Sunan Abi Dawud 3199
The Supplication For The Deceased
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْحَرَّانِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
إِذَا صَلَّيْتُمْ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ فَأَخْلِصُوا لَهُ الدُّعَاءَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Yaḥyá al-Ḥarrānī
- Muḥammad / Ibn Salamah
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
- Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm
- Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: When you pray over the dead, make a sincere supplication for him.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
في إسناده محمد بن إسحاق
machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Muḥammad b. Isḥāq.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3198 - M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3198
Same hadith, other wordings
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 1497إِذَا صَلَّيْتُمْ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ فَأَخْلِصُوا لَهُ الدُّعَاءَ
- Misykatul Mashabih 1674وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِذَا صَلَّيْتُمْ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ فَأَخْلِصُوا لَهُ الدُّعَاءَ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد وَابْن مَاجَه
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 3076Sahih Ibn Hibban 3077al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7064Musnad al-Bazzar 7834Musnad al-Bazzar 8565
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 (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، مكثرعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), with some unique narrations (afrād)d. 119 AH, or 120 AH, or 121 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة له أفرادعن
- 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 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 191 AH or 192 AH or 193 AHمُحَمَّدٌ - يَعْنِي : ابْنَ سَلَمَةَثقةحدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made errors (wahm)d. 235 AH, Ibn ʿAsākir said: 236 AHعَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْحَرَّانِيُّصدوق ، ربما وهمحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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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)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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