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Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1002

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Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1002
Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي زِيَادٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ كَيْسَانَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ "‏ الْمَيِّتُ يُعَذَّبُ بِبُكَاءِ أَهْلِهِ عَلَيْهِ ‏" ‏ ‏.‏ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ وَعِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ عُمَرَ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ ‏.‏ وَقَدْ كَرِهَ قَوْمٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ الْبُكَاءَ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ قَالُوا الْمَيِّتُ يُعَذَّبُ بِبُكَاءِ أَهْلِهِ عَلَيْهِ ‏.‏ وَذَهَبُوا إِلَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ ‏.‏ وَقَالَ ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ أَرْجُو إِنْ كَانَ يَنْهَاهُمْ فِي حَيَاتِهِ أَنْ لاَ يَكُونَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْءٌ ‏.‏

Translation

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Abdullah ibn Abi Ziyad narrated to us: Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim ibn Sa'd narrated to us: my father narrated to us, from Salih ibn Kaysan, from al-Zuhri, from Salim ibn Abdullah, from his father, who said: Umar ibn al-Khattab said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The deceased is punished because of his family's weeping over him." Reports on this topic are also related from Ibn Umar and Imran ibn Husayn. Abu Isa said: The hadith of Umar is hasan sahih. Some scholars disliked weeping over the deceased. They said, "The deceased is punished because of his family's weeping over him," and they relied on this hadith. Ibn al-Mubarak said: "I hope that if he forbade them from doing so during his lifetime, he will not have anything of that held against him."

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • ‏ وَقَالَ ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ أَرْجُو إِنْ كَانَ يَنْهَاهُمْ فِي حَيَاتِهِ أَنْ لاَ يَكُونَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْءٌ ‏.

    The final clause is an expressed hope and the Arabic leaves the referent of 'anything of that' implicit.

    Is 'held against him' an adequately neutral rendering of Ibn al-Mubarak's wording and its implied qualification?