al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6663
✧ The Sick Person Should Have Good Thoughts of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and Hope for His Mercy
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، ثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الصَّفَّارُ إِمْلَاءً، ثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْقَاضِي، ثَنَا عَارِمٌ، ثَنَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ، ثَنَا وَاصِلٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ:
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ بِثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ، يَقُولُ: لَا يَمُوتَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَّا وَهُوَ حَسَنُ الظَّنِّ بِاللهِ - عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ
- Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ṣaffār Imlāʾ
- Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq al-Qāḍī
- ʿĀrim
- Mahdī b. Maymūn
- Wāṣil a freed slave of Abū ʿUyaynah
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
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I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, three days before his death, saying: "None of you should die except while thinking well of Allah, Mighty and Majestic."
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), devout (ʿābid)d. between 121 and 130 AHوَاصِلٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي عُيَيْنَةَصدوق عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during al-Mahdī's caliphate, or: 171 AH, or: 172 AHمَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt); his memory changed at the end of his life (taghayyara fī ākhir ʿumrihi)d. 224, also said: 223عَارِمٌثقة ثبت ، تغير في آخر عمرهحدثنا
- d. the end of 282 AH or the beginning of 283 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْقَاضِيحدثنا
- أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الصَّفَّارُثنا إملاء
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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