Is the Hadith, "There is no Muslim who passes by the grave of his brother whom he used to know in the worldly life and greets him, except that Allah returns his soul to him so that he may return the greeting," authentic, and what is its تخريج (source and chain of narration)?
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This hadith was narrated by Al-Hafiz Abu Omar ibn Abd al-Barr as a mu'allaq narration from Ibn Abbas, raised (to the Prophet), and some scholars authenticated it.
Ibn Asakir narrated it in Tarikh Dimashq (History of Damascus) and Ibn al-Jawzi in Kitab al-Ilal al-Mutanahiyah (The Book of Exhaustive Defects) from Abu Hurayrah.
Ibn al-Jawzi said: "This hadith is not authentic."
Shaykh Al-Albani mentioned it in Silsilah al-Da'ifah (The Series of Weak Hadiths) (4493) from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah, and he deemed it weak due to Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn Aslam, saying: "Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd is abandoned (matruk)."
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