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Sahih Muslim 969a

The command to level the grave

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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ قَالَ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا وَقَالَ الآخَرَانِ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيَّاجِ الأَسَدِيِّ قَالَ

قَالَ لِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ أَلاَّ أَبْعَثُكَ عَلَى مَا بَعَثَنِي عَلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ لاَ تَدَعَ تِمْثَالاً إِلاَّ طَمَسْتَهُ وَلاَ قَبْرًا مُشْرِفًا إِلاَّ سَوَّيْتَهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá and ʾAbū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah Wazuhayr b. Ḥarb
  2. Yaḥyá
  3. al-Ākharān
  4. Wakīʿ
  5. Sufyān
  6. Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit
  7. Abū Wāʾil
  8. Abū al-Hayyāj al-Asadī

Should I not send you on the same mission as Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me? Do not leave an image without obliterating it, or a high grave without levelling It. This hadith has been reported by Habib with the same chain of transmitters and he said: (Do not leave) a picture without obliterating it.

Notes

  • وَحَدَّثَنِيهِ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ خَلاَّدٍ الْبَاهِلِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى وَهُوَ الْقَطَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ حَدَّثَنِي حَبِيبٌ بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ وَقَالَ وَلاَ صُورَةً إِلاَّ طَمَسْتَهَا

    machine translationAbū Bakr b. Khallād al-Bāhilī narrated it to me: Yaḥyā, who is al-Qaṭṭān, narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us: Ḥabīb narrated to me with this chain of transmission, and he said: "and no image except that you erase it."

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 1696وَعَنْ أَبِي الْهَيَّاجِ الْأَسَدِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي عَلِيٌّ: أَلَا أَبْعَثُكَ عَلَى مَا بَعَثَنِي عَلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: إِن لَا تَدَعَ تِمْثَالًا إِلَّا طَمَسْتَهُ وَلَا قَبْرًا مشرفا إِلَّا سويته. ر

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 968Sunan an-Nasa'i 2031Musnad Ahmad 741al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16930Musnad al-Bazzar 930Musnad Abi Ya'la 349

Narrators

  1. ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
    One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
    قال لي
  2. Abū al-Hayyāj al-Asadī
    Trustworthy (thiqah).d. between 71 and 80 AH
    أَبِي الْهَيَّاجِ الْأَسَدِيِّثقة.
    عن
  3. Shaqīq b. Salamah
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AH
    أَبِي وَائِلٍثقة
    عن
  4. Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit al-Kāhilī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), an eminent jurist; he often narrated mursal reports (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs).d. 119 AH, or 122 AH
    حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليس
    عن
  5. Sufyān al-Thawrī
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
    سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
    عن
  6. Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ
    Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
    وَكِيعٌ -ثقة حافظ عابد
    أخبرنا
  7. Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā
    trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imam (imām).d. 226 AH, or 224 AH, or 225 AH; both of the latter two are mistaken.
    يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة ثبت إمام .
    حدثنا
  8. Muslim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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