Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1028

Translation

"When Malik bin Hubairah performed Salat for a funeral and the people were few he would divide them into three groups (rows) then say: 'The Messenger of Allah said: "For whomever three rows perform Salat, then it is granted."

Notes

• قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ وَأُمِّ حَبِيبَةَ وَأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَمَيْمُونَةَ زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ مَالِكِ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ هَكَذَا رَوَاهُ غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ وَرَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ وَأَدْخَلَ بَيْنَ مَرْثَدٍ وَمَالِكِ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ رَجُلاً وَرِوَايَةُ هَؤُلاَءِ أَصَحُّ عِنْدَنَا

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• al-Tirmidhi

  حديث حسن

  machine translationA good (ḥasan) hadith. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1061
• al-Tirmidhi

  حسنه

  machine translationHe graded it good (ḥasan). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1061

Same hadith, other wordings

• Riyadhus Shalihin 934إذا صلى علي الجنازة، فتقال الناس عليها، جزأهم عليها ثلاثة أجزاء، ثم قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: “من صلى عليه ثلاثة صفوف، فقد أوجب “
• Misykatul Mashabih 1687وَعَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَمُوتُ فَيُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ ثَلَاثَةُ صُفُوفٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلَّا أَوْجَبَ». فَكَانَ مَالِكٌ إِذَا اسْتَقَلَ
• Sunan Abu Dawud 3166مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَمُوتُ فَيُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ ثَلاَثَةُ صُفُوفٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلاَّ أَوْجَبَ قَالَ فَكَانَ مَالِكٌ إِذَا اسْتَقَلَّ أَهْلَ الْجَنَازَةِ جَزَّأَهُمْ ثَلاَثَةَ صُفُوفٍ لِلْحَدِيثِ

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 1490Musnad Ahmad 16724al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17745Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11743al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7006al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1341

Narrators

1. 1
   Mālik b. Hubayrah al-Sakūnī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. in the days of Marwān b. al-Ḥakam
   مَالِك بْن هُبَيْرَة السَّكُونِيّصحابي
   قال
2. 2
   Abū al-Khayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 90 AH
   مَرْثَدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْيَزَنِيِّثقة فقيه
   عن
3. 3
   Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb al-Azdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AH
   يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسل
   عن
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Isḥāq

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدر
   عن
5. 5
   Yūnus b. Bukayr

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 199 AH
   وَيُونُسُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍصدوق يخطئ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Kurayb

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
   أَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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