2141 – Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd informed us; he said: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubashshir narrated to us; he said: Abū al-Ashʿath narrated to us; he said: Ḥammād ibn Zayd, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, who said:

“I saw Abū Hurayrah perform the funeral prayer for a newborn who had never committed a single sin, and he supplicated, ‘O Allah, protect him from the torment of the grave.’”