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1995. Abû Bakkâr Al-Ḥakam bin Farrûkh said: "Abû Al-Maliḥ led us in offering the funeral prayer and we thought that he had said the Takbîr, but he turned to us and said: 'Make your rows straight and intercede properly.' Abû Al-Maliḥ said:
Abdullâh – meaning Ibn Salîṭ – narrated to me that one of the Mothers of the believers, Maimûnah the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, said: The Prophet ﷺ 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 Abû Al-Malîḥ about the (number of that) group and he said: ‘Forty.’ (Hasan)
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In some of the narrations, from Allâh's Messenger ﷺ, an equivocal mention of forty persons occurs. (Sahîh Muslim: Al-Janâiz, Hadîth 948). Therefore, in this narration too, Abû Al-Malîḥ interpreted the expression "Umunah" or the as comprising forty individuals.
