“three times.” Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Kabīr, and its chain includes Aḥmad ibn Rāshid, who is weak. Thus stated in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (4/167).

621 — “The Prophets—may Allah’s blessings be upon them—are alive in their graves, praying.”

Al-Bazzār narrated it in his Musnad (256), as did Tammām al-Rāzī in al-Fawāʾid (no. 56 in my copy); Ibn ʿAsākir narrated it from him in Tārīkh Dimashq (4/285/2), as did Ibn ʿAdī in al-Kāmil (folio 90/2) and al-Bayhaqī in Ḥayāt al-Anbiyāʾ (p. 3), through the route of al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah al-Madāʾinī, who said: Mustalim ibn Saʿīd al-Thaqafī narrated to us from al-Ḥajjāj ibn al-Aswad, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Anas, attributing it to the Prophet with this wording.

Al-Bayhaqī said: “It is considered one of the reports uniquely narrated by al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah.” Ibn ʿAdī said: “He has unusual, good hadiths, and I hope that there is no harm in him.” This is what he said, but al-Dhahabī rebutted him, stating: “Rather, he is utterly discredited. Al-Dāraquṭnī said, in al-Barqānī’s transmission from him: ‘His hadith is abandoned.’ Abū Ḥātim said: ‘He is weak.’ Al-Azdī said: ‘He is very weak in hadith.’ Al-ʿUqaylī said: ‘He makes many errors.’”

I say: Al-Ḥāfiẓ concurred with him in al-Lisān. The remaining narrators in the chain are trustworthy; none of them requires scrutiny apart from al-Ḥajjāj ibn al-Aswad,