Muwatta' Malik 16-16
The Takbir Over a Dead Man
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ بْنِ سَهْلِ بْنِ حُنَيْفٍ
أَنَّهُ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّ مِسْكِينَةً مَرِضَتْ فَأُخْبِرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِمَرَضِهَا وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَعُودُ الْمَسَاكِينَ وَيَسْأَلُ عَنْهُمْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذَا مَاتَتْ فَآذِنُونِي بِهَا فَخُرِجَ بِجَنَازَتِهَا لَيْلاً فَكَرِهُوا أَنْ يُوقِظُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أُخْبِرَ بِالَّذِي كَانَ مِنْ شَأْنِهَا فَقَالَ أَلَمْ آمُرْكُمْ أَنْ تُؤْذِنُونِي بِهَا فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَرِهْنَا أَنْ نُخْرِجَكَ لَيْلاً وَنُوقِظَكَ فَخَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ حَتَّى صَفَّ بِالنَّاسِ عَلَى قَبْرِهَا وَكَبَّرَ أَرْبَعَ تَكْبِيرَاتٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik
- Ibn Shihāb
- Abū Umāmah b. Sahl b. Ḥunayf
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Abu Umama ibn Sahl ibn Hunayf told him that once a poor woman fell ill and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was told of her illness, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to visit poor people frequently and ask after them. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Let me know if she dies." Her bier was brought out at night- time and they did not want to wake up the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. In the morning the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was told what had happened to her and he said, "Didn't I tell you to let me know if she died?" They replied, "Messenger of Allah, we did not want to wake you up and make you come out in the night." Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went out and formed everyone into rows by her grave and said "Allah is greater" four times.
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
رويت الصلاة على القبر عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من ستة وجوه حسان كلها
machine translationThe prayer at the grave has been narrated from the Prophet ﷺ through six routes, all of them good (ḥasan).
in موطأ مالك, p. 492 - Zarqānī
مرسل
machine translationMursal (a report in which a Successor omits the Companion and attributes it directly to the Prophet ﷺ)
in موطأ مالك, p. 492 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
لم يختلف على مالك في إرساله في الموطأ وهذا حديث مسند متصل من وجوه
machine translationThere is no disagreement about Mālik having transmitted it as a mursal report in the Muwaṭṭaʾ, yet this is a hadith that is connected and traced back (musnad, muttaṣil) through several routes.
in موطأ مالك, p. 492
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 1527Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 12067al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7114al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7118
Narrators
- Counted among the Companions; he saw the Prophet ﷺ but did not hear from himd. 100 AHأَسْعَدُ بْنُ سَهْلِ بْنِ حُنَيْفٍمعدود في الصحابة ، له رؤية ، ولم يسمع من النبي صلى الله عليه وسلمأخبره
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
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Commentaries
al-Tamhīd (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr)
al-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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