Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-1158b
"عَنْ أبِى سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِىَ قَالَ: قُلتُ لِعَلِىٍّ بنِ أَبِى طَالبٍ: الْمَشىُ أَمَامَ الْجِنَازَة أَفْضَلُ؟ فَقَالَ: إِنَّ فَضْلَ الْمَشْي خَلْفَهَا عَلَى الْمَاشِى أَمَامَها كَفَضْلِ صَلاَةِ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ عَلَى التَّطَوُع، قُلتُ: بِرَأيِكَ تَقُولُ؟ قَالَ: بَلْ سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ الله ﷺ غَيْرَ مَرَّةٍ وَلاَ مَرَّتيْنِ حَتَّى بَلَغَ سَبْعَ مِرَارٍ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Biá Saʿīd al-Khudri
- ʿali b. Abiá Ṭālb al-Mash Amām al-Jināzah Afḍal
- In Faḍl
Machine translation, not reviewed
"Narrated from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: I said to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib: 'Is walking in front of the funeral better?' He said: 'The merit of walking behind it over walking in front of it is like the merit of the obligatory prayer over the voluntary.' I said: 'Do you say this by your own opinion?' He said: 'Rather, I heard it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ more than once or twice, until he had said it seven times.'"
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Notes
ابن الجوزى في الواهيات
machine translationIbn al-Jawzī, in al-Wāhiyāt.
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