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ذِكْرُ الزَّجْرِ عَنْ تَجْصِيصِ الْقُبُورِ

ibnhibban:3162al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdullāh al-Qaṭṭān > ʿUmar b. Yazīd al-Sayyārī > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Ayyūb > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

[Machine] "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited recounting stories of the graves." He said, "They used to call it the narration of the deceased."  

ابن حبّان:٣١٦٢أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْقَطَّانُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ السَّيَّارِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

«نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ تُقَصَّصَ الْقُبُورُ» قَالَ «وَكَانُوا يُسَمَّوْنَ الْجِصَّ الْقَصَّةَ»  


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ahmad:15286ʿAffān > al-Mubārak > Naṣr b. Rāshid Sanah Miāʾah ʿAmman > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī

"The Messenger of Allah forbade plastering over graves." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2029)   

أحمد:١٥٢٨٦حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ حَدَّثَنِي نَصْرُ بْنُ رَاشِدٍ سَنَةَ مِائَةٍ عَمَّنْ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ

نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ تُجَصَّصَ الْقُبُورُ أَوْ يُبْنَى عَلَيْهَا  

ahmad:14565ʿAbd al-Ṣamad from my father > Ayyūb > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade plastering over graves.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1562)  

أحمد:١٤٥٦٥حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ تَقْصِيصِ الْقُبُورِ