Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 1679
وَعَنْ نَافِعٍ أَبِي غَالِبٍ قَالَ: صَلَّيْتُ مَعَ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَلَى جَنَازَةِ رَجُلٍ فَقَامَ حِيَال رَأسه ثمَّ جاؤوا بِجَنَازَةِ امْرَأَةٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَقَالُوا: يَا أَبَا حَمْزَةَ صَلِّ عَلَيْهَا فَقَامَ حِيَالَ وَسَطِ السَّرِيرِ فَقَالَ لَهُ الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ: هَكَذَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَامَ على الْجِنَازَة مَقَامَكَ مِنْهَا؟ وَمِنَ الرَّجُلِ مَقَامَكَ مِنْهُ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ. رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ وَفِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي دَاوُدَ نَحْوُهُ مَعَ زِيَادَةٍ وَفِيهِ: فَقَامَ عِنْد عجيزة الْمَرْأَة
Nafi Abu Ghalib reported: I prayed with Anas ibn Malik over a man, and he stood opposite the man’s head. Then they brought the bier of a Qurayshi woman and said, ‘Abu Hamza, pray over her.’ He stood opposite the middle of the bier. Al-Ala ibn Ziyad said to him, ‘Did you see the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, stand at a funeral in the position you took for her, and at a man’s funeral in the position you took for him?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ Al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it. Abu Dawud transmitted something similar with an addition: he stood by the woman’s hip.
Translation notes
The English witness supplies Abu Hamza’s identification as Anas ibn Malik’s kunya; the Arabic source gives the kunya without explanation.