al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 953
✧ States of the Dying Person
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ أَبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، حَدَّثَنَا فَرَجُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ، قَالَ:
مَرِضَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ ؓ فَأَتَاهُ أَصْحَابُهُ يَعُودُونَهُ، فَقَالَ: أَجْلِسُونِي، فَأَجْلَسُوهُ فَقَالَ: كَلِمَةٌ سَمِعْتُهَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: مَنْ كَانَ آخِرُ كَلَامِهِ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ، وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، هَدَمَتْ مَا كَانَ قَبْلَهَا مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ وَالْخَطَايَا، فَلَقِّنُوهَا مَوْتَاكُمْ، قَالُوا: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، فَكَيْفَ هِيَ لِلْأَحْيَاءِ ؟ قَالَ: أَهْدَمُ وَأَهْدَمُ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Isḥāq b. Abū Isrāʾīl
- Faraj b. Faḍālah
- al-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Ḥārith
- Makḥūl
✧ Mu'adh b. Jabal ؓ fell ill, and his companions came to visit him. He said: Sit me up. So they sat him up. Then he said: A word I heard from the Messenger of God ﷺ: "Whoever's last words at death are 'There is no god but God alone, with no partner,' it demolishes the sins and errors that came before it. So prompt your dying ones with it." They said: O Abu 'Abd al-Rahman, how is it for the living? He said: It demolishes even more, even more.
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 1444Sunan Ibn Majah 1445Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 10960Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 10962Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 10965Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 10968
Narrators
- well-known, among the notable Companionsd. 17 AH, or: 18 AHمُعَاذ بْن جَبَلمشهور ، من أعيان الصحابةقال
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), frequently narrating with omission of the Companion (kathīr al-irsāl), well-known (mashhūr)d. 112 AH, or: 113 AH, or: 114 AH, or: 116 AH, Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus said: it is said 118 AHمَكْحُولٍثقة فقيه ، كثير الإرسال ، مشهورعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), juristd. 136 AHالْعَلَاءِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِصدوق فقيهعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 176 AH, or 177 AHفَرَجُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَضعيفحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), criticized for suspending judgement (waqf) on the Qurʾānd. 245 AH, or 246 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ أَبِي إِسْرَائِيلَصدوق ، تكلم فيه لوقفه في القرآنحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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