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Should The Martyr Be Washed?

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Darussalam · Volume 3

BOOK 20. THE BOOKOF FUNERALS

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الحديث: 3136 ¦ الجزء: 3 ¦ الصفحة: 195

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3136. (Another chain) from Anas bin Mālik who said that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ passed by Hamzah, who had been mutilated, and said: "Were it not that Safiyyah would be grieved, I would have left him for the scavengers to eat, so that he would be resurrected from their bellies." Shrouds were few and the slain were many, so one or two, or three men, were shrouded in a single cloth. Qutaibah (one of the narrators) added: "Then they were buried in a single grave, and the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ would ask: 'Which of them knew more Qur'ān?' Then he would place him closer to the Qiblah." (Da'if)

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3136 - حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ الْحُبَابِ، ح وحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو صَفْوَانَ يَعْنِي الْمَرْوَانِيَّ، عَنْ أُسَامَةَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْمَعْنَى، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَرَّ عَلَى حَمْزَةَ وَقَدْ مُثِّلَ بِهِ، فَقَالَ: «لَوْلَا أَنْ تَجِدَ صَفِيَّةُ فِي نَفْسِهَا لَتَرَكْتُهُ حَتَّى تَأْكُلَهُ الْعَافِيَةُ، حَتَّى يُحْشَرَ مِنْ بُطُونِهَا»، وَقَلَّتِ الثِّيَابُ وَكَثُرَتِ الْقَتْلَى، فَكَانَ الرَّجُلُ وَالرَّجُلَانِ وَالثَّلَاثَةُ يُكَفَّنُونَ فِي الثَّوْبِ الْوَاحِدِ - زَادَ قُتَيْبَةُ: ثُمَّ يُدْفَنُونَ فِي قَبْرٍ وَاحِدٍ - فَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَسْأَلُ أَيُّهُمْ أَكْثَرُ قُرْآنًا فَيُقَدِّمُهُ إِلَى الْقِبْلَةِ

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