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ibnmajah:1617 – Muḥammad b. Maʿmar > Muḥammad b. Bakr > ʿAbdullāh b. Ziyād > Abū ʿUbaydah b. ʿAbdullāh b. Zamʿah from his mother > Um Salamah

“Breaking the bones of the deceased is, in sin, like breaking his bones when he is alive.”  

ابن ماجة:١٦١٧ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَعْمَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَمْعَةَ عَنْ أُمِّهِ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ كَسْرُ عَظْمِ الْمَيِّتِ كَكَسْرِ عَظْمِ الْحَىِّ فِي الإِثْمِ  

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abudawud:3207 – al-Qaʿnabī > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad > Saʿd / Ibn Saʿīd > ʿAmrah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > ʿĀʾishah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Breaking a dead man's bone is like breaking it when he is alive.  

أبو داود:٣٢٠٧ – حَدَّثَنَا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَعْدٍ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَمْرَةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ كَسْرُ عَظْمِ الْمَيِّتِ كَكَسْرِهِ حَيًّا  

ibnmajah:1616 – Hishām b. ʿAmmār > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad al-Darāwardī > Saʿd b. Saʿīd > ʿAmrah > ʿĀʾishah

“Breaking the bones of the deceased is like breaking his bones when he is alive.”  

ابن ماجة:١٦١٦ – حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الدَّرَاوَرْدِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَسْرُ عَظْمِ الْمَيِّتِ كَكَسْرِهِ حَيًّا  

ahmad:24739 – Abū Saʿīd > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Muḥammad b.iʿabd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Rijāl from Banī al-Najjār > Abū al-Rijāl > ʿAmrah > ʿĀʾishah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Breaking a dead man's bone is like breaking it when he is alive. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 3207)  

أحمد:٢٤٧٣٩ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي الرِّجَالِ مِنْ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الرِّجَالِ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ عَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ كَسْرُ عَظْمِ الْمَيِّتِ كَكَسْرِهِ حَيًّا  

ذِكْرُ الْإِخْبَارِ عَمَّا يُسْتَحَبُّ لِلْمَرْءِ مِنْ تَحَفُّظِ أَذَى الْمَوْتَى وَلَا سِيَّمَا فِي أَجْسَادِهِمْ

ibnhibban:3167 – al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān > Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī > Sufyān > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > ʿAmrah > ʿĀʾishah

“Breaking the bones of the deceased is, in sin, like breaking his bones when he is alive.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1617)   

ابن حبّان:٣١٦٧ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «كَسْرُ عَظْمِ الْمَيِّتِ كَكَسْرِهِ حَيًّا»  

bayhaqi:7081 – Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī > Abū Ḥāmid b. al-Sharqī > Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá Ghayr Marrah > Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī > Sufyān > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > ʿAmrah > ʿĀʾishah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Breaking a dead man's bone is like breaking it when he is alive. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 3207)   

البيهقي:٧٠٨١ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ الْعَلَوِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو حَامِدِ بْنُ الشَّرْقِيِّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى غَيْرَ مَرَّةٍ ثنا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ كَسْرُ عَظْمِ الْمَيِّتِ كَكَسْرِهِ حَيًّا