and seventy and six hundred—that is, 674 AH. ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the ḥāfiẓ of Ḥarrān, related it to us in 605 AH; Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥasan related it to us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Mandah related it to us; my father related it to us; al-Haytham ibn Kulayb narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; Ibn Wahb narrated to us; Ibn Jurayj informed me, from Ayyūb ibn Hāniʾ, from Masrūq, from ʿAbd Allāh:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ once went out, and I went out with him until we reached the graveyard. He ordered us to sit, so we sat. He then stepped over the graves until he came to one of them, sat down beside it, and conversed with it at length. Presently the sobbing of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ rose and he wept, so we wept at his weeping.

He then came toward us, and ʿUmar met him and said, “O Prophet of Allah, what made you weep? You have made us weep and alarmed us.”

He took ʿUmar by the hand, then beckoned to us, and we approached him. He said, “Did my weeping alarm you?”

We replied, “Yes.”

He said, “The grave you saw me beside is that of Āminah bint Wahb. I asked my Lord for permission to seek forgiveness for her, but He did not permit me, and the verse was revealed to me: ‘It is not for the Prophet and those who believe to ask forgiveness for the polytheists…’—the two verses (al-Tawbah 9:113–114). Compassion seized me—the tenderness a child feels for its parent—and that is what made me cry. I had previously forbidden you to visit graves; so visit them, for they make one disdain this world and remember the Hereafter.”

This is among the singular reports of ḥadith.

It was recorded by Ibn Mājah through a reliable transmitter (1), from