حدثنا سُوَيْدُ بن نَصْرٍ حدثنا عبد اللّٰهِ بن الْمُبَارَكِ عن حَمَّادِ بن سَلَمَةَ عن أبي سِنَانٍ قال دَفَنْتُ ابْنِي سِنَانًا وأبو طَلْحَةَ الْخَوْلَانِيُّ جَالِسٌ علي شَفِيرِ الْقَبْرِ فلما أَرَدْتُ الْخُرُوجَ أَخَذَ بِيَدِي فقال ألا أُبَشِّرُكَ يا أَبَا سِنَانٍ قلت بَلَي فقال حدثني الضَّحَّاكُ بن عبد الرحمن بن عَرْزَبٍ عن أبي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللّٰهِ صلي اللّٰه عليه وسلم قال إذا مَاتَ وَلَدُ الْعَبْدِ قال اللّٰه لِمَلَائِكَتِهِ قَبَضْتُمْ وَلَدَ عَبْدِي فَيَقُولُونَ نعم فيقول قَبَضْتُمْ ثَمَرَةَ فُؤَادِهِ فَيَقُولُونَ نعم فيقول مَاذَا قال عَبْدِي فَيَقُولُونَ حَمِدَكَ وَاسْتَرْجَعَ فيقول اللّٰه ابْنُوا لِعَبْدِي بَيْتًا في الْجَنَّةِ وَسَمُّوهُ بَيْتَ الْحَمْدِ قال أبو عِيسَي هذا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ

Abū Mūsa al-Ash‘arī reports that God’s Messenger said: “When a child of my servant dies, God tells his angels: ‘You have claimed the soul of my servant’s child.’ They reply: ‘Yes.’ God then says: ‘Have you claimed the fruit of his heart?’ Thereupon, they answer: ‘Yes.’ At this, God says: ‘What did my servant say?’ They reply: ‘He praised you and expressed that he was for you and would return to you.’ God then says: ‘Build a house for my servant in Paradise and called it House of Hamd.’”1

Following is the schematic illustration of the isnād of this narrative’s variants:

The name of Abū Talhah al-Khawlānī is obscure. Al-Mizzī, while quoting different authorities mentions the following possibilities: Sufyān ibn ‘Abdullāh, Dir‘ ibn ‘Abdullāh, Dhir ibn ‘Abdullāh.2 Ibn Abī Hātim does not mention and jarh or ta‘dīl on him.3 Ibn Hajar says that he is maqbūl.4 Al-Dhahabī says: fīhī jahālah.5

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1. Al-Tirmidhī, Sunan, vol. 3, 341, no. 1021. See also: Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Musnad, vol. 4, 415, (no. 19740); Al-Tayālisī, Musnad, vol. 1, 69, (no. 508); ‘Abd ibn Humayd, Musnad, vol. 1, 194, (no. 551); Ibn Hibbān, Ṣahīh, vol. 7, 210, (no. 2948); Al-Bayhaqī, Al-Sunan al-kubrā, vol. 4, 68, (no. 6938); Al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, vol. 33, 442; Ibn ‘Asākir, Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq, vol. 47, 300; Al-Bayhaqī, Shu‘b al-īmān, vol. 7, 118, (no. 9699); Ibn al-Mubārak, Al-Zuhd, vol. 2, 27, (no. 108); Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ishāq, ‘Aml al-yawm wa al-laylah, vol. 1, 533, (no. 581).

This narrative is also reported in mawqūf form. See: Al-Bayhaqī, Shu‘b al-īmān, vol. 7, 119, (no. 9700).

2. Al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, vol. 33, 441-442.

3. Ibn Abī Hātim, Al-Jarh wa al-ta‘dīl, vol. 9, 396.

4. Ibn Hajar, Taqrīb, 652.

5. Al-Dhahabī, Al-Kāshif, vol. 2, 437.