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nasai:1993Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Muḥammad b. Sawāʾ Abū al-Khaṭṭāb > Abū Bakkār al-Ḥakam b. Farrūkh > Ṣallá Binā Abū al-Malīḥ > Janāzah Faẓanannā > Qad Kabbar Faʾaqbal ʿAlaynā Biwajhih > Aqīmūā Ṣufūfakum And Ltaḥsun Shafāʿatukum > Abū al-Malīḥ > ʿAbdullāh Wahū Ibn Salīṭ

"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."'  

النسائي:١٩٩٣أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَوَاءٍ أَبُو الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكَّارٍ الْحَكَمُ بْنُ فَرُّوخٍ قَالَ

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  


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ahmad:26812Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Abū Bakkār > Ṣallayt Khalf Abū al-Malīḥ > Janāzah

[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."  

أحمد:٢٦٨١٢حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَكَّارٍ قَالَ

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  

ahmad:26838Abū ʿUbaydah ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ḥaddād > al-Ḥakam b. Farrūkh Abū Bakkār

[Machine] That Abu Al-Malih attended a funeral, and when he stood up, they thought he was going to lead the funeral prayer. He turned around and said, "Stand up so that your intercession may improve. If I were to choose a man, I would choose this one. For Abdullah bin Salit told me about one of the mothers of the believers, Maymuna, that the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , said, 'There is no Muslim who is prayed upon by a group of people except that they intercede for him.' I asked Abu Al-Malih about the number of people, and he said, 'Forty.'"  

أحمد:٢٦٨٣٨حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ الْحَدَّادُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَكَمُ بْنُ فَرُّوخٍ أَبُو بَكَّارٍ

أَنَّ أَبَا الْمَلِيحِ خَرَجَ عَلَى جَنَازَةٍ فَلَمَّا اسْتَوَى ظَنُّوا أَنَّهُ يُكَبِّرُ فَالْتَفَتَ فَقَالَ اسْتَوُوا لِتَحْسُنَ شَفَاعَتُكُمْ فَإِنِّي لَوْ اخْتَرْتُ رَجُلًا لَاخْتَرْتُ هَذَا أَلَا فَإِنَّهُ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلِيطٍعَنْ إِحْدَى أُمَّهَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَهِيَ مَيْمُونَةُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِلَّا شُفِّعُوا فِيهِ قَالَ فَسَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْمَلِيحِ عَنِ الْأُمَّةِ فَقَالَ أَرْبَعُونَ  

tabarani:20508ʿUbayd b. Ghannām > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān > Abū Bakkār al-Ḥakam b. Farrūkh > Ṣallayt Maʿ Abū al-Malīḥ > Jināzah > Sawwūā Ṣufūfakum And Ltaḥsun Shafāʿatukum Walaw Khuyyirt a man Lākhtartuh > ʿAbdullāh b. Abū al-Salīl

[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."  

الطبراني:٢٠٥٠٨حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانُ عَنْ أَبِي بَكَّارٍ الْحَكَمُ بْنُ فَرُّوخَ قَالَ

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  

nasai-kubra:2131Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Muḥammad b. Sawāʾ Abū al-Khaṭṭāb > Abū Bakkār al-Ḥakam b. Farrūkh > Ṣallá Binā Abū al-Malīḥ > Jināzah Faẓanannā > Qad Kabbar Faʾaqbal ʿAlaynā Biwajhih > Aqīmūā Ṣufūfakum And Ltaḥsun Shafāʿatukum > Abū al-Malīḥ > ʿAbdullāh b. Salīṭ

[Machine] One of the mothers of the believers, Maymuna, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ , said: The Prophet ﷺ told me that there is no deceased person whom a group of people from the nation pray for, except that they will intercede for him. So I asked Abu al-Malih about the group, and he said: forty.  

الكبرى للنسائي:٢١٣١أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَوَاءٍ أَبُو الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو بَكَّارٍ الْحَكَمُ بْنُ فَرُّوخٍ قَالَ صَلَّى بِنَا أَبُو الْمَلِيحِ عَلَى جِنَازَةٍ فَظَنَنَّا أَنَّهُ قَدْ كَبَّرَ فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا بِوَجْهِهِ فَقَالَ أَقِيمُوا صُفُوفَكُمْ وَلْتَحْسُنْ شَفَاعَتُكُمْ قَالَ أَبُو الْمَلِيحِ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلِيطٍ

عَنْ إِحْدَى أُمَّهَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَهِيَ مَيْمُونَةُ زَوْجُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَتْ أَخْبَرَنِي النَّبِيُّ ﷺ قَالَ «مَا مِنْ مَيِّتٍ يُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِلَّا شُفِّعُوا فِيهِ» فَسَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْمَلِيحِ عَنِ الْأُمَّةِ قَالَ أَرْبَعُونَ