al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18445
✧ The one whose name is Wathila Wathila bin al-Asqai al-Laythi is known as Abu al-Asqai and also known as Abu Qirsafa and also known as Abu Shaddad used to reside in Damascus, in the Sham region. He is Wathila bin al-Asqai bin Abdul-Aziz bin Abdul-Yaalil bin Nashib bin Ghayra bin Saad bin Layth bin Bakr bin Abda Manat bin Kinana.
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حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ شَبَابَةَ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ ثنا بِسْطَامُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ الْأُرُزِّيِّ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ قَالَ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا وُضِعَ الْمَيِّتُ فِي قَبْرِهِ قَالَ «بِسْمِ اللهِ وَعَلَى سُنَّةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَوَضَعَ خَلْفَ قَفَاهُ مَدَرَةً وَبَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ مَدَرَةً وَبَيْنَ رُكْبَتَيْهِ وَمِنْ وَرَائِهِ أُخْرَى»
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Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq
- ʿAlī b. Shabābah
- Ibrāhīm b. Bakr al-Shaybānī
- Bisṭām b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Uruzzī
- Makḥūl
- Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ
✧ When the deceased was placed in his grave, the Messenger of God ﷺ used to say: “In the name of God, and upon the Sunnah of the Messenger of God ﷺ.” And he placed a clod behind his neck, a clod between his shoulders, one between his knees, and another behind him.
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