Al-Kafi · Hadith 7

The Book on Dying People · Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person Hostile to ’A’immah · Volume 3, book 3, chapter 58, Hadith 7

Original Arabic text

7ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله الْحَجَّالِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) أَوْ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) قَالَ مَاتَتِ امْرَأَةٌ مِنْ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ فَحَضَرْتُهَا فَلَمَّا صَلَّوْا عَلَيْهَا وَرَفَعُوهَا وَصَارَتْ عَلَى أَيْدِي الرِّجَالِ قَالَ اللهمَّ ضَعْهَا وَلاَ تَرْفَعْهَا وَلاَ تُزَكِّهَا قَالَ وَكَانَتْ عَدُوَّةً لله قَالَ وَلاَ أَعْلَمُهُ إِلاَّ قَالَ وَلَنَا.

Published English translation

7. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ‘Abd Allah al-Hajjal from Hammad ibn ‘Uthaman from abu‘ Abd Allah or from those whom he has mentioned who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘Once a woman of banu ‘Umayyah died and I was present in her funeral. When they performed Salah (prayer) and picked her body when on the hands of men he (the Imam) said, ‘O Lord, put her down and do not raise her and do not cleanse her.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘She was an enemy of Allah -I think he said- and our (enemy).”’

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مرسل

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/79)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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