Sahih al-Bukhari 6348

Translation

When Messenger of Allah ﷺ was healthy, he used to say, "No prophet dies till he is shown his place in Paradise, and then he is given the option (to live or die)." So when death approached him(during his illness), and while his head was on my thigh, he became unconscious for a while, and when he recovered, he fixed his eyes on the ceiling and said, "O Allah! (Let me join) the Highest Companions (see Qur'an 4:69)," I said, "So, he does not choose us." Then I realized that it was the application of the statement he used to relate to us when he was healthy. So that was his last utterance (before he died), i.e. "O Allah! (Let me join) the Highest Companions."

Notes

• قُلْتُ إِذًا لاَ يَخْتَارُنَا، وَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّهُ الْحَدِيثُ الَّذِي كَانَ يُحَدِّثُنَا، وَهْوَ صَحِيحٌ. قَالَتْ فَكَانَتْ تِلْكَ آخِرَ كَلِمَةٍ تَكَلَّمَ بِهَا " اللَّهُمَّ الرَّفِيقَ الأَعْلَى

  machine translationI said, "Then he will not choose us." And I knew that it was the hadith that he used to narrate to us, and he was healthy. She said: And that was the last word he spoke: "O Allah, the Highest Companion (al-Rafīq al-Aʿlā)." Report a problem

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• Shahih al-Bukhari 4463كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَقُولُ وَهْوَ صَحِيحٌ إِنَّهُ لَمْ يُقْبَضْ نَبِيٌّ حَتَّى يَرَى مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ ثُمَّ يُخَيَّرَ فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ بِهِ وَرَأْسُهُ عَلَى فَخِذِي غُشِيَ عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ أَفَاقَ فَأَشْخَصَ بَصَرَهُ إِلَى سَقْفِ الْ
• Misykatul Mashabih 5964عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ وَهُوَ صَحِيح: «لَنْ يُقْبَضَ نَبِيٌّ قَطُّ حَتَّى يُرَى مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ ثُمَّ يُخَيَّرَ». قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ: فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ بِهِ ورأسُه على
• Shahih al-Bukhari 6509كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ وَهْوَ صَحِيحٌ إِنَّهُ لَمْ يُقْبَضْ نَبِيٌّ قَطُّ حَتَّى يَرَى مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ ثُمَّ يُخَيَّرُ فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ بِهِ وَرَأْسُهُ عَلَى فَخِذِي غُشِيَ عَلَيْهِ سَاعَةً ثُمَّ أَفَاقَ فَأَشْخَصَ بَصَرَ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2444aMusnad Ahmad 24763Sahih Ibn Hibban 6618Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 24034Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 29946Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30102

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   أن
2. 2
   ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
   وَعُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِثقة فقيه مشهور
   أخبرني
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   ʿUqayl

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 144 AH
   عُقَيْلٌثقة ثبت
   حدثني
5. 5
   al-Layth b. Saʿd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
   اللَّيْثُثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
   حدثني
6. 6
   Saʿīd b. ʿUfayr

   truthful (ṣadūq), knowledgeable in genealogies and other matters (ʿālim bi-l-ansāb wa-ghayrihā)d. 226 AH
   سَعِيدُ بْنُ عُفَيْرٍصدوق ، عالم بالأنساب وغيرها
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Bukhārī

   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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