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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
suyuti:4-2546b – Mālik > Balaghah
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السيوطي:٤-٢٥٤٦b –

"عَنْ مَالِكٍ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ عَلِىَّ بْنَ أَبِى طَالِبٍ كَانَ يَتَوَسَّدُ القُبُورَ وَيضْطَجِعُ عَليْهَا".  

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Collected by Mālik, Suyūṭī
malik:16-35 – Mālik > Balaghah

ahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that AIi ibn Abi Talib used to rest his head on graves and lie on them. Malik said, "As far as we can see ,it is only forbidden to sit on graves to relieve oneself."  

مالك:١٦-٣٥ – وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ

أَنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ كَانَ يَتَوَسَّدُ الْقُبُورَ وَيَضْطَجِعُ عَلَيْهَا قَالَ مَالِكٌ وَإِنَّمَا نُهِيَ عَنِ الْقُعُودِ عَلَى الْقُبُورِ فِيمَا نُرَى لِلْمَذَاهِبِ  

suyuti:4-2869b – Mālik > Balaghah
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السيوطي:٤-٢٨٦٩b –

"عن مَالِكٍ: أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ عَلِىَّ بْنَ أَبِى طَالِبٍ كَانَ يَقُولُ: الأَضْحَى يَوْمَانِ بَعْدَ يَوْمِ الأَضْحَى".  

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