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Sunan Ibn Majah 1560

What was narrated concerning digging the grave

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حَدَّثَنَا أَزْهَرُ بْنُ مَرْوَانَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلاَلٍ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّهْمَاءِ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

احْفِرُوا وَأَوْسِعُوا وَأَحْسِنُوا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Azhar b. Marwān
  2. ʿAbd al-Wārith b. Saʿīd
  3. Ayyūb
  4. Ḥumayd b. Hilāl
  5. Abū al-Dahmāʾ
  6. Hishām b. ʿĀmir
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“Dig the grave deep, make it spacious and prepare it well.”

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSahihfawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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  • Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

    قال ابن أبي حاتم في علله سألت أبي أي هذين الحديثين أصح فقال حديث حميد عن هشام يعني بدون واسطة

    machine translationIbn Abī Ḥātim said in his book of defects (ʿilal): I asked my father which of these two hadiths is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ), and he said: The hadith of Ḥumayd from Hishām, meaning without an intermediary.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1624

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 16256Musnad Ahmad 16262Musnad Ahmad 16263Musnad Ahmad 16264al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6855al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7030

Narrators

  1. Hishām b. ʿĀmir b. Umayyah al-Anṣārī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. lived until the time of Ziyād
    هِشَامُ بْنُ عَامِرِ بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. Abū al-Dahmāʾ
    trustworthy (thiqah)
    أَبِي الدَّهْمَاءِثقة
    عن
  3. Ḥumayd b. Hilāl al-ʿAdawī
    trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. during the governorship of Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh over Iraq
    حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍثقة عالم
    عن
  4. Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
    أَيُّوبُثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
    حدثنا
  5. ʿAbd al-Wārith
    trustworthy and firm (thiqah thabt); he was accused of belief in qadar (al-qadar), but this was not established about himd. 179 AH or 180 AH; also said: 178 AH
    عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت , رمي بالقدر ولم يثبت عنه
    حدثنا
  6. Azhar b. Marwān
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 243 AH
    أَزْهَرُ بْنُ مَرْوَانَصدوق
    حدثنا
  7. Ibn Mājah
    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

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Commentaries

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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