 3088Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 3090Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 3096al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7083Sunan al-Daraqutni 1354
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 80 AH, or 86 AH, or 87 AH, or 88 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَبِي أَوْفَى الْأَسْلَمِيّصحابيصريح في السماع
- Weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth); he raised statements that were only the Companions' (mawqūfāt) to the Prophet ﷺd. between 141 and 150 AHالْهَجَرِيُّلين الحديث ، رفع موقوفاتحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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