Dalil

al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1959

✧ Desire for death

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أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ لَا يَتَمَنَّيَنَّ أَحَدٌ الْمَوْتَ لِضُرٍّ نَزَلَ بِهِ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَلَكِنْ لِيَقُلِ اللهُمَّ أَحْيِنِي مَا كَانَتِ الْحَيَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي وَتَوَفَّنِي إِذَا كَانَتِ الْوَفَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
  2. Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
  3. Ḥumayd
  4. Anas

✧ The Prophet ﷺ said: “Let none of you wish for death because of some harm that has befallen him in this world. But let him say: O Allah, keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and take me when death is better for me.”

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