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nasai:1988Muḥammad b. Bashhār > Muḥammad > Shuʿbah > Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm > Ṭalḥah b. ʿAbdullāh > Ṣallayt Khalf Ibn ʿAbbās > Janāzah Fasamiʿtuh Yaqraʾ Bifātiḥah al-Kitāb Falammā Ānṣaraf Akhadht Biyadih Fasaʾaltuh > Taqraʾ

"I offered the funeral prayer behind Ibn 'Abbas and I heard him reciting Fatihat Al-Kitab. When he finished I took him by the hand and asked him. 'Did you recite?' He said: 'Yes, it is the truth and the Sunnah."'  

النسائي:١٩٨٨أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ صَلَّيْتُ خَلْفَ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَلَى جَنَازَةٍ فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقْرَأُ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ أَخَذْتُ بِيَدِهِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَقُلْتُ تَقْرَأُ قَالَ

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Collected by Qurʾān, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
nasai-kubra:2126Muḥammad b. Bashhār > Muḥammad > Shuʿbah > Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm > Ṭalḥah b. ʿAbdullāh > Ṣallayt Maʿ Ibn ʿAbbās > Jināzah Fasamiʿtuh Yaqraʾ Bifātiḥah al-Kitāb Falammā Ānṣaraf Akhadht Biyadih Fasaʾaltuh > Taqraʾ

"I offered the funeral prayer behind Ibn 'Abbas and I heard him reciting Fatihat Al-Kitab. When he finished I took him by the hand and asked him. 'Did you recite?' He said: 'Yes, it is the truth and the Sunnah."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1988)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٢١٢٦أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ §صَلَّيْتُ مَعَ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَلَى جِنَازَةٍ فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقْرَأُ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ أَخَذْتُ بِيَدِهِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَقُلْتُ تَقْرَأُ فَقَالَ

«نَعَمْ إِنَّهُ حَقٌّ وَسُنَّةٌ»