Hadith 1995

أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ، قال : أَنْبَأَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَوَاءٍ أَبُو الْخَطَّابِ ، قال : حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكَّارٍ الْحَكَمُ بْنُ فَرُّوخَ ، قال : صَلَّى بِنَا أَبُو الْمَلِيحِ عَلَى جَنَازَةٍ فَظَنَنَّا أَنَّهُ قَدْ كَبَّرَ فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا بِوَجْهِهِ , فَقَالَ : أَقِيمُوا صُفُوفَكُمْ وَلْتَحْسُنْ شَفَاعَتُكُمْ , قَالَ أَبُو الْمَلِيحِ : حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَهُوَ ابْنُ سَلِيطٍ ، عَنْ إِحْدَى أُمَّهَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَهِيَ مَيْمُونَةُ زَوْجُ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، قَالَتْ : أَخْبَرَنِي النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ : " مَا مِنْ مَيِّتٍ يُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِلَّا شُفِّعُوا فِيهِ " , فَسَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْمَلِيحِ عَنِ الْأُمَّةِ , فَقَالَ : أَرْبَعُونَ .
´Abu Bakkar Al-Hakam bin Farrukh said:` "Abu Al-Malih led us in offering the funeral prayer and we thought that he had said the Takbir, but he turned to us and said: 'Make you rows straight and intercede properly.' Abu Al-Malih said: Abdullah - meaning Ibn Salit-narrated to me that one of the Mothers of the believes, Maimunah the wife of the Prophet, said: The Prophet told me: There is no deceased person for whom a group of people offers the funeral prayer, but their intercession for him will be accepted.' I asked Abu Al-Malih about the (number of that) group and he said: 'Forty."'
Hadith Reference سنن نسائي / كتاب الجنائز / 1995
Hadith Grading الألبانی: حسن صحيح  |  زبیر علی زئی: إسناده حسن
Hadith Takhrij «تفرد بہ النسائي، (تحفة الأشراف: 18059) ، مسند احمد 6/331، 334 (حسن صحیح)»
Explanation & Benefits
Hafiz Muhammad Ameen
1995. Commentary: In some narrations, there is an explicit mention of forty individuals from the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). See: (Sahih Muslim, Al-Jana'iz, Hadith: 948). Therefore, Abu Mulaīh (rahimahullah) has also interpreted “ummah,” that is, “group,” in this narration as referring to forty individuals. Rahimahullah.
Source: Sunan Nasa'i: Translation and Benefits by Shaykh Hafiz Muhammad Amin Hafizullah, Page: 1995