Category:The Book of Burials in Muwata Malik

List of Chapters in The Book of Burials

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The Book of Burials Summary

1. Yahya related to me from Malik from Ayyub ibn Abi Tamima as Sakhtayani from Muhammad ibn Sirin that Umm Atiyya al Ansariyya said The Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace cameto us when his daughter died and said Wash her three times or five or more than that if you think it necessary with water and lotusleaves and at the end put on some camphor or a little camphor andwhen you have finished let me know
2. Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard people ofknowledge say When a woman dies and there are no women with her towash her and no man who has the right by blood ties to take charge ofthat for her and no husband to take charge of it for her she shouldbe purified by tayammum that is by wiping her face and hands withearth
3. Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that hisfather said There were two men in Madina one of whom dug graveswith a niche in the side wall for the body and the other who did not and they said Whichever one comes first can do the job and the onewho dug graves with a niche came first and dug the Messenger ofAllah s grave may Allah bless him and grant him peace
4. Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Wafid ibnAmr ibn Said ibn Muadh from Nafi ibn Jubayr ibn Mutim from Masud ibnal Hakam from AIi ibn Abi Talib that the Messenger of Allah may Allahbless him and grant him peace used to stand up when a funeralprocession passed by and then sit down again afterwards
5. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abdullah ibnJabir ibn Atik that Atik ibn al Harith the grandfather of Abdullahibn Abdullah ibn Jabir on his mother s side told him that Jabir ibnAtik had told him that the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him andgrant him peace came to visit Abdullah ibn Thabit and found him inhis death throes
6. Someone who is killed by the plague is a martyr someone who drowns isa martyr someone who dies of pleurisy is a martyr someone who diesof a disease of the belly is a martyr someone who dies by fire is amartyr someone who dies under a falling building is a martyr and awoman who dies in childbirth is a martyr
7. Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr ibn Amribn Hazm from his father from Abu n Nadr as Salami that the Messengerof Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace said If three ofa muslim s children die and he remains content with that they willbe a protection for him from the Fire
8. Do you then grieve over what Allah has lent you and then takenfrom you when He has a greater right to it than you Then he sawthe situation he was in and Allah helped him by her words
9. If you are one of the people of the Garden then you will be with the people of the Garden and if you are one ofthe people of the Fire then you will be with the people of the Fire
10. Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Abd ar Rahmanibn Kab ibn Malik al Ansari told him that his father Kab ibn Malik used to relate that the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him andgrant him peace said The ruh of the mumin is a bird that sits inthe trees of the Garden until Allah returns it to his body on the dayHe raises him
11. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu z Zinad from al Araj fromAbu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and granthim peace said Allah the Blessed and Exalted said If My slavelongs to meet Me I long to meet him and if he is averse to meetingMe I am averse to meeting him
12. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu z Zinad from al Araj fromAbu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and granthim peace said A man said to his family that he had never done agood action and that when he died they were to burn him and thenscatter half of him on the land and half of him on the sea and byAllah if Allah destined it for him He would punish him with apunishment which He had not punished anyone else with in all theworlds
13. They said Who is theone relieved and the one from whom others are relieved He said Aslave who is mumin is the one who is relieved from the exhaustion andsuffering of this world to the mercy of Allah and a wrong actingslave is the one from whom people towns trees and animals arerelieved
14. Barira arrived back before him and toldme and I did not say anything to him until morning and then Imentioned it to him and he explained I was sent out to the people ofal Baqi to pray for them

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