3 of 3 · d. 51 AH · 671 CE · Sarif, near Makkah
Maymunah bint al-Harith رضي الله عنها
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'A'ishah said of Maymunah that she was among the wives most mindful of Allah and the most devoted to keeping ties of kinship. She lived some forty years after the Prophet ﷺ, and by the will of Allah she died at Sarif — the same place on the road outside Makkah where, as a bride, she had first joined his household. She was buried there.
Her nephew Ibn 'Abbas, now an old man and a great scholar, attended her funeral. As the bier was lifted, he told the people: "This is the wife of the Prophet ﷺ. When you raise her bier, do not shake it or jolt it; be gentle" (Sahih al-Bukhari 5067). The reverence the Companions had for the Prophet ﷺ extended to the household he left behind.
Ibn 'Abbas taught that honouring the Prophet ﷺ includes honouring his household, even in the way one carries them to their grave.
How do you show respect for the Prophet ﷺ in the way you speak of his family and Companions?
- Sahih al-Bukhari 5067 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Sahih al-Bukhari 5254 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabaqat al-KubraHistorical report
- al-Hakim, al-MustadrakHistorical report
- al-Dhahabi, Siyar A'lam al-Nubala'Historical report
- Ibn Kathir, al-Bidayah wa al-NihayahHistorical report
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
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