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Sahih al-Bukhari 5671

The patient's wish for death

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حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتٌ الْبُنَانِيُّ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ؓ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ:

«لاَ يَتَمَنَّيَنَّ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَوْتَ مِنْ ضُرٍّ أَصَابَهُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ لاَ بُدَّ فَاعِلاً فَلْيَقُلِ: اللَّهُمَّ أَحْيِنِي مَا كَانَتِ الْحَيَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي، وَتَوَفَّنِي إِذَا كَانَتِ الْوَفَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي».

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ādam
  2. Shuʿbah
  3. Thābit al-Bunānī
  4. Anas b. Mālik
  5. al-Nabī ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said: "None of you should wish for death because of some harm that has befallen him. But if he must do so, then let him say: O Allah, keep me alive so long as life is better for me, and cause me to die when death is better for me."

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 1600وَعَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " لَا يَتَمَنَّيَنَّ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَوْتَ مِنْ ضُرٍّ أَصَابَهُ فَإِنْ كَانَ لابد فَاعِلًا فَلْيَقُلِ: اللَّهُمَّ أَحْيِنِي مَا كَانَتِ الْحَيَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي وَتَ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
    أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH
    ثَابِتٌ الْبُنَانِيُّثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
    حدثنا
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, also said: 221 AH
    آدَمُثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  5. a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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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)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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