3226 - Musaddad and ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us, both saying: Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, and from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, with this ḥadīth(1).--------------------------------------------
=It is in *Musnad Aḥmad* (14148) and *Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān* (3162–3165).
See also what follows it.

Al-Nawawī said in *al-Majmūʿ* 5/298: Al-Shāfiʿī and the companions [of his school] said: It is disliked to plaster a grave with gypsum, to write upon it the name of its occupant or anything else, and to build over it. There is no disagreement on this in our school. Mālik, Aḥmad, Dāwūd, and the majority of scholars also held this view. Abū Ḥanīfah said: It is not disliked.

We say: However, al-Ṭaḥāwī in his gloss on *Marāqī al-Falāḥ* quoted the author of *al-Baḥr* as saying: The aforementioned ḥadīth prohibits writing, so let it be the relied-upon view. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī also said in *Ghunyat al-Mutamallī fī Sharḥ Munyat al-Muṣallī* (p. 599): Abū Yūsuf also disliked writing.

As for *al-taqṣīṣ* (plastering with gypsum): It is said in *al-Lisān*: *al-qaṣṣ* is gypsum, a Ḥijāzī dialectal term, and it is said [to mean] stones made of gypsum. One says *qaṣṣaṣa dārah* meaning he plastered his house with gypsum. A city described as *muqaṣṣaṣah* is one coated with gypsum, and likewise a grave described as *muqaṣṣaṣ*. … *Al-taqṣīṣ* is *al-tajṣīṣ* (gypsum plastering).

(1) This ḥadīth has two chains of transmission: The first is: from Ibn Jurayj, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, and this is a sound chain in which both Ibn Jurayj and Abū al-Zubayr explicitly stated that they heard it directly, as in the preceding chain in the author's work. The second is: from Ibn Jurayj, from Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, from Jābir, and this is disconnected, because Sulaymān ibn Mūsā — namely al-Ashdaq — did not hear from Jābir, and Ibn Jurayj did not explicitly state that he heard it from Sulaymān. However, the additional wording he included in his narration is supported by a corroborating narrator, as we explained in the preceding ḥadīth.

It was also transmitted with the first chain by Muslim (970) and al-Nasāʾī (2027) via the route of Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, with it.
It is in *Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān* (3163) in abbreviated form, containing the prohibition on building over the grave.

It was transmitted with the second chain by Ibn Mājah (1563) and al-Nasāʾī (2027) via the route of Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, with it. Ibn Mājah restricted it to the prohibition on writing.

It is in *Musnad Aḥmad* (14149) from Muḥammad ibn Bakr, from Ibn Jurayj.

Al-Ṭabarānī also transmitted it in *al-Awsaṭ* (7699) via the route of Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, from Ibn Jurayj, from Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, from ʿAṭāʾ, from Jābir. It was said that Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ is weak but his narration may be considered, and he differed in the chain from Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth and Muḥammad ibn Bakr, both of whom are trustworthy.