Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3097

Translation

"I heard 'Umar bin Al-Khattab saying: 'When 'Abdullah bin Ubayy died, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was called to perform the funeral prayer over him. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to him, and when he stood over him, about to perform the prayer, he turned until he was standing at his chest. I said: "O Messenger of Allah! (You pray) for Allah's enemy 'Abdullah bin Ubayy, who on this day said this and that" - mentioning different days. He said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was smiling until I had said too much to him and he said: 'Leave me O 'Umar! Indeed I have been given the choice, so I chose. I was told: Whether you ask forgiveness for them, or do not ask for forgiveness for them. Even though you ask for their forgiveness seventy times, Allah will not forgive them (9:80). If I knew that were I to ask more than seventy times that he would be forgiven, then I would do so." He said: "Then he performed the Salat for him and walked with him (his funeral procession) and he stood at his grave until it was finished. I was amazed at myself and my daring to talk like that to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, while Allah and His Messenger ﷺ know better. But by Allah! It was not long until these two Ayat were revealed: 'And never pray for any of them who dies nor stand at his grave... (9:84) until the end of the Ayah. He said: "So afterwards the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not perform the Salat for a hypocrite, nor would he stand at his grave until Allah took him."

Notes

• Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ-Gharīb.

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ غَرِيبٌ

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3393
• Mubarakpūri

  أقدم جماعة من الأكابر على الطعن في صحة هذا الحديث مع كثرة طرقه واتفاق الشيخين وسائر الذين خرجوا الصحيح على تصحيحه وذلك ينادي على منكري صحته بعدم معرفة الحديث وقلة الاطلاع على طرقه

  machine translationA group of the great scholars proceeded to impugn the authenticity of this hadith, despite the abundance of its chains of transmission and the agreement of the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim) and all the others who compiled the Ṣaḥīḥ collections on declaring it authentic. This proclaims against those who deny its authenticity that they lack knowledge of hadith and have little familiarity with its chains of transmission. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3393
• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا حديث حسن صحيح غريب

  machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), sound (ṣaḥīḥ), gharīb hadith. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3393

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 4680Musnad Ahmad 95al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6790Musnad al-Bazzar 229Musnad al-Bazzar 5554al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2039

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   سمعت
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
   عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَثقة فقيه ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
5. 5
   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
6. 6
   Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
   عن
7. 7
   Yaʿqūb

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AH
   يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقة فاضل .
   حدثنا
8. 8
   ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AH
   عَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
9. 9
   al-Tirmidhī

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

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.