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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3722

✧ Remembering death and shortening hopes

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قَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ غَيْلَانَ بْنِ بِشْرٍ، عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ ؓ قَالَ:

قِيلَ لَهُ: مَا تُحِبُّ لِمَنْ تُحِبُّ ؟ قَالَ: الْمَوْتَ، قَالَ: فَإِنْ لَمْ يَمُتْ ؟ قَالَ: يَقِلُّ مَالُهُ وَوَلَدُهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Musaddad
  2. Abū Muʿāwiyah
  3. al-Aʿmash
  4. Ghaylān b. Bishr
  5. Yaʿlá b. al-Walīd
  6. Abū al-Dardāʾ

✧ He was asked: What do you wish for the one you love? He said: Death. He was asked: And if he does not die? He said: That his wealth and children become few.

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