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Sahih al-Bukhari 6349

The invocation for death or life

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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ قَيْسٍ قَالَ

أَتَيْتُ خَبَّابًا وَقَدِ اكْتَوَى سَبْعًا قَالَ لَوْلاَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ نَهَانَا أَنْ نَدْعُوَ بِالْمَوْتِ لَدَعَوْتُ بِهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Musaddad
  2. Yaḥyá
  3. Ismāʿīl
  4. Qays

I came to Khabbab who had been branded with seven brands(1) and he said, "Had Messenger of Allah ﷺ not forbidden us to invoke (Allah) for death, I would have invoked (Allah) for it."

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  1. 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
    قال
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 84 AH, or: 86 AH, or: 97 AH, or: 98 AH
    قَيْسٍثقة
    عن
  3. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 136 AH, or 145 AH, or 146 AH, or 148 AH
    إِسْمَاعِيلَثقة ثبت
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
    يَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AH
    مُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  6. 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

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

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