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Sunan Ibn Majah 1521

What was narrated concerning the times when the funeral prayer should not be offered and the deceased should not be buried

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حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الأَوْدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْمَكِّيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

لاَ تَدْفِنُوا مَوْتَاكُمْ بِاللَّيْلِ إِلاَّ أَنْ تُضْطَرُّوا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAmr b. ʿAbdullāh al-Awdī
  2. Wakīʿ
  3. Ibrāhīm b. Yazīd al-Makkī
  4. Abū al-Zubayr
  5. Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“Do not bury your dead at night unless you are forced to.”

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Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautVery Daiffawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSahihfawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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  • Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

    روي في النهي عن الدفن بالليل حديث لا تقوم بإسناده حجة

    machine translationA hadith has been narrated concerning the prohibition of burial at night, but no proof (ḥujjah) can be established by its chain of transmission (isnād).

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1585

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Bulughul Maram 592{ لَا تَدْفِنُوا مَوْتَاكُمْ بِاللَّيْلِ إِلَّا أَنْ تُضْطَرُّوا }

Other narrations of this report

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11950Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11958

Narrators

  1. Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
    جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī
    Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AH
    أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلس
    عن
  3. Ibrāhīm b. Yazīd
    abandoned in hadith (matrūk al-ḥadīth)d. 150 AH, or 151 AH
    إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْمَكِّيِّمتروك الحديث
    عن
  4. Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ
    Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
    وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
    حدثنا
  5. ʿAmr b. ʿAbdullāh al-Awdī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 250 AH
    عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَوْدِيُّثقة
    حدثنا
  6. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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