Sahih Muslim 2877c
The Command To Think Positively Of Allah At The Time Of Death
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وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو دَاوُدَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ مَعْبَدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ عَارِمٌ حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَاصِلٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ بِثَلاَثَةِ أَيَّامٍ يَقُولُ لاَ يَمُوتَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلاَّ وَهُوَ يُحْسِنُ الظَّنَّ بِاللَّهِ ﷻ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Dāwud Sulaymān b. Maʿbad
- Abū al-Nuʿmān ʿĀrim
- Mahdī b. Maymūn
- Wāṣil
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī
I heard Messenger of Allah ﷺ say three days before his death: None of you should die but hoping only good from Allah, the Exalted and Glorious.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1605وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ بِثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ يَقُولُ: «لَا يَمُوتَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَّا وَهُوَ يُحْسِنُ الظَّنَّ بِاللَّه». رَوَاهُ مُسلم
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2877bSunan Ibn Majah 4167Musnad Ahmad 14125Musnad Ahmad 14580al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6662
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), devout (ʿābid)d. between 121 and 130 AHوَاصِلٌصدوق عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during al-Mahdī's caliphate, or: 171 AH, or: 172 AHمَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt); his memory changed at the end of his life (taghayyara fī ākhir ʿumrihi)d. 224, also said: 223أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ عَارِمٌثقة ثبت ، تغير في آخر عمرهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a hadith specialist (ṣāḥib ḥadīth)d. 257 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ مَعْبَدٍثقة , صاحب حديثحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
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