Sahih Ibn Hibban 3014

Translation

✧ “When the believer’s soul is taken, the angels of mercy come to it with white silk and say, ‘Come out to the mercy of Allah.’ It comes out with a scent like the finest musk, so that they pass it one to another, smelling it, until they bring it to the gate of heaven. They say, ‘What is this sweet fragrance that has come from the earth?’ And they do not come to any heaven but they say the like of that, until they bring it to the souls of the believers. They rejoice over it more than a family rejoices over its absent member when he returns. They say, ‘What did so-and-so do?’ They say, ‘Leave him until he rests, for he was in the distress of the world.’ He says, ‘Has he died? Did he not die?’ They say, ‘He was taken to his mother, the Pit (al-Hāwiya).’ As for the disbeliever, the angels of punishment come to him with coarse cloth and say, ‘Come out to the wrath of Allah.’ It comes out with the foulest stench of a corpse, and they take it to the gate of the earth.”

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  ورواه معاذ بن هشام عن أبيه عن قتادة عن قسامة بن زهير عن أبي هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وتابعه على هذه الرواية القاسم بن الفضل قال أبي هذا أشبه لأن هشام أحفظ من همام

  machine translationMuʿādh b. Hishām narrated it from his father, from Qatādah, from Qasāmah b. Zuhayr, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, and al-Qāsim b. al-Faḍl corroborated him in this narration. My father said: This is more likely correct, because Hishām is a better memorizer than Hammām. Report a problem

  in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 3019

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Qasāmah b. Zuhayr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 80 AH, and before 100 AH
   قَسَامَةَ بْنِ زُهَيْرٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī

   Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt), though he was accused of belief in free will (qadar)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 153 AH, or 154 AH
   أَبِيثقة ثبت ، وقد رمي بالقدر
   حدثني
5. 5
   Muʿādh b. Hishām

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 200 AH
   مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍصدوق ربما وهم
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Zayd b. Akhzam

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 257 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ أَخْزَمَثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī

   d. 311 AH
   عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ
   أخبرنا
8. 8
   Ibn Ḥibbān

   d. 354 AH
   ابن حبان

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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