What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked To Announce One's Death (An-Na'i)
Darussalam · Volume 2
8. The Chapters On Janā'iz From The Messenger of Allāh ﷺJami at-Tirmidhi Darussalam English translation
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Source no. 986 · Volume 2 · Page 486
Hasan
حسن، ابن ماجة (١٤٧٦)
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986. Bilāl bin Yahya Al-'Anbāsī narrated that Hudhaifah (bin Al-Yamān) said: "When I die do not announce about me to anyone, indeed I fear that it would be An-Na'ī, and I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ prohibiting from An-Na'ī." (Da'īf) This Hadīth is Hasan [Sahīh].
٩٨٦ - حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْقُدُّوسِ بْنُ بَكْرِ بْنِ خُنَيْسٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَبِيبُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ الْعَبْسِيُّ ، عَنْ بِلَالِ بْنِ يَحْيَى الْعَبْسِيِّ ، عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ الْيَمَانِ قَالَ: «إِذَا مُتُّ فَلَا تُؤْذِنُوا بِي، إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ يَكُونَ نَعْيًا»، فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَنْهَى عَنِ النَّعْيِ. هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ.
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An-Na'ī means to give or announce the information of someone's death as the Prophet ﷺ announced the news of An-Najashi's death or the news of Zaid and Ja'far's deaths. There are three aspects of such announcements. 1. To inform the relatives and friends etc., this type of announcement is allowed. 2. To inform the people and invite them as a symbol of pride and status. This is an unbecoming thing and it is disapproved. 3. Announcement of the death in a way as the people used to do in the period Jāhiliyyah. This type of announcement is of two types. A) In the era of Jāhiliyyah when a rich or a person of status died, they used to send a person to different tribes to announce his death with the beat of the drum. B) When a person of status or a rich person dies, they used to call the lamenting women who would cry on the death and would pronounce the important deeds of the deceased. This kind of announcement of death was for the sake of pride and vanity. This is prohibited. Just informing the friend and relatives is allowed. (Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi v. 2 p129 and Faṭh Al-Bārī v. 3 p. 151.)