Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1617
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَعْمَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَمْعَةَ، عَنْ أُمِّهِ، عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ " كَسْرُ عَظْمِ الْمَيِّتِ كَكَسْرِ عَظْمِ الْحَىِّ فِي الإِثْمِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Mammar narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Bakr narrated to us: Abdullah ibn Ziyad narrated to us: Abu Ubaydah ibn Abdullah ibn Zamah informed me, from his mother, from Umm Salamah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: ‘Breaking the bone of a deceased person is like breaking the bone of a living person in sin.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
‘فِي الإِثْمِ’ explicitly limits the comparison to sin; it is retained at the end of the sentence. The chain passes from Abu Ubaydah through his mother to Umm Salamah.