Muwatta' Malik 16-18
What to Say in the Prayer for the Dead
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حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ
أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ كَيْفَ تُصَلِّي عَلَى الْجَنَازَةِ فَقَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَا لَعَمْرُ اللَّهِ أُخْبِرُكَ أَتَّبِعُهَا مِنْ أَهْلِهَا فَإِذَا وُضِعَتْ كَبَّرْتُ وَحَمِدْتُ اللَّهَ وَصَلَّيْتُ عَلَى نَبِيِّهِ ثُمَّ أَقُولُ: (اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّهُ عَبْدُكَ وَابْنُ عَبْدِكَ وَابْنُ أَمَتِكَ، كَانَ يَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُكَ وَرَسُولُكَ، وَأَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ بِهِ، اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كَانَ مُحْسِنًا فَزِدْ فِي إِحْسَانِهِ، وَإِنْ كَانَ مُسِيئًا فَتَجَاوَزْ عَنْ سَيِّئَاتِهِ، اللَّهُمَّ لاَ تَحْرِمْنَا أَجْرَهُ وَلاَ تَفْتِنَّا بَعْدَهُ.)
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá
- Mālik
- Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī
- his father
Yahya related to me from Malik from Said ibn Abi Said al-Maqburi from his father that he had asked Abu Hurayra, "How do you pray over the dead?" and Abu Hurayra replied, "By the Life of Allah, I will tell you! I follow with the family and when the corpse is put down I say 'Allah is greater' and praise Allah and ask for blessings on His Prophet. Then I say, 'O Allah, he is Your slave and the son of Your male slave and Your female slave. He used to testify that there is no god but You and that Muhammad is Your slave and Your Messenger, and You know that best. O Allah, if he acted well, then increase for him his good action, and if he acted wrongly, then overlook his wrong actions. O Allah, do not deprive us of his reward, and do not try us after him.'" Allahumma inna huwa abduka wa'bnu abdika wa'bnu amatika. Kana yash-hadu an la ilaha illa ant wa anna Muhammadan abduka wa rasooluka, wa anta alamu bihi. Allahumma in kana muhsinan zid fi ihsanihi, wa in kana musiyan fa tajawaz an sayatihi. Allahumma la tahrimna ajrahu wa lataftina badahu.
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Mauquf Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
والمحفوظ ما قاله مالك
machine translationWhat is preserved (maḥfūẓ) is what Mālik said.
in موطأ مالك, p. 494
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 3073Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 6476al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7080Musnad Abi Ya'la 6604al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1329al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1067
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 الصحابةفقال
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. during ʿAbd al-Malik's caliphate, or in the caliphate of al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik, or the year 100 AH, al-Ṭaḥāwī said: died in the year 125 AH, and this is a mistake on his part; for it is actually the year his son Saʿīd diedأَبِيهِثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلةعن
- 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-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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