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العربية

al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1961

✧ Praying for Death

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أَخْبَرَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَفْصِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ طَهْمَانَ عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ وَهُوَ ابْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ الْبَصْرِيِّ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَا تَدْعُوا بِالْمَوْتِ وَلَا تَتَمَنُّوهُ فَمَنْ كَانَ دَاعِيًا لَا بُدَّ فَلْيَقُلِ اللهُمَّ أَحْيِنِي مَا كَانَتِ الْحَيَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي وَتَوَفَّنِي إِذَا كَانَتِ الْوَفَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Aḥmad b. Ḥafṣ b. ʿAbdullāh from my father
  2. Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān
  3. al-Ḥajjāj / Ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Baṣrī
  4. Yūnus
  5. Thābit
  6. Anas

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Do not pray for death, nor wish for it. Whoever must pray, 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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