Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters Regarding Funerals
كتاب الجنائز
Chapter 1
مَا جَاءَ فِي عِيَادَةِ الْمَرِيضِ
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Hannad ibn al-Sari narrated to us; Abu al-Ahwas narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from al-Harith, from Ali, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘A Muslim owes another Muslim six acts of kindness: greet him when you meet; respond when he invites you; invoke mercy for him when he sneezes; visit him when he is ill; follow his funeral when he dies; and love for him what you love for yourself.’
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The Arabic names the six courtesies but does not include the English witness’s explanatory parenthetical about the sneezer’s response; that detail is not added.
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Abu Bishr Bakr ibn Khalaf and Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us; they said: Yahya ibn Sa‘id narrated to us; Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja‘far narrated to us, from his father, from Hakim ibn Aflah, from Abu Mas‘ud, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: ‘A Muslim owes another Muslim four things: invoke mercy for him when he sneezes; respond when he invites him; attend his funeral when he dies; and visit him when he is ill.’
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The source gives four acts and differs from the preceding report’s count and wording; this translation follows this source’s own list.
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Bishr narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Amr, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Five are among a Muslim’s rights over another Muslim: returning his greeting, accepting his invitation, attending his funeral, visiting the sick, and invoking mercy for the sneezer when he praises Allah.’
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The Arabic lists five rights. It says to invoke mercy for the sneezer if he praises Allah; no specific formula is stated.
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Muhammad ibn Abd al-A‘la al-San‘ani narrated to us; Sufyan narrated to us. He said: I heard Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir say: I heard Jabir ibn Abdullah say: ‘The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to visit me on foot, and Abu Bakr was with him, while I was among Banu Salimah.’
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The Arabic says the Prophet visited Jabir walking, with Abu Bakr also mentioned; it does not explicitly state in this wording that Abu Bakr came to visit him too.
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Hisham ibn Ammar narrated to us; Maslamah ibn Ali narrated to us; Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, from Humayd al-Tawil, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: ‘The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would not visit a sick person until three days had passed.’
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The report gives the timing as ‘after three’; it does not specify a counting convention or further circumstance.
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Uqbah ibn Khalid al-Sakuni narrated to us, from Musa ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi, from his father, from Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘When you visit a sick person, give him hope for a long life. That will not avert anything, but it will bring comfort to the sick person.’
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The expression فَنَفِّسُوا لَهُ فِي الأَجَلِ means to cheer the patient by giving hope of a long life; the text says this does not avert anything.
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Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Khallal narrated to us; Safwan ibn Hubayrah narrated to us; Abu Makin narrated to us, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) visited a man and asked, ‘What do you desire?’ He replied, ‘I desire wheat bread.’ The Prophet said, ‘Whoever has wheat bread, let him send some to his brother.’ Then the Prophet said, ‘If a sick person among you desires something, let him be given it to eat.’
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The Arabic says wheat bread and describes the sick man's wish as desire/longing; no additional medical rationale is given.
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Sufyan ibn Waki narrated to us; Abu Yahya al-Himmani narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Yazid al-Raqashi, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: ‘The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) entered upon a sick person to visit him and asked, “Do you desire anything? Do you desire ka‘k?” The man said, “Yes.” So they sought some for him.’
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Ka‘k is retained as the food name; the Arabic does not identify it further.
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Ja‘far ibn Musafir narrated to us; Kathir ibn Hisham narrated to me; Ja‘far ibn Burqan narrated to us, from Maymun ibn Mihran, from Umar ibn al-Khattab, who said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: ‘When you visit a sick person, ask him to supplicate for you, for his supplication is like the supplication of the angels.’
Chapter 2
مَا جَاءَ فِي ثَوَابِ مَنْ عَادَ مَرِيضًا
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Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Abu Mu‘awiyah narrated to us; al-A‘mash narrated to us, from al-Hakam, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla, from Ali, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: ‘Whoever visits his Muslim brother walks among the fruits of Paradise until he sits down. When he sits, mercy envelops him. If he visits in the morning, seventy thousand angels invoke blessings upon him until evening; and if he visits in the evening, seventy thousand angels invoke blessings upon him until morning.’
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The Arabic uses the image of walking in the harvest or fruit-gathering of Paradise. ṣallā ʿalayhi here is rendered as the angels invoking blessings upon the visitor.
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Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us; Yusuf ibn Ya‘qub narrated to us; Abu Sinan al-Qasmalī narrated to us, from Uthman ibn Abi Sawdah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Whoever visits a sick person, a caller from heaven calls out: “You have done well, your steps have been blessed, and you have secured a dwelling in Paradise.”’
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The three clauses are blessings spoken by the caller; the wording is kept as a direct proclamation.
Chapter 3
مَا جَاءَ فِي تَلْقِينِ الْمَيِّتِ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Abu Khalid al-Ahmar narrated to us, from Yazid ibn Kaysan, from Abu Hazim, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Prompt your dying ones to say: There is no god but Allah.’
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The Arabic says to prompt or remind those nearing death to say the testimony of faith.
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Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us; Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi narrated to us, from Sulayman ibn Bilal, from Umarah ibn Ghaziyyah, from Yahya ibn Umarah, from Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Prompt your dying ones to say: There is no god but Allah.’
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This is a separate transmission of the same short wording; its full chain is preserved.
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Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us; Abu Amir narrated to us; Kathir ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Ja‘far, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Prompt your dying ones to say: There is no god but Allah, the Forbearing, the Generous; glory be to Allah, Lord of the Mighty Throne; praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.’ They said, ‘Messenger of Allah, what about the living?’ He replied, ‘Even better, even better.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The longer wording is translated in English rather than retaining only transliteration; all invocations and the repeated reply are included.
Chapter 4
مَا جَاءَ فِيمَا يُقَالُ عِنْدَ الْمَرِيضِ إِذَا حُضِرَ
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Ali ibn Muhammad narrated to us; they said: Abu Mu‘awiyah narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Shaqiq, from Umm Salamah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘When you visit a sick person or someone near death, say what is good, for the angels say “Amen” to whatever you say.’ When Abu Salamah died, I went to the Prophet and said, ‘Messenger of Allah, Abu Salamah has died.’ He said, ‘Say: “O Allah, forgive me and him, and grant me a good outcome in his place.”’ She said: ‘I did so, and Allah granted me someone better than him: Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).’
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The source gives Umm Salamah’s account and the supplication in its narrative context; the closing sentence identifies Muhammad as the one granted to her.
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Shaqiq narrated to us, from Ibn al-Mubarak, from Sulayman al-Taymi, from Abu Uthman—not al-Nahdi—from his father, from Ma‘qil ibn Yasar, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Recite it near your dying ones,’ meaning Surah Ya-Sin.
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The source explicitly distinguishes Abu Uthman from al-Nahdi; this qualification is retained.
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Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us; Yazid ibn Harun narrated to us. And Muhammad ibn Isma‘il narrated to us; al-Muharibi narrated to us. Both routes go through Muhammad ibn Ishaq, from al-Harith ibn Fudayl, from al-Zuhri, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Ka‘b ibn Malik, from his father, who said: ‘When Ka‘b was near death, Umm Bishr bint al-Bara’ ibn Ma‘rur came to him and said, “Abu Abd al-Rahman, if you meet so-and-so, convey my greetings to him.” He said, “May Allah forgive you, Umm Bishr. We have more pressing concerns than that.” She said, “Abu Abd al-Rahman, did you not hear the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say, ‘The souls of the believers are in green birds, feeding among the trees of Paradise’?” He replied, “Yes.” She said, “That is what I mean.”’
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The source preserves two routes that converge at Muhammad ibn Ishaq. The unidentified person she asks about remains ‘so-and-so,’ as in the source.
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Ahmad ibn al-Azhar narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Isa narrated to us; Yusuf ibn al-Majishun narrated to us; Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir said: ‘I went in to see Jabir ibn Abdullah while he was dying, and I said, “Convey my greetings to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).”’
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The report quotes Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir’s request to Jabir; it does not state whether Jabir responded.
Chapter 5
مَا جَاءَ فِي الْمُؤْمِنِ يُؤْجَرُ فِي النَّزْعِ
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Hisham ibn Ammar narrated to us; al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated to us; al-Awza‘i narrated to us, from Ata’, from Aishah: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to her while one of her close relatives was in the throes of death. When the Prophet saw her distress, he said to her, ‘Do not grieve over your loved one, for this is among his good deeds.’
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The Arabic says of her close loved one that death was constricting him (i.e. he was dying), and describes the event as among his good deeds.
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Bakr ibn Khalaf, Abu Bishr, narrated to us; Yahya ibn Sa‘id narrated to us, from al-Muthanna ibn Sa‘id, from Qatadah, from Ibn Buraydah, from his father, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘The believer dies with sweat on his brow.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The concise wording is preserved without adding an explanation for the sweat.