You guided her to Islam, and You took her soul, and You know best her secret and her public affairs. We have come as intercessors, so forgive him." (1)

Abu Dawud said: Shu'bah erred in the name of 'Ali ibn Shammakh; he said: 'Uthman ibn Shammas.

Abu Dawud said: I heard Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Mawsili narrating to Ahmad ibn Hanbal, saying: I do not know that I sat in any gathering with Hammad ibn Zayd in which he did not forbid [speaking against] 'Abd al-Warith and Ja'far ibn Sulayman. (2)

3201 - Musa ibn Marwan al-Raqqi narrated to us, Shu'ayb — meaning Ibn Ishaq — narrated to us, from al-Awza'i, from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, prayed over a funeral and said: "O Allah, forgive our living and our dead, our young and our old, our male and our female, our present and our absent."

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(1) Its chain is weak due to the unknown status of 'Ali ibn Shammakh, and due to a discrepancy in its chain, with some narrating it as a saying of Abu Hurayrah (mawquf), as is clarified in "Al-Musnad" (7477). Nevertheless, al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar deemed it good (hasan) in his "Amali" on al-Nawawi's "Al-Adhkar," as quoted from him by Ibn 'Allan in "Al-Futuhat al-Rabbaniyyah" 4/176, and Shaykh Ahmad Shakir declared it authentic (sahih) in his commentary on "Al-Musnad." 'Abd al-Warith: he is Ibn Sa'id al-'Anbari.

It was also narrated by al-Nasa'i in "Al-Kubra" (10850) via the chain of 'Abd al-Warith ibn Sa'id, with this chain.

It was also narrated by al-Nasa'i (10849) via the chain of Shu'bah ibn al-Hajjaj, from al-Jallas, who said: I heard 'Uthman ibn Shammas [say]: Marwan said: O Abu Hurayrah... And Shu'bah erred here in two places: he named his teacher Jallas, whereas he was Abu al-Jallas, and he named Abu al-Jallas's teacher 'Uthman ibn Shammas, whereas he was 'Ali ibn Shammakh, as corrected by the scholars, including Abu Dawud, Abu Zur'ah, al-Tabarani, al-Daraqutni, and al-Mizzi.

See also "Musnad Ahmad" (7477) and (8545).

(2) These two statements of Abu Dawud, we have confirmed them from (H).