Musnad Ahmad 21079

Translation

✧ I came to Khabbāb to visit him, and he had cauterized himself seven times in his belly. I heard him say: Were it not that the Messenger of God ﷺ forbade us to pray for death, I would have prayed for it.

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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 970Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2483

Narrators

1. 1
   Khabbāb b. al-Aratt al-Tamīmī

   among the first to embrace Islam, and he was tortured for the sake of Allah, and he was present at Badrd. 37 AH, also said: 19 AH, also said: 39 AH
   خَبَّاب بْن الأَرَتّ التَّمِيمِيّمن السابقين إلى الإسلام ، وكان يعذب في الله ، وشهد بدرا
   سمعت
2. 2
   Qays b. Abī Ḥāzim

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 84 AH, or: 86 AH, or: 97 AH, or: 98 AH
   قَيْسٌثقة
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Ismāʿīl b. Abī Khālid

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 136 AH, or 145 AH, or 146 AH, or 148 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلَثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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