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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
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السيوطي:٢٥٠٨٤a –

"لا تُغَالُوا فِي الكَفنِ؛ فَإِنَّهُ يُسْلَبُهُ سَلْبًا سَرِيعًا".  

[د] أبو داود [ق] البيهقى في السنن عن علي

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bayhaqi:6695 – Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī > Muḥammad b. Bakr > Abū Dāwud > Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd al-Muḥāribī > ʿAmr Abū Mālik al-Janbī > Ismāʿīl b. Abū Khālid > ʿĀmir > ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "Do not go to extremes in making the shroud expensive, for it will be quickly snatched away (by others)."  

البيهقي:٦٦٩٥ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّ أنبأ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ ثنا أَبُو دَاوُدَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْمُحَارِبِيُّ ثنا عَمْرٌو أَبُو مَالِكٍ الْجَنْبِيُّ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ عَنْ عَامِرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ؓ قَالَ لَا يُغَالَى فِي كَفَنٍ؛ فَإِنِّي

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ لَا تُغَالُوا فِي الْكَفَنِ؛ فَإِنَّهُ يُسْلَبُ سَلْبًا سَرِيعًا