al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1013
✧ The Imam Leading the Funeral Prayer
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قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرٌ حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ -:
لَا يُصَلِّي عَلَى جَنَائِزِكُمْ أَحَدٌ غَيْرِي مَا دُمْتُ فِيكُمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- Bakr
- ʿĪsá
- Ibn Abū Laylá
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ None of you should pray over your funerals except me, as long as I am among you.
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), of very poor memoryd. 148 AHابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىصدوق ، سيئ الحفظ جداعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)عِيسَىثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 211 AH, or: 212 AH, also said: 219 AHبَكْرٌثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.