“Four practices remain among my ummah which they will not abandon: boasting of one’s ancestry, disparaging people’s lineages, and wailing over the dead. If she does not repent, the woman who wails will be raised on the Day of Resurrection wearing a garment of tar.”
Al-Haythamī cited it in al-Majmaʿ (3/13) and said: “Al-Bazzār narrated it, and its chain of transmission is good.” The fourth trait is not mentioned in it, so I do not know whether it was omitted by the narrator or by the copyist. This addition—“the woman who wails, if she does not repent,” and so on—is established in the hadith of Abū Mālik al-Ashʿarī, as will come under “the woman who wails...” no. 1952.
The hadith also has corroborating reports with the wording, “Two practices among the people...” It is cited in Sharḥ al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah (p. 298). “Three are among the practices...” and “Three are forms of disbelief”—both will appear under no. 1801. “Two branches of disbelief” will appear under no. 1896. “Three are not abandoned.”
- “Your ties of kinship, your ties of kinship!”
Ibn Ḥibbān (2037) and al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī, in “Session 86 of al-Amālī,” narrated it from al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān: Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us; Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayr narrated to us; Sufyān narrated to us, from Sulaymān al-Taymī, from Qatādah, from Anas, that the Prophet said this during his illness. He then cited it and said: “This is an authentic hadith. Ibn Ḥibbān included it in his Ṣaḥīḥ in this form. Al-Rāfiʿī also narrated it in his Amālī through Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, from Qatādah, with the wording: ‘Maintain your ties of kinship, for this will bring you more lasting benefit in this world and the Hereafter.’ He did not say, ‘during his illness.’”
- “Seek refuge in Allah Most High from the evil eye, for the evil eye is real.”
Ibn Mājah (2/356) and al-Kharāʾiṭī, in Makārim al-Akhlāq (89–90), recorded it.