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
- Musaddad
- Yaḥyá
- Ismāʿīl
- 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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Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 970Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2483Musnad Ahmad 21066al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 3633al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6659al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1962
Narrators
- 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 AHخَبَّاب بْن الأَرَتّ التَّمِيمِيّمن السابقين إلى الإسلام ، وكان يعذب في الله ، وشهد بدراقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 84 AH, or: 86 AH, or: 97 AH, or: 98 AHقَيْسٍثقةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 136 AH, or 145 AH, or 146 AH, or 148 AHإِسْمَاعِيلَثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
تأويل مختلف الحديث
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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