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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ibnmajah:1560 – Azhar b. Marwān > ʿAbd al-Wārith b. Saʿīd > Ayyūb > Ḥumayd b. Hilāl > Abū al-Dahmāʾ > Hishām b. ʿĀmir

“Dig the grave deep, make it spacious and prepare it well.”

ابن ماجة:١٥٦٠ – حَدَّثَنَا أَزْهَرُ بْنُ مَرْوَانَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلاَلٍ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّهْمَاءِ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ احْفِرُوا وَأَوْسِعُوا وَأَحْسِنُوا

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suyuti:718a –
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السيوطي:٧١٨a –

"أحفروا، وأوسِعوا، وأعمقوا".

[د] أبو داود [ت] الترمذي [ن] النسائي [هـ] ابن ماجة عن هشام بن عامر أنه ﷺ قال ذلك يوم أُحُدٍ، قال [ت] الترمذي حسن صحيح، زاد [د] أبو داود "واجعلوا الاثنين والثلاثة في القبر الواحد، وقدَّموا أكثرهم قرآنًا"