Muwatta' Malik 16-2
Washing the Dead
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ بْنِ أَبِي تَمِيمَةَ السَّخْتِيَانِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ عَنْ أُمِّ عَطِيَّةَ الأَنْصَارِيَّةِ
قَالَتْ دَخَلَ عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ حِينَ تُوُفِّيَتِ ابْنَتُهُ فَقَالَ اغْسِلْنَهَا ثَلاَثًا أَوْ خَمْسًا أَوْ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ إِنْ رَأَيْتُنَّ ذَلِكَ بِمَاءٍ وَسِدْرٍ وَاجْعَلْنَ فِي الآخِرَةِ كَافُورًا أَوْ شَيْئًا مِنْ كَافُورٍ فَإِذَا فَرَغْتُنَّ فَآذِنَّنِي قَالَتْ فَلَمَّا فَرَغْنَا آذَنَّاهُ فَأَعْطَانَا حِقْوَهُ فَقَالَ أَشْعِرْنَهَا إِيَّاهُ تَعْنِي بِحِقْوِهِ إِزَارَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik
- Ayyūb b. Abū Tamīmah al-Sakhtiyānī
- Muḥammad b. Sīrīn
- Um ʿAṭiyyah al-Anṣāriyyah
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ayyub ibn Abi Tamima as- Sakhtayani from Muhammad ibn Sirin that Umm Atiyya al-Ansariyya said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to us when his daughter died and said, 'Wash her three times, or five, or more than that if you think it necessary, with water and lotus leaves, and at the end put on some camphor, or a little camphor, and when you have finished let me know.' When we finished we told him, and he gave us his waist-wrapper and said, 'Shroud her with this.' "
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- إبراهيم بن المنذر الحزامي
ليس في أحاديث غسل الميت أصح منه ولا أعم وعليه عول العلماء
machine translationAmong the hadiths on washing the deceased, there is none more authentic (aṣaḥḥ) than this one, nor more comprehensive, and the scholars have relied upon it.
in موطأ مالك, p. 479 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
ليس في أحاديث غسل الميت أصح منه ولا أعم وعليه عول العلماء
machine translationAmong the hadiths on washing the deceased, there is none more authentic (aṣaḥḥ) than this one, nor more comprehensive, and the scholars have relied upon it.
in موطأ مالك, p. 479
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 1253Sahih al-Bukhari 1261Sunan an-Nasa'i 1893Sunan an-Nasa'i 1894al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2032al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2033
Narrators
- Female Companion (ṣaḥābiyyah)d. she lived until around the year 70 AHنُسَيْبَةُ بِنْتُ كَعْبٍ الْمَازِنِيَّةُصحابيةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنىعن
- 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 AHأَيُّوبَ بْنِ أَبِي تَمِيمَةَ السَّخْتِيَانِيِّثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العبادعن
- 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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