al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10871
✧ What do they say at the time of death?
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أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ مُوسَى خَتٌّ الْبَلْخِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُجَالِدٌ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ
سَمِعْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ يَقُولُ لِطَلْحَةَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ مَا لِي أَرَاكَ شَعِثًا أَوْ أَغْبَرَ رَثًّا مُنْذُ تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَعَلَّكَ إِنَّمَا بِكَ يَا طَلْحَةُ إِمَارَةُ ابْنِ عَمِّكَ؟ قَالَ مَعَاذَ اللهِ إِنِّي لَأَجْدَرُكُمْ أَنْ لَا أَفْعَلَ ذَلِكَ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِنِّي لَأَعْلَمُ كَلِمَةً لَا يَقُولُهَا رَجُلٌ يَحْضُرُهُ الْمَوْتُ إِلَّا وَجَدَ رُوحَهُ لَهَا رَوْحًا حِينَ تَخْرُجُ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ وَكَانَتْ لَهُ نُورًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ» فَلَمْ أَسْأَلْ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْهَا وَلَمْ يُخْبِرْنِي بِهَا فَذَاكَ الَّذِي دَخَلَنِي فَقَالَ عُمَرُ فَأَنَا أَعْلَمُهَا قَالَ فَلِلَّهِ الْحَمْدُ فَمَا هِيَ؟ قَالَ هِيَ الَّتِي قَالَهَا لِعَمِّهِ «لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ» قَالَ طَلْحَةُ صَدَقْتَ
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Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Mūsá Khat al-Balkhī
- ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr
- Mujālid
- al-Shaʿbī
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
✧ I heard 'Umar b. al-Khattab say to Talha b. 'Ubayd Allah: Why do I see you disheveled, dust-colored and worn out since the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died? Perhaps, Talha, you are distressed by the leadership of your cousin? He said: God forbid! I am the most deserving of you not to do that. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'I know a word which no man says when death is present to him but that his soul finds ease in it when it leaves his body and it becomes a light for him on the Day of Resurrection.' I did not ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about it, nor did he tell it to me. That is what has entered me. 'Umar said: I know it. He said: Praise be to God; what is it? He said: It is the word he said to his uncle: 'There is no god but Allah.' Talha said: You have spoken the truth.
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