Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1509
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْبَخْتَرِيُّ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " صَلُّوا عَلَى أَطْفَالِكُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ مِنْ أَفْرَاطِكُمْ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Hisham ibn Ammar narrated to us; al-Bukhturi ibn Ubayd narrated to us, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Perform the funeral prayer for your children, for they are your forerunners.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source calls the children ‘your forerunners’; the parenthetical explanation in the English witness is not present in the Arabic and is not added.