and Aḥmad (1/97 and 131) and Abū Muḥammad al-Khaldi in a section of "His Benefits" (Q 47/1) through various chains from Abū Isḥāq from Nājiya ibn Kaʿb from ʿAlī who said: "I said to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): 'Your misguided uncle has died.' So who will bury him?" He said: "Then he mentioned it." I said: This is an authentic chain; all its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, except for Nājiya ibn Kaʿb, who is trustworthy as mentioned in "al-Taqrīb." Al-Rāfiʿī strengthened it, and al-Ḥāfiẓ followed him in "al-Talkhīṣ," as I clarified in "Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl" (707). It has another chain in the Musnad of Aḥmad (1/103) and "The Additions of His Son to It" (1/129-130) from al-Ḥasan ibn Yazīd al-Aṣamm who said: I heard al-Suddī Ismāʿīl mention it from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī from ʿAlī with it, and he added at the end: "He said: And ʿAlī (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) used to perform ghusl after washing the deceased." I said: This is a good chain; its narrators are the narrators of Muslim, except for this al-Ḥasan, who is truthful but makes mistakes, as mentioned in "al-Taqrīb." Among the benefits of the ḥadīth: 1 - It is legislated for a Muslim to undertake the burial of his polytheist relative, and this does not contradict his aversion to him for his polytheism. Do you not see that ʿAlī (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) initially refrained from burying his father, justifying it by saying: "He died a polytheist," thinking that burying him in this state might involve him in the prohibited allegiance mentioned in the likes of Allāh's saying: "Do not ally yourselves with a people with whom Allāh is angry" (Sūrah al-Mumtahanah, verse 13). But when the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) reiterated the command to bury him, he hastened to comply, abandoning what initially appeared to him. Likewise, obedience should be such that a person abandons his opinion for the command of his Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). It seems to me that the burial of a child for his polytheist father or mother is the last of what the child possesses of good conduct