al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 990
✧ Washing the Deceased
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وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ رَاهَوَيْهِ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، ثَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنْ فَاطِمَةَ، عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ:
إِذَا مُتُّ فَاغْسِلُونِي، وَكَفِّنُونِي، وَحَنِّطُونِي، وَأَجْمِرُونِي، وَلَا تَذُرُّوا عَلَى كَفَنِي حَنُوطًا، وَلَا تَتْبَعُونِي بِمِجْمَرٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- Hishām
- Fāṭimah
- Asmāʾ Bint Abū Bakr
✧ "When I die, wash me, shroud me, embalm me, perfume me with incense, and do not scatter embalming spices on my shroud, and do not follow me with a censer."
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Other narrations of this report
Muwatta' Malik 16-13Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11225Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11229Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 6525al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6805Musnad Abi Ya'la 2303
Narrators
- One of the senior Companionsd. 73 AH, or 74 AHأَسْمَاءُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍمن كبار الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AHفَاطِمَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AHهِشَامٌثقة فقيه ربما دلسحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ رَاهَوَيْهِثقة حافظ مجتهد
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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.