"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] I prayed behind Abu Al-Malih for a funeral prayer, and he said, "Arrange your rows and improve your intercession. Even if I were to choose someone, I would choose him." Then he said, "Abdullah bin Salil narrated to me" [Abdullah said], "My father narrated to us, and Abu Ubaydah Al-Haddad said, "Abdullah bin Salit narrated to me from some of the wives of the Prophet ﷺ , Maymuna, and her brother was from breastfeeding. They said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'No Muslim prays upon him except that they will intercede for him.'" Abu Al-Malih said, "The intercession is from forty to one hundred and beyond."  

صَلَّيْتُ خَلْفَ أَبِي الْمَلِيحِ عَلَى جَنَازَةٍ فَقَالَ أَقِيمُوا صُفُوفَكُمْ وَلْتَحْسُنْ شَفَاعَتُكُمْ وَلَوْ اخْتَرْتُ رَجُلًا اخْتَرْتُهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلِيلٍ [قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ] قَالَ أَبِي وحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ الْحَدَّادُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلِيطٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَزْوَاجِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مَيْمُونَةَ وَكَانَ أَخَاهَا مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةٌ إِلَّا شُفِّعُوا فِيهِ وقَالَ أَبُو الْمَلِيحِ الْأُمَّةُ أَرْبَعُونَ إِلَى مِائَةٍ فَصَاعِدًا  

[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