al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 986
✧ Washing the Deceased
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وَقَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، قَالَ:
سَأَلْتُ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ عَنِ الْغُسْلِ مِنْ غُسْلِ الْمَيِّتِ ؟ فَقَالَ: لَقَدْ نَجَّسْتُمْ صَاحِبَكُمْ إِذًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Yaḥyá
- ʿAbd al-Malik
- ʿAṭāʾ
✧ I asked Ibn Abbas ؓ about performing ghusl after washing a dead body? He said: You have then made your companion impure.
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- Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī
صحح وقفه وقال لا يصح رفعه
machine translationHe deemed its halting at the Companion (mawqūf) sound (ṣaḥīḥ), and said that its being traced back to the Prophet (marfūʿ) is not sound.
in المطالب العالية, p. 986
Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11247Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11248Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11256Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 6150Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 6153al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1426
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةسألت
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous, but he often narrated with omission of the Companion (irsāl); it is said that he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life, though this was not frequent in himd. 112 AH, or 114 AH, or 115 AH, or 116 AH, or 117 AHعَطَاءٍثقة فقيه ، فاضل لكنه كثير الإرسال ، وقيل : إنه تغير بآخره ، ولم يكثر ذلك منهعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 145 AH or 147 AHعَبْدِ الْمَلِكِصدوق له أوهامعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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