al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3102
✧ Sneezing and Its Etiquette
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي مَعْشَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عَمْرَةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، ؓ قَالَتْ:
عَطَسَ رَجُلٌ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: مَا أَقُولُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، قَالَ ﷺ: « قُلِ: الْحَمْدُ لِلهِ »، فَقَالَ الْقَوْمُ: مَا نَقُولُ لَهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: « قُولُوا: يَرْحَمُكَ اللهُ »، قَالَ الرَّجُلُ: مَا أَرُدُّ عَلَيْهِمْ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: « يَهْدِيكُمُ اللهُ وَيُصْلِحُ بَالَكُمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Abū Maʿshar
- my father
- ʿAbdullāh b. Yaḥyá b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- ʿAmrah Bint ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- ʿĀʾishah
✧ A man sneezed in the presence of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: “What should I say, O Messenger of Allah?” He ﷺ said: “Say: ‘Praise be to Allah.’” The people asked: “What should we say to him, O Messenger of Allah?” He ﷺ said: “Say: ‘May Allah have mercy on you.’” The man asked: “What should I reply to them?” He ﷺ said: “May Allah guide you and set your affairs right.”
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 23557al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10355al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5691al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7687
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- 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.عَمْرَةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقةعن
- عبد الله بن يحيى بن عبد الرحمنعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf), he grew old and his memory became confused (ikhtilāṭ)d. 170 AHأَبِيضعيف ، أسن واختلطحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 244 AH, or 247 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي مَعْشَرٍصدوقحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأبو يعلى الموصلي
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