al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5915
✧ Virtues of Amr b. al-Aas
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ الْجَهْمِ ثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْفَرَجِ ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ الْكَلْبِيِّ عَنْ عَوَانَةَ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ قَالَ
كَانَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ يَقُولُ «عَجَبًا لِمَنْ نَزَلَ بِهِ الْمَوْتُ وَعَقْلُهُ مَعَهُ كَيْفَ لَا يَصِفُهُ» فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ بِهِ الْمَوْتُ قَالَ لَهُ ابْنُهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ فَصِفْ لَنَا الْمَوْتَ وَعَقْلُكَ مَعَكَ فَقَالَ «يَا بُنَيَّ الْمَوْتُ أَجَلُّ مِنْ أَنْ يُوصَفَ وَلَكِنِّي سَأَصِفُ لَكَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا أَجِدُنِي كَأَنَّ عَلَى عُنُقِي جِبَالُ رَضْوَى وَأَجِدُنِي كَأَنَّ فِي جَوْفِي شَوْكُ السِّلَاحِ وَأَجِدُنِي كَأَنَّ نَفْسِي تَخْرُجُ مِنْ ثَقْبِ إِبْرَةٍ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Aṣbahānī
- al-Ḥasan b. al-Jahm
- al-Ḥusayn b. al-Faraj
- Muḥammad b. ʿUmar
- Hishām b. al-Kalbī
- ʿAwānah b. al-Ḥakam
✧ Amr b. al-As used to say: 'I wonder at one whom death befalls while his intellect is with him, how he cannot describe it.' When death befell him, his son Abd Allah said to him: 'Describe death for us while your intellect is with you.' He said: 'O my son, death is too great to be described, but I will describe for you something of it. I find myself as if the mountains of Radwa are on my neck, I find myself as if the thorns of weapons are in my inside, and I find myself as if my soul is coming out of the eye of a needle.'
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| al-Dhahabi | Remains Silent | hadithunlocked |
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 42 AHعَمْرُو بْن الْعَاص بْن وَائِل السَّهْمِيّصحابيفي حكم العنعنة
- عنd. 158 AH
- هِشَامِ بْنِ الْكَلْبِيِّعن
- abandoned (matrūk)d. 207 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُمَرَمتروكحدثنا
- حدثناd. 231 AH
- حدثناd. 290 AH
- حدثناd. 344 AH
- d. 403 AH
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.