Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1501
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ، عَنْ حَجَّاجٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ مَا أَبَاحَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ وَلاَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَلاَ عُمَرُ فِي شَىْءٍ مَا أَبَاحُوا فِي الصَّلاَةِ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ . يَعْنِي لَمْ يُوَقِّتْ .
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Abdullah ibn Sa‘id narrated to us; Hafs ibn Ghiyath narrated to us, from Hajjaj, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir, who said: ‘The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), Abu Bakr, and Umar gave us leeway in nothing as they did concerning the funeral prayer.’ That is, they did not set a fixed limit.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source’s concluding gloss is ‘they did not specify a fixed limit’; the wording does not state here whether this concerns a fixed number or another limit.