for more than three days—so eat and store whatever you wish; and I had forbidden you to drink from these kinds of vessels—so drink from whatever you wish.’ (1)

Al-Bayhaqī likewise transmitted the report (2) through the chain of Sufyān al-Thawrī, from ʿAlqamah ibn Marthad (3), from Sulaymān ibn Buraydah, from his father, who said:

The Prophet ﷺ reached the site of a grave and sat down, and the people sat around him. He began to move his head as though speaking with someone, then he wept. ʿUmar came forward and said, ‘What makes you weep, O Messenger of Allah?’ He replied, ‘This is the grave of Āminah bint Wahb. I asked my Lord for permission to visit her grave and He granted it; I then asked Him to allow me to seek forgiveness for her, but He denied me. Compassion for her overtook me, so I wept.’ He added, ‘I have never seen a time with more weeping than that moment.’ (4)

Muḥārib ibn Dithār corroborated it, narrating from Ibn Buraydah, from his father.

Al-Bayhaqī then related, through al-Ḥākim, al-Aṣamm, Baḥr ibn Naṣr (5), and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, who said: Ibn Jurayj told us, from Ayyūb ibn Hānīʾ, from Masrūq ibn al-Ajdaʿ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ went out to the cemetery and we went out with him. He ordered us (5) to sit, then walked among the graves until he reached one of them and spoke to it at length. The sobbing of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ then grew loud, and we wept because of his weeping. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came toward us, and ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb met him and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what made you weep? You have caused us to weep and alarmed us.’ He sat with us and said, ‘Did my weeping alarm you?’ We replied, ‘Yes.’ He said:

‘The grave you saw me conversing with is the grave of Āminah bint Wahb. I asked my Lord to allow me to visit it, and He permitted me; I asked Him to allow me to seek forgiveness for her, but He did not permit me. Then the following was revealed to me: “It is not for the Prophet and those who believe to pray for the forgiveness of the idolaters, even though they be close kin, after it has become clear to them that they are people of the Fire. And Abraham’s prayer for his father was only because of a promise he had made to him; but when it became clear to him that he was an enemy to Allah, he disowned him. Indeed, Abraham was tender-hearted, forbearing” (al-Tawbah 9:113–114). Tenderness for her, such as a child feels for his mother, overcame me; that is what made me weep.’

This report is uncommon, and it was not recorded by the two Ṣaḥīḥs (7).

Muslim also narrated (8) from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, from Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd, from Yazīd ibn Kaysān, from Abū Ḥāzim,