Ali ibn Shammakh said: I was present with Marwan who asked Abu Hurairah: Did you hear how the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to pray over the dead? He said: Even with the words that you said. (The narrator said: They exchanged hot words between them before that. ) Abu Hurairah said: O Allah, Thou art its Lord. Thou didst create it, Thou didst guide it to Islam, Thou hast taken its spirit, and Thou knowest best its inner nature and outer aspect. We have come as intercessors, so forgive him. Abu Dawud said: Shubah made a mistake in mentioning the name of Ali bin Shammakh. He said in his version: Uthman bin Shammas. Abu Dawud said: I heard Ahmad bin Ibrahim al-Mawsili say that Ahmad bin Hanbal said: In every meeting which I attended with Hammad bin Zaid he forbade to narrate this traditions from Abd al-Warith and Jafar bin Sulaiman.