Muwatta' Malik 16-53

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z Zinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A man said to his family that he had never done a good action, and that when he died they were to burn him and then scatter half of him on the land and half of him on the sea, and by Allah, if Allah destined it for him He would punish him with a punishment which He had not punished anyone else with in all the worlds. When the man died, they did as he had told them. Then Allah told the land to collect everything that was in it, and told the sea to collect everything that was in it, and then He said to the man, 'Why did you do this?' and he said, 'From fear of You, Lord, and You know best.' " Abu Hurayra added, "And He forgave him."

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What scholars said about it

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• Zarqānī

  رواته ثقات حفاظ

  machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt) and meticulous memorizers (ḥuffāẓ). Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 522
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  تابع يحيى على رفع هذا الحديث عن مالك بهذا الإسناد أكثر رواة الموطأ ووقفه مصعب بن عبد الله الزبيري وعبد الله بن مسلمة القعنبي فجعلاه من قول أبي هريرة ولم يرفعاه

  machine translationMost of the narrators of the Muwaṭṭaʾ followed Yaḥyā in attributing this hadith to the Prophet (raf'), from Mālik with this chain of transmission. But Muṣʿab b. ʿAbdullāh al-Zubayrī and ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah al-Qaʿnabī transmitted it as a statement of Abū Hurayrah (mawqūf) and did not attribute it to the Prophet. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 522
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  قد ذكرنا اختلاف الرواية عن مالك في رفع هذا الحديث وتوقيفه والصواب رفعه لأن مثله لا يكون رأيا

  machine translationWe have already mentioned the differing reports from Mālik regarding whether this hadith is attributed to the Prophet (marfūʿ) or stopped at the Companion (mawqūf). The correct view is that it is marfūʿ, because the like of this cannot be a personal opinion. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 522

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 2369وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسلم: " قَالَ رَجُلٌ لَمْ يَعْمَلْ خَيْرًا قَطُّ لِأَهْلِهِ وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ أَسْرَفَ رَجُلٌ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ فَلَمَّا حَضَرَهُ الْمَوْتُ أَوْصَى بَنِيهِ إِذَا مَاتَ فَحَر
• Shahih Muslim 2756aقَالَ رَجُلٌ لَمْ يَعْمَلْ حَسَنَةً قَطُّ لأَهْلِهِ إِذَا مَاتَ فَحَرِّقُوهُ ثُمَّ اذْرُوا نِصْفَهُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَنِصْفَهُ فِي الْبَحْرِ فَوَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ قَدَرَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ لَيُعَذِّبَنَّهُ عَذَابًا لاَ يُعَذِّبُهُ أَحَدًا مِنَ الْع
• Shahih al-Bukhari 7506قَالَ رَجُلٌ لَمْ يَعْمَلْ خَيْرًا قَطُّ فَإِذَا مَاتَ فَحَرِّقُوهُ وَاذْرُوا نِصْفَهُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَنِصْفَهُ فِي الْبَحْرِ فَوَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ قَدَرَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ لَيُعَذِّبَنَّهُ عَذَابًا لاَ يُعَذِّبُهُ أَحَدًا مِنَ الْعَالَمِينَ فَأ

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 15Sahih Ibn Hibban 6476Sahih Ibn Hibban 6484Sahih Ibn Hibban 651Musnad al-Bazzar 75

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Hurmuz al-Aʿraj

   trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AH
   الْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالم
   عن
3. 3
   Abū al-Zinād

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AH
   أَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيه
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   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 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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