Sahih Muslim 956
Praying over the grave
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وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ الزَّهْرَانِيُّ وَأَبُو كَامِلٍ فُضَيْلُ بْنُ حُسَيْنٍ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ وَاللَّفْظُ لأَبِي كَامِلٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ وَهُوَ ابْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ
أَنَّ امْرَأَةً سَوْدَاءَ كَانَتْ تَقُمُّ الْمَسْجِدَ أَوْ شَابًّا، فَفَقَدَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَسَأَلَ عَنْهَا أَوْ عَنْهُ، فَقَالُوا: مَاتَ، قَالَ: «أَفَلاَ كُنْتُمْ آذَنْتُمُونِي؟»، قَالَ: فَكَأَنَّهُمْ صَغَّرُوا أَمْرَهَا أَوْ أَمْرَهُ، فَقَالَ: «دُلُّونِي عَلَى قَبْرِهِ»، فَدَلُّوهُ، فَصَلَّى عَلَيْهَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: «إِنَّ هَذِهِ الْقُبُورَ مَمْلُوءَةٌ ظُلْمَةً عَلَى أَهْلِهَا، وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ ﷻ يُنَوِّرُهَا لَهُمْ بِصَلاَتِي عَلَيْهِمْ».
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Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Rabīʿ al-Zahrānī and ʾAbū Kāmil Fuḍayl b. Ḥusayn al-Jaḥdarī Wa-al-Lafẓ Lʾabī Kāmil
- Ḥammād Wahū Ibn Zayd
- Thābit al-Bunānī
- Abū Rāfiʿ
- Abū Hurayrah
A black woman used to sweep the masjid, or a young man, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ noticed her missing, so he asked about her, or about him. They said, “She died.” He said: "Why did you not inform me?" He said: It was as though they had regarded her matter, or his matter, as insignificant. So he said: "Show me her or his grave." They showed it to him, and he prayed over it. Then he said: "These graves are filled with darkness for their occupants, and Allah ﷻ illuminates them for them through my prayer over them."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1659وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ امْرَأَةً سَوْدَاءَ كَانَتْ تَقُمُّ الْمَسْجِدَ أَوْ شَابٌّ فَفَقَدَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَسَأَلَ عَنْهَا أَوْ عَنْهُ فَقَالُوا: مَاتَ. قَالَ: «أَفَلَا كُنْتُمْ آذَنْتُمُونِي؟»
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 1527Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 12067al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7114al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7118
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 91 and 100 AHأَبِي رَافِعٍثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّثقة عابدعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AHحَمَّادٌ وَهُوَ ابْنُ زَيْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه.حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 237 AHوَأَبُو كَامِلٍ فُضَيْلُ بْنُ حُسَيْنٍ الْجَحْدَرِيُّثقة حافظحدثني
- 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 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة 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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