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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Clarification of the validity of the chains of narration and texts of the following hadith: (Whoever washes a corpse and keeps it secret, Allah forgives him forty major sins).

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The Shaykh : There are two issues concerning the fact that:
He who washes a dead body and conceals what he notices of physical defects, he will be forgiven forty times مَن غسَّل ميتًا وكتم عليه غفر الله له أربعين كبيرة
Riyad as-Salihin 928
, in the other narration there is no explicit mention of: major sins, but rather it said:
forty timesأربعين مرة
, and we said last night that we had not noticed this difference to verify in the narration: is each one valid in itself, in which case it is stopped as we mentioned, or is one established and the other weak. I promised you that I would bring you an answer in this lesson, and Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has made it easy, so here I am doing it: the hadith here, regarding the first narration, which is his saying:
and conceals what he notices of physical defects, he will be forgiven forty times فكتم عليه غفر الله له أربعين كبيرة
Riyad as-Salihin 928
: he says: "It was narrated by al-Tabarani in al-Kabir, and its narrators are relied upon in the Sahih." As for the narration:
he will be forgiven forty times غفر الله له أربعين مرة
Riyad as-Salihin 928
, he attributed it to al-Hakim in al-Mustadrak and said: "Authentic according to the conditions of Muslim." So naturally, I returned to these two sources. The first source: al-Tabarani's al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, which narrated the first narration with the wording:
forty major sins أربعين كبيرة
, and I found in the chain, as the author said, that its men are the men of the Sahih.
Source www.al-albany.com

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