"Abu Al-Malih led us in offering the funeral prayer and we thought that he had said the Takbir, but he turned to us and said: 'Make you rows straight and intercede properly.' Abu Al-Malih said: Abdullah - meaning Ibn Salit-narrated to me that one of the Mothers of the believes, Maimunah the wife of the Prophet, said: The Prophet told me: There is no deceased person for whom a group of people offers the funeral prayer, but their intercession for him will be accepted.' I asked Abu Al-Malih about the (number of that) group and he said: 'Forty."'  

صَلَّى بِنَا أَبُو الْمَلِيحِ عَلَى جَنَازَةٍ فَظَنَنَّا أَنَّهُ قَدْ كَبَّرَ فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا بِوَجْهِهِ فَقَالَ أَقِيمُوا صُفُوفَكُمْ وَلْتَحْسُنْ شَفَاعَتُكُمْ قَالَ أَبُو الْمَلِيحِ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَهُوَ ابْنُ سَلِيطٍ عَنْ إِحْدَى أُمَّهَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَهِيَ مَيْمُونَةُ زَوْجُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَتْ أَخْبَرَنِي النَّبِيُّ ﷺ قَالَ مَا مِنْ مَيِّتٍ يُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِلاَّ شُفِّعُوا فِيهِ فَسَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْمَلِيحِ عَنِ الأُمَّةِ فَقَالَ أَرْبَعُونَ  

[Machine] That Abu Al-Malih attended a funeral, and when he stood up, they thought he was going to lead the funeral prayer. He turned around and said, "Stand up so that your intercession may improve. If I were to choose a man, I would choose this one. For Abdullah bin Salit told me about one of the mothers of the believers, Maymuna, that the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , said, 'There is no Muslim who is prayed upon by a group of people except that they intercede for him.' I asked Abu Al-Malih about the number of people, and he said, 'Forty.'"  

أَنَّ أَبَا الْمَلِيحِ خَرَجَ عَلَى جَنَازَةٍ فَلَمَّا اسْتَوَى ظَنُّوا أَنَّهُ يُكَبِّرُ فَالْتَفَتَ فَقَالَ اسْتَوُوا لِتَحْسُنَ شَفَاعَتُكُمْ فَإِنِّي لَوْ اخْتَرْتُ رَجُلًا لَاخْتَرْتُ هَذَا أَلَا فَإِنَّهُ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلِيطٍعَنْ إِحْدَى أُمَّهَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَهِيَ مَيْمُونَةُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِلَّا شُفِّعُوا فِيهِ قَالَ فَسَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْمَلِيحِ عَنِ الْأُمَّةِ فَقَالَ أَرْبَعُونَ  

[Machine] Abu Al-Malih Al-Hudhali went out in a funeral. When the deceased was placed on the bed, he approached the people and said, "Straighten your rows and improve your intercession." Then Abu Al-Malih said, "Abdullah bin Salit informed me, and he was the brother of Maymunah, the mother of the believers, from Maymunah, from the Prophet ﷺ , who said, 'Whoever prays upon him, a nation will intercede for their brother.' And the nation is forty to one hundred, the group is ten to forty, and the individual is three to ten."  

أَنَّ أَبَا الْمَلِيحِ الْهُذَلِيَّ خَرَجَ فِي جِنَازَةٍ فَلَمَّا وُضِعَ عَلَى السَّرِيرِ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى الْقَوْمِ فَقَالَ سَوُّوا صُفُوفَكُمْ وَأَحْسِنُوا شَفَاعَتَكُمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو الْمَلِيحِ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلِيطٍ وَكَانَ أَخُو مَيْمُونَةَ أُمِّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَنْ مَيْمُونَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «مَنْ صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةٌ شُفِّعُوا فِي أَخِيهِمْ» وَالْأُمَّةُ أَرْبَعُونَ إِلَى مِائَةٍ وَالْعُصْبَةُ عَشَرَةٌ إِلَى أَرْبَعِينَ وَالنَّفَرُ ثَلَاثَةٌ إِلَى عَشَرَةٍ  

[Machine] I prayed with my father, Al-Malih, at a funeral. He said, "Arrange your rows and improve your intercession; if I were to choose a man, I would choose him." Abdullah ibn Abi Salil narrated to us from one of the wives of the Prophet, Maymuna, and her brother was a foster sibling, that the Prophet, ﷺ , said, "There is no Muslim man whom a group of people pray for except that they intercede for him." Abu Al-Malih said, "The group is from forty to one hundred."  

صَلَّيْتُ مَعَ أَبِي الْمَلِيحِ عَلَى جِنَازَةٍ فَقَالَ سَوُّوا صُفُوفَكُمْ وَلْتَحْسُنُ شَفَاعَتُكُمْ وَلَوْ خُيِّرْتُ رَجُلًا لَاخْتَرْتُهُ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَبِي السَّلِيلِ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَزْوَاجِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مَيْمُونَةَ وَكَانَ أَخُوهَا مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «مَا مِنْ رَجُلٍ مُسْلِمٍ يُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةٌ إِلَّا شُفِّعُوا فِيهِ» قَالَ أَبُو الْمَلِيحِ الْأُمَّةُ الْأَرْبَعُونَ إِلَى الْمِائَةِ