al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10873
✧ What do they say at the time of death?
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍ عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ طَلْحَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَنَّ عُمَرَ رَآهُ كَئِيبًا فَقَالَ «يَا أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ مَا لِي أَرَاكَ كَئِيبًا لَعَلَّهُ سَاءَكَ أَمْرُ ابْنِ عَمِّكَ يَعْنِي أَبَا بَكْرٍ ؟» قَالَ
لَا وَأَثْنَى عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَلَكِنْ كَلِمَةٌ سَمِعْتُهَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ لَا يَقُولُهَا عَبْدٌ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ إِلَّا فَرَّجَ اللهُ عَنْهُ كُرْبَتَهُ وَأَشْرَقَ لَوْنُهُ فَمَا مَنَعَنِي أَنْ أَسْأَلَ عَنْهَا إِلَّا الْقُدْرَةُ عَلَيْهَا حَتَّى مَاتَ قَالَ عُمَرُ إِنِّي لَأَعْرِفُهَا قَالَ طَلْحَةُ وَمَا هِيَ؟ قَالَ هَلْ تَعْلَمُ كَلِمَةً أَعْظَمَ مِنْ كَلِمَةٍ عَرَضَهَا عَلَى عَمِّهِ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ؟ قَالَ طَلْحَةُ هِيَ هِيَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Ḥujr
- ʿAlī b. Mushir
- Muṭarrif
- al-Shaʿbī
- Yaḥyá b. Ṭalḥah from his father
- ʿUmar Rāh Kaʾīb
- Yā Abū Muḥammad Mā Lī Arāk Kaʾīb Laʿallah Sāʾak Amr Ibn ʿAmmik / Abū Bakr
✧ No—and he praised Abu Bakr—but a word I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: no servant says it at the time of his death but that Allah relieves his distress and his countenance brightens. Nothing prevented me from asking about it except the ability to do so until he died. 'Umar said: I know it. Talha said: What is it? He said: Do you know any word greater than the word he offered to his uncle at death? Talha said: It is it.
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