Abi Bakkar Al-Hakam bin Farookh said: “Abu Al-Malih led us
in offering the funeral prayer and we thought that he had said the Takbir, but he turned to us and said: ‘Make
your rows straight and intercede properly.’ Abu Al-Malih said: Abdullah — meaning Ibn Salit — urated to me that one of the otbers of the believers, Maimianah e wife of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم said: The prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم told me: ‘There is no eceased person for whom a group of people offers the funeral prayer, ut their intercession for him will be cepted.’ I asked Abu Al-MalIl , the (number of that) group the said: ‘Forty.” (Hasan)