463 – Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pronounce four takbīrs over our deceased, and during the first takbīr he would recite the Opening Chapter of the Book (Sūrat al-Fātiḥah).” It was narrated by al-Shāfiʿī with a weak chain.⦗1⦘

• Status of the ḥadīth:
  The report is weak.
  The author states that al-Shāfiʿī transmitted it with a weak isnād because it contains Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Yahyā al-Aslamī, who has been declared unreliable.
  Al-Ḥāfiẓ (Ibn Ḥajar) notes in Fatḥ al-Bārī that Shaykh Ibn al-ʿArabī, in his commentary on al-Tirmidhī, likewise deemed its chain weak.
  Nevertheless, Muslims today act in accordance with the meaning of this ḥadīth.
  For this reason Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: “Consensus was later formed on four takbīrs; the jurists and the muftīs of the various cities all agree on four, as stated in the sound aḥādīth.”