سنن ابن ماجه
Ibn Majah
كتاب الجنائزChapters: Regarding Funerals
بَابُ : مَا جَاءَ فِي الصَّلاَةِ عَلَى ابْنِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَذِكْرِ وَفَاتِهِChapter: What was narrated concerning the funeral prayer offered for the son of the Messenger of Allah (SAW) and the report of his death
Hadith 1511
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْقُدُّوسِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ شَبِيبٍ الْبَاهِلِيُّ ، حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ ، حَدَّثَنَا الْحَكَمُ بْنُ عُتَيْبَةَ ، عَنْ مِقْسَمٍ ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ، قَالَ : لَمَّا مَاتَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ ابْنُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَقَالَ : " إِنَّ لَهُ مُرْضِعًا فِي الْجَنَّةِ ، وَلَوْ عَاشَ لَكَانَ صِدِّيقًا نَبِيًّا ، وَلَوْ عَاشَ لَعَتَقَتْ أَخْوَالُهُ الْقِبْطُ ، وَمَا اسْتُرِقَّ قِبْطِيٌّ " .
´It was narrated that Ibn ‘Abbas said:` “Then Ibrahim the son of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) died, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed and said: ‘He has a wet-nurse in Paradise, and if he had lived he would have been a Siddiq and a Prophet. If he had lived his maternal uncles, the Egyptians, would have been set free and no Egyptian would ever have been enslaved.’”
Explanation & Benefits
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefits and Issues:
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Our esteemed researcher has declared the mentioned narration to be weak in its chain of transmission. However, Shaykh al-Albani rahimahullah writes in his research on this narration: This statement—“If Ibrahim radi Allahu anhu had lived, he would have been a prophet”—is not established as a marfu‘ (attributed directly to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) hadith. However, it is authentic as a statement of the Companions radi Allahu anhum ajma‘in. He further writes that, except for this sentence (“If he had lived... and the Copt was not enslaved”), the rest is authentic. Likewise, Dr. Bashar ‘Awwad has also declared the mentioned narration authentic except for its last sentence (“I would have set his brothers free”). For details, see: (Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Da‘ifah wa al-Mawdu‘ah: 1/387, 388, Hadith: 220; Sahih Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith: 1236; Sunan Ibn Majah by Dr. Bashar ‘Awwad, Hadith: 1511)
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When Ibrahim radi Allahu anhu passed away, he was at the age of nursing. Allah, the Exalted, granted him the honor that he drank the milk of the maidens of Paradise (hur al-‘ayn). It is possible that this honor was specific to Ibrahim radi Allahu anhu, and it is also possible that all believing children who die in infancy receive this. In any case, these are matters of the unseen. Therefore, only Allah, the Exalted, knows the true reality of the matter.
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Our esteemed researcher has declared the mentioned narration to be weak in its chain of transmission. However, Shaykh al-Albani rahimahullah writes in his research on this narration: This statement—“If Ibrahim radi Allahu anhu had lived, he would have been a prophet”—is not established as a marfu‘ (attributed directly to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) hadith. However, it is authentic as a statement of the Companions radi Allahu anhum ajma‘in. He further writes that, except for this sentence (“If he had lived... and the Copt was not enslaved”), the rest is authentic. Likewise, Dr. Bashar ‘Awwad has also declared the mentioned narration authentic except for its last sentence (“I would have set his brothers free”). For details, see: (Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Da‘ifah wa al-Mawdu‘ah: 1/387, 388, Hadith: 220; Sahih Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith: 1236; Sunan Ibn Majah by Dr. Bashar ‘Awwad, Hadith: 1511)
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When Ibrahim radi Allahu anhu passed away, he was at the age of nursing. Allah, the Exalted, granted him the honor that he drank the milk of the maidens of Paradise (hur al-‘ayn). It is possible that this honor was specific to Ibrahim radi Allahu anhu, and it is also possible that all believing children who die in infancy receive this. In any case, these are matters of the unseen. Therefore, only Allah, the Exalted, knows the true reality of the matter.
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 1511
