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المطالب العالية بزوائد المسانيد الثمانية
Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah
كتاب الجنائز
Book of Funerals
بَابُ غُسْلِ الْمَيِّتِ
Chapter: Washing the deceased
Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 796 — Washing the deceased
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى : حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ ، حَدَّثَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ الشَّامِيِّ ، عَنْ أَبِي غَالِبٍ ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ - رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ - عَنِ النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - قَالَ : مَنْ غَسَّلَ مَيِّتًا وَكَتَمَ عَلَيْهِ طَهَّرَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى مِنْ ذُنُوبِهِ ، فَإِنْ كَفَّنَهُ كَسَاهُ اللهُ - عَزَّ وَجَلَّ - مِنَ السُّنْدُسِ .
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever washes a deceased person and conceals (the faults and defects of the body that appear to him during it), Allah Almighty will purify him from his sins (so completely, as though he had become entirely free of sin); and if he also shrouds him, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will honour him with garments of the fine, delicate silk of Paradise."
Imam Abu Ya'la al-Mawsili recorded this hadith in his Musnad. The hadith scholars have criticised the memory of a narrator in its chain named Abu Ghalib; however, other narrations with the same meaning about concealing the faults of the deceased and about washing and shrouding him are also found in al-Mustadrak of al-Hakim and the Sunan of al-Bayhaqi, and they support this virtue.
Imam Abu Ya'la al-Mawsili recorded this hadith in his Musnad. The hadith scholars have criticised the memory of a narrator in its chain named Abu Ghalib; however, other narrations with the same meaning about concealing the faults of the deceased and about washing and shrouding him are also found in al-Mustadrak of al-Hakim and the Sunan of al-Bayhaqi, and they support this virtue.
