Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1637
حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ سَوَّادٍ الْمِصْرِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِلاَلٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَيْمَنَ، عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ نُسَىٍّ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " أَكْثِرُوا الصَّلاَةَ عَلَىَّ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ فَإِنَّهُ مَشْهُودٌ تَشْهَدُهُ الْمَلاَئِكَةُ وَإِنَّ أَحَدًا لَنْ يُصَلِّيَ عَلَىَّ إِلاَّ عُرِضَتْ عَلَىَّ صَلاَتُهُ حَتَّى يَفْرُغَ مِنْهَا " . قَالَ قُلْتُ وَبَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ قَالَ " وَبَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ حَرَّمَ عَلَى الأَرْضِ أَنْ تَأْكُلَ أَجْسَادَ الأَنْبِيَاءِ " . فَنَبِيُّ اللَّهِ حَىٌّ يُرْزَقُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Amr ibn Sawwad al-Misri narrated to us; Abdullah ibn Wahb narrated to us, from Amr ibn al-Harith, from Sa‘id ibn Abi Hilal, from Zayd ibn Ayman, from Ubadah ibn Nusayy, from Abu al-Darda, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Send abundant blessings upon me on Friday, for it is a day witnessed, attended by the angels. Whoever sends blessings upon me, his blessings are presented to me until he finishes them.’ I said, ‘Even after death?’ He said, ‘Even after death. Allah has forbidden the earth to consume the bodies of the Prophets.’ The Prophet of Allah is alive and is provided for.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The final statement stands outside the preceding quoted speech in the source and is left unquoted; its speaker is not explicitly identified there.
The source uses salat for the invocations sent upon the Prophet; ‘blessings’ conveys that sense in this context.
فَنَبِيُّ اللَّهِ حَىٌّ يُرْزَقُ .
The final statement that the Prophet of Allah is alive and provided for follows the quoted exchange but has no explicit speaker attribution in the source text.
Should this closing sentence be treated as narrator commentary or as part of the preceding prophetic statement?