al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3256
✧ Prohibition of reviling the dead when it harms the living
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وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ، قَالَ:
بَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَسِيرُ إِذْ أَشْرَفَ عَلَى قَبْرِ رَجُلٍ قَدْ سَمَّاهُ، فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ؓ: لَعَنَ اللهُ صَاحِبَ هَذَا الْقَبْرِ، فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ عَدُوَّ اللهِ، قَالَ: وَابْنُهُ يَسِيرُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: بَلْ لَعَنَ اللهُ أَبَا قُحَافَةَ، فَوَاللهِ، مَا كَانَ يَقْرِي الضَّيْفَ، وَلَا يُقَاتِلُ الْعَدُوَّ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: « لَا تَسُبُّوا الْأَمْوَاتَ، فَتُؤْذُوا الْأَحْيَاءَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
- Isrāʾīl
- Abū Isḥāq
- some companions
✧ While the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was traveling, he came upon the grave of a man whom he named. Abu Bakr ؓ said: "May Allah curse the occupant of this grave, for he was an enemy of Allah." He (the narrator) said: His son was traveling with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he said: "Rather, may Allah curse Abu Quhafah, for by Allah, he did not entertain guests nor fight the enemy." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Do not revile the dead, lest you harm the living."
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Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1982Musnad Ahmad 18431Musnad Ahmad 19557al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 4980Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 12109
Narrators
- بعض أصحاب أبو إسحاق السبيعيعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AHإِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجةحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he sometimes made mistakesd. 204 AH, also said: 206 AHعَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِصدوق ، ربما أخطأحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.