📒 Clarifying the condition of a ḥadīth

The ḥadīth ⤵️ ’Abdullāh ibn ’Amr said, “A man passed away in Madīnah and he was someone who was [actually] born there. The Prophet ﷺ performed the funeral prayer over him and then said, ‘Would that he had died somewhere else apart from his birthplace.’ So a man said, ‘Why, O Messenger of Allāh?’ He replied, ‘When a person dies somewhere which isn’t his birthplace a space is measured for him in Paradise [equal to the distance] from his birthplace to the place where he died.’” This ḥadīth was graded Ḥasan by Sheikh Albāni in Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Jāmi’ 1616 The meaning of his statement ﷺ is: measure for him (the distance) between his birth place and the place where he passed away in Jannah. So he will be given a space in Jannah equivalent to the distance between his birth place and the place where he passed away; as found in the explanation of Sunan An-Nasā'ē who attributed it to Aṭ-Ṭībī. The clarification ⤵️ I (’Abdulḥamīd Az-Zu'kari) say: The ḥadīth appears to be Ḥasan, but in Al-Kubrā (1971) An-Nasā'ē established that it has a hidden defect; he said: Ḥuyayy ibn ’Abdillāh (one of the subnarrators) is not one to be relied upon, so this ḥadīth is ghayr maḥfudh with us (i.e. transmitted through a narrator who has gone against a stronger narrator/narration) and Allāh knows best; because it is authentically reported from the Prophet ﷺ that he said: ((من استطاع منكم أن يموت في المدينة فإني أشفع لمن مات بها)) “Whoever is able to die in Madīnah (should do so), because I will intercede for those who die therein.” We used to hear our Sheikh Muqbil raḥimahullāh say along the lines of: “The i’lāl (weakening of a ḥadīth due to a hidden defect) by the earlier ones takes precedence over the taṣ-ḥīḥ (authentication) of the later ones.” ____ Benefitted from Abū Āsiyah Mudhaffar Original source: https://t.me/A_lzoukory/1699