al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1088
✧ The Prohibition of Reviling the Dead and the Encouragement to Speak Well of Them
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْوَكِيعِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُؤَمَّلٌ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ -:
مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَمُوتُ فَيَشْهَدُ لَهُ أَرْبَعَةُ أَهْلِ أَبْيَاتٍ مِنْ جِيرَانِهِ الْأَدْنَيْنِ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ مِنْهُ إِلَّا خَيْرًا، إِلَّا قَالَ اللهُ تَعَالَى: قَدْ قَبِلْتُ عِلْمَكُمْ، وَغَفَرْتُ لَهُ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Aḥmad b. ʿUmar al-Wakīʿī
- Muʾammal
- Ḥammād b. Salamah
- Thābit
- Anas b. Mālik
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ There is no Muslim who dies and four people from the households of his closest neighbors testify that they know nothing but good from him, except that Allah, Exalted be He, says: “I have accepted your knowledge, and I have forgiven him for what you do not know.”
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 13541Musnad Ahmad 8989Musnad Ahmad 9295Sahih Ibn Hibban 3026Musnad Abi Ya'la 3482al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1398
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ)d. 205 AH, or 206 AHمُؤَمَّلٌصدوق ، سيئ الحفظحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 235 AH, or 236 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْوَكِيعِيُّثقةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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