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"تَبكينَ أوْ لا تَبكِينَ، مَا زَالتِ المَلائِكَةُ تُظِلُّهُ بأجنِحَتِهَا حَتَّى رَفَعتُمُوه".  

[حم] أحمد [خ] البخاري [م] مسلم [ن] النسائي عن جابر، قال: لما قتل أَبى جعلت عمتى تبكى، فقال رسول الله ﷺ فذكره

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Collected by Nasāʾī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
nasai:1845 – ʿAmr b. Yazīd > Bahz b. Asad > Shuʿbah > Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir > Jābir > Abāh Qutil Yawm Uḥud > Fajaʿalt Akshif

"I started to uncover his face, weeping. The people told me not to do that but the Messenger of Allah did not forbid me. My paternal aunt started to weep, and the Messenger of Allah said: 'Do not weep, for angels kept on shading him with their wings until you lifted him up."'  

النسائي:١٨٤٥ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ يَزِيدَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزُ بْنُ أَسَدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ أَنَّ أَبَاهُ قُتِلَ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ قَالَ فَجَعَلْتُ أَكْشِفُ

عَنْ وَجْهِهِ وَأَبْكِي وَالنَّاسُ يَنْهَوْنِي وَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لاَ يَنْهَانِي وَجَعَلَتْ عَمَّتِي تَبْكِيهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لاَ تَبْكِيهِ مَا زَالَتِ الْمَلاَئِكَةُ تُظِلُّهُ بِأَجْنِحَتِهَا حَتَّى رَفَعْتُمُوهُ  

nasai-kubra:1984 – ʿAmr b. Yazīd > Bahz b. Asad > Shuʿbah > Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir > Jābir > Abāh Qutil Yawm Uḥud Fajaʿalt Akshif

"I started to uncover his face, weeping. The people told me not to do that but the Messenger of Allah did not forbid me. My paternal aunt started to weep, and the Messenger of Allah said: 'Do not weep, for angels kept on shading him with their wings until you lifted him up."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1845)  

الكبرى للنسائي:١٩٨٤ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ يَزِيدَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزُ بْنُ أَسَدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ أَنَّ أَبَاهُ قُتِلَ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ فَجَعَلْتُ أَكْشِفُ

عَنْ وَجْهِهِ وَأَبْكِي وَالنَّاسُ يَنْهَوْنِي وَرَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا يَنْهَانِي وَجَعَلَتٍ عَمَّتِي تَبْكِيهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَا تَبْكِيهِ مَا زَالَتِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ تُظِلُّهُ بِأَجْنِحَتِهَا حَتَّى رَفَعْتُمُوهُ»