Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters Regarding Funerals
كتاب الجنائز
Chapter 65
ذِكْرِ وَفَاتِهِ وَدَفْنِهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ishaq ibn Mansur informed us; Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ata al-Ijli informed us, from Ibn Awn, from al-Hasan, from Ubayy ibn Ka‘b, who said: We were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and our direction was one. When he passed away, we looked this way and that.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
‘Our direction was one’ follows the Arabic closely; the source does not spell out the sense of this image.
قَالَ كُنَّا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ وَإِنَّمَا وَجْهُنَا وَاحِدٌ فَلَمَّا قُبِضَ نَظَرْنَا هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا .
The phrase وَإِنَّمَا وَجْهُنَا وَاحِدٌ literally says that their wajh (face or direction) was one; its intended figurative sense is not explicit in the source wording.
Does ‘our direction was one’ retain the intended meaning without supplying an interpretation?
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir al-Hizami narrated to us; my maternal uncle, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Muttalib ibn al-Saib ibn Abi Wada‘ah al-Sahmi, narrated to us; Musa ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah al-Makhzumi narrated to me; Mus‘ab ibn Abdullah narrated to me, from Umm Salamah bint Abi Umayyah, the wife of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: During the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), when someone stood to pray, no one’s gaze went beyond the place of their feet. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, and when someone stood to pray, no one’s gaze went beyond the place where they would put their forehead. Then Abu Bakr died, and during Umar’s time, when someone stood to pray, no one’s gaze went beyond the direction of the qiblah. Then came Uthman ibn Affan, and the turmoil occurred, so people began looking to the right and the left.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report’s progression in where people looked while praying is retained in its stated sequence.
The time references under Umar and Uthman are rendered to express the narrative sequence in English.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Khallal narrated to us; Amr ibn Asim narrated to us; Sulayman ibn al-Mughirah narrated to us, from Thabit, from Anas, who said: After the death of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), Abu Bakr said to Umar, ‘Let us go and visit Umm Ayman, as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to visit her.’ When they arrived, she wept. They both said to her, ‘What makes you weep? What is with Allah is better for His Messenger.’ She said, ‘I know that what is with Allah is better for His Messenger, but I weep because revelation from heaven has ceased.’ She stirred them both to weeping, and they began to weep with her.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; al-Husayn ibn Ali narrated to us, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Yazid ibn Jabir, from Abu al-Ash‘ath al-San‘ani, from Aws ibn Aws, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Among your best days is Friday. On it Adam was created, and on it are the blowing and the blast. So send abundant blessings upon me on that day, for your blessings are presented to me.’ A man said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, how will our blessings be presented to you when you have decayed?’—meaning, ‘when you have become dust.’ He said: ‘Allah has forbidden the earth to consume the bodies of the Prophets.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source itself glosses أَرَمْتَ as بَلِيتَ; ‘decayed’ and ‘become dust’ preserve that gloss.
‘Blowing’ and ‘blast’ retain the source’s two event nouns without adding an instrument or further specification.
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?