Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 2757
لإرساله وَعَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ جَالِسًا وَقَبْرٌ يُحْفَرُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَاطَّلَعَ رَجُلٌ فِي الْقَبْرِ فَقَالَ: بِئْسَ مَضْجَعِ الْمُؤْمِنِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «بئس مَا قُلْتَ» قَالَ الرَّجُلُ إِنِّي لَمْ أُرِدْ هَذَا إِنَّمَا أَرَدْتُ الْقَتْلَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا مِثْلَ الْقَتْلِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ مَا عَلَى الْأَرْضِ بُقْعَةٌ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ أَنْ يَكُونَ قَبْرِي بِهَا مِنْهَا» ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ. رَوَاهُ مَالِكٌ مُرْسَلًا
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Yahya ibn Sa‘id reported that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) was sitting when a grave was being dug in Madinah. A man looked into the grave and said: ‘What a bad resting place for a believer!’ The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: ‘What a bad thing you have said!’ The man replied: ‘That is not what I meant; I meant being killed in the path of Allah.’ The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: ‘There is nothing like being killed in the path of Allah. There is no place on earth where I would love more for my grave to be than this place’—three times. Malik transmitted it as a mursal report. Its listed grading is da‘if (al-Albani).
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
لإرساله
An unattached phrase meaning ‘for its being sent’ appears immediately before the report and does not fit its syntax.
Is this stray text an editorial or ingestion artifact? It has been left untranslated as part of the source anomaly.