Sunan Ibn Majah 4267
The grave and disintegration (of the body)
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ مَعِينٍ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بَحِيرٍ عَنْ هَانِئٍ مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَ قَالَ
كَانَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ إِذَا وَقَفَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ يَبْكِي حَتَّى يَبُلَّ لِحْيَتَهُ فَقِيلَ لَهُ تَذْكُرُ الْجَنَّةَ وَالنَّارَ وَلاَ تَبْكِي وَتَبْكِي مِنْ هَذَا قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ الْقَبْرَ أَوَّلُ مَنَازِلِ الآخِرَةِ فَإِنْ نَجَا مِنْهُ فَمَا بَعْدَهُ أَيْسَرُ مِنْهُ وَإِنْ لَمْ يَنْجُ مِنْهُ فَمَا بَعْدَهُ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُ قَالَ وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَا رَأَيْتُ مَنْظَرًا قَطُّ إِلاَّ وَالْقَبْرُ أَفْظَعُ مِنْهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
- Yaḥyá b. Maʿīn
- Hishām b. Yūsuf
- ʿAbdullāh b. Baḥīr
- Hāniʾ a freed slave of ʿUthmān
“When ‘Uthman bin ‘Affan stood beside a grave, he would weep until his beard became wet. It was said to him: ‘You remember Paradise and Hell, and you do not weep, but you weep for this?’ He said: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The grave is the first stage of the Hereafter. Whoever is delivered from it, what comes after it is easier. If he is not delivered from it, then what comes after it is harder.’” He said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “I have never seen any horrible scene but the grave is more horrible.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 132وَعَن عُثْمَان رَضِي الله عَنهُ أَنه إِذَا وَقَفَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ بَكَى حَتَّى يَبُلَّ لِحْيَتَهُ فَقِيلَ لَهُ تُذْكَرُ الْجَنَّةُ وَالنَّارُ فَلَا تَبْكِي وَتَبْكِي مِنْ هَذَا فَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَ
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 2308كَانَ عُثْمَانُ إِذَا وَقَفَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ بَكَى حَتَّى يَبُلَّ لِحْيَتَهُ فَقِيلَ لَهُ تُذْكَرُ الْجَنَّةُ وَالنَّارُ فَلاَ تَبْكِي وَتَبْكِي مِنْ هَذَا فَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ الْقَبْرَ أَوَّلُ مَنَازِلِ الآخِرَةِ فَإِن
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 454Musnad al-Bazzar 475al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1373al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7942
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةفي حكم العنعنة
- truthful (ṣadūq)هَانِئٍ مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَصدوقعن
- Ibn Maʿīn considered him trustworthy (thiqah), while the statements of Ibn Ḥibbān about him were inconsistent (iḍṭaraba)d. between 161 and 170 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بَحِيرٍوثقه ابن معين ، واضطرب فيه كلام ابن حبانعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 197 AH, or 199 AHهِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a well-known ḥāfiẓ, the imam of jarḥ wa-taʿdīl.d. 233 AH.يَحْيَى بْنُ مَعِينٍثقة حافظ مشهور ، إمام الجرح والتعديل.حدثني
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 270 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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