Muwatta' Malik 16-45
Digging Up Graves
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حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِي الرِّجَالِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أُمِّهِ عَمْرَةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَهَا تَقُولُ
لَعَنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْمُخْتَفِيَ وَالْمُخْتَفِيَةَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá
- Mālik
- Abū al-Rijāl Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Ummih ʿAmrah Bint ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Samiʿahā
Yahya related to me from Malik that Abu'r-Rijal Muhammad ibn Abd ar-Rahman heard his mother Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman say, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed both men and women who dug up," meaning those who dug up graves.
Notes
يَعْنِي نَبَّاشَ الْقُبُورِ
machine translationMeaning: one who digs up graves.
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
مرسل
machine translationMursal (a report in which a Successor omits the Companion and attributes it directly to the Prophet ﷺ)
in موطأ مالك, p. 516 - Dāraquṭnī
وهو الصحيح
machine translationAnd this is the correct one (ṣaḥīḥ).
in موطأ مالك, p. 516 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
ذكرناه لمالك مسندا وليس في الموطأ إلا مرسلا عن عمرة وهو الصحيح فيه عن مالك
machine translationWe have mentioned it for Mālik as a connected report (musnad), but in the Muwaṭṭaʾ it is found only as a mursal report from ʿAmrah, and that is the correct (ṣaḥīḥ) version from Mālik.
in موطأ مالك, p. 516
Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Ḥassān al-Ziyādī said: it is said she died in the year ninety-eight. Abū ʿUbayd Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá Ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ said: she died in 106 AH; Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim said: she died in 103 AH.عَمْرَة بِنْت عَبْد الرَّحْمَن الْأَنْصَارِيَّةثقةسمع
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 and 130 AHأَبِي الرِّجَالِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقةعن
- 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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
al-Tamhīd (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr)
al-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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