480 – Damrah ibn Ḥabīb, one of the Successors, said: “They regarded it as recommended that once the grave had been levelled over the deceased and the people had departed, someone should stand at his grave and say: ‘O so-and-so, say: Lā ilāha illā Allah (There is no god but Allah),’ three times; then, ‘O so-and-so, say: My Lord is Allah, my religion is Islam, and my Prophet is Muhammad.’” Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr recorded it as a mawqūf report, while al-Ṭabarānī transmitted a similar, but longer, marfūʿ version from Abū Umāmah. (1)

Hadith grading:
This narration is weak.
Al-Ṭabarānī related it through Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Azdī, who is unknown. Al-Nawawī and al-ʿIrāqī both judged its chain weak, and Ibn al-Qayyim stated that it is not authentic. What appears more likely is that the report is muqṭūʿ and mawqūf, stopping at Damrah ibn Ḥabīb, a Successor.

Vocabulary:
• suwiya: passive form of taswiyah, “to level.”
• fulān: Al-Muḥīṭ explains that fulān (masc.) and fulānah (fem.), without the definite article, are stand-in names for someone possessing intellect. They function like proper names, refusing the article and, in the feminine, taking no tanwīn. When the reference is to something without intellect, the surrogate name is preceded by “al-” to distinguish it from the rational subject.

Points derived from the two narrations:
1 – Hadith 479 shows that the deceased benefits from supplication and seeking forgiveness for him, and it also indicates