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Sunan Ibn Majah 1509

What was narrated concerning offering the funeral prayer for a child

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْبَخْتَرِيُّ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ

صَلُّوا عَلَى أَطْفَالِكُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ مِنْ أَفْرَاطِكُمْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Hishām b. ʿAmmār
  2. al-Bakhtarī b. ʿUbayd
  3. his father
  4. Abū Hurayrah
  5. al-Nabī ﷺ

“The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘Offer the (funeral) prayer for your children, for they have gone ahead of you (i.e. to prepare your place in Paradise for you).”

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānīWeak Chainin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1573hadithunlocked
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiVery Daiffawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautVery Daiffawazahmed0
al-AlbaniWeakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 296fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

    في إسناده البحتري بن عبيد قال فيه أبو نعيم الأصبهاني والحاكم والنقاش روى عن أبيه موضوعات وضعفه أبو حاتم وابن عدي وابن حبان والدارقطني وكذبه الأزدي وقال يعقوب بن شيبة مجهول

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1573
  • Dāraquṭnī

    ضعفه وقال البختري ضعيف وأبوه مجهول

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1573

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. unknown (majhūl)
    أَبِيهِمجهول
    عن
  3. weak (ḍaʿīf), abandoned (matrūk)d. between 171 and 180 AH
    الْبَخْتَرِيُّ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍضعيف ، متروك
    حدثنا
  4. Truthful (ṣadūq), a Quran reciter (muqriʾ); in old age he began to accept prompting (talqīn), so his earlier hadith are sounderd. 244 AH, or: 245 AH, or: 246 AH
    هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصح
    حدثنا
  5. one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ 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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