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
- Hishām b. ʿAmmār
- al-Bakhtarī b. ʿUbayd
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
- 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 Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī | Weak Chainin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1573 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 296 | fawazahmed0, 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
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11704Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30457Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 6656al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6888al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6889
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- unknown (majhūl)أَبِيهِمجهولعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf), abandoned (matrūk)d. between 171 and 180 AHالْبَخْتَرِيُّ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍضعيف ، متروكحدثنا
- 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 AHهِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصححدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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