Then Mālik narrated—through Nāfiʿ from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar—that he said:
“The funeral prayer for ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb was offered inside the mosque.”

I say: its chain of transmission is as clear as the sun.

ʿUrwah likewise said:
“The funeral prayer for Abū Bakr was performed in the mosque.”

Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr recorded both this report and the one before it, as cited in al-Muntaqā.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Talkhīṣ: “It has been firmly established that ʿUmar led the funeral prayer for Abū Bakr in the mosque, and that Suhayb led the funeral prayer for ʿUmar in the mosque; this is found in the Muwaṭṭaʾ and elsewhere.”

I respond: the Muwaṭṭaʾ contains only the report about the prayer over ʿUmar. Al-Shawkānī reproduced it in Nayl with the very wording found in al-Talkhīṣ and remarked, “It was transmitted by Ibn Abī Shaybah.” He then added:

“This ḥadīth proves the permissibility of bringing the deceased into the mosque and performing the funeral prayer there. That is the view of al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad, Isḥāq, and the majority. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: it is also transmitted by the scholars of Medina in a version from Mālik, and Ibn Ḥabīb al-Mālikī held the same opinion. It was, however, disliked by Ibn Abī Dhiʾb, Abū Ḥanīfah, Mālik in the well-known view attributed to him, the Zaydīs, and everyone who regards the corpse as impure. They replied to the ḥadīth under discussion by saying that the funeral prayer over the two sons of Bayḍāʾ was—and they were