Sunan Abi Dawud 3116
Prompting The Dying Person
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حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ الْمِسْمَعِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنِي صَالِحُ بْنُ أَبِي عَرِيبٍ عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ:
«مَنْ كَانَ آخِرُ كَلاَمِهِ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ، دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Mismaʿī
- al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Makhlad
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar
- Ṣāliḥ b. Abū ʿArīb
- Kathīr b. Murrah
- Muʿādh b. Jabal
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Whoever's last words are 'There is no god but Allah' will enter Paradise."
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn al-Qaṭṭān
أعله ابن القطان بصالح بن أبي عريب وأنه لا يعرف
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3113
Same hadith, other wordings
- Hisnul Muslim 153من كان آخر كلامه "لا إله إلا الله" دخل الجنة
- Misykatul Mashabih 1621عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ كَانَ آخِرُ كَلَامِهِ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ» رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13777al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18399al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3835Musnad al-Bazzar 2629al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1299al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1842
Narrators
- well-known, among the notable Companionsd. 17 AH, or: 18 AHمُعَاذ بْن جَبَلمشهور ، من أعيان الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); whoever counted him among the Companions was mistaken (wahima)d. between 71 and 80 AHكَثِيرِ بْنِ مُرَّةَثقة ، ووهم من عده في الصحابةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 111 and 120 AHصَالِحُ بْنُ أَبِي عَرِيبٍمقبولحدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadar (free will), and he sometimes erred (wahima)d. 153 AHعَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍصدوق رمي بالقدر ، وربما وهمنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 211 AH, or: 212 AH, or: 213 AH, or: 214 AHالضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍثقة ثبتنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 230 AHمَالِكُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ الْمِسْمَعِيُّثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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