Dalil

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1963

Offering The Funeral Prayer For The One Who Owes A debt.

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أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي يُونُسُ وَابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ

كَانَ إِذَا تُوُفِّيَ الْمُؤْمِنُ وَعَلَيْهِ دَيْنٌ سَأَلَ هَلْ تَرَكَ لِدَيْنِهِ مِنْ قَضَاءٍ فَإِنْ قَالُوا نَعَمْ صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ وَإِنْ قَالُوا لاَ قَالَ صَلُّوا عَلَى صَاحِبِكُمْ فَلَمَّا فَتَحَ اللَّهُ ﷻ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ ﷺ قَالَ أَنَا أَوْلَى بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ فَمَنْ تُوُفِّيَ وَعَلَيْهِ دَيْنٌ فَعَلَىَّ قَضَاؤُهُ وَمَنْ تَرَكَ مَالاً فَهُوَ لِوَرَثَتِهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Yūnus b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá
  2. Ibn And Hb
  3. Yūnus Wāb. Abū Dhiʾb
  4. Ibn Shihāb
  5. Abū Salamah
  6. Abū Hurayrah
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

if a believer died with debts outstanding, the Messenger of Allah would ask whether he had left behind anything to pay off his debts. If they said yes, he would pray for him, but if they said no, he would say: "Pray for your companion." Then, when Allah made His Messenger rich through conquest, he said: "I am closer to the believers than their own selves. Whoever dies and leaves behind a debt, I will pay it, and whoever leavers behind wealth, it is for his heirs."

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Narrators

  1. يونس بن عبد الأعلي الصدفي
  2. عبد الله بن وهب القرشي
  3. يونس بن يزيد الأيلي
  4. محمد بن أبي ذئب العامري
  5. محمد بن شهاب الزهري
  6. أبو سلمة بن عبد الرحمن الزهري
  7. أبو هريرة الدوسي