al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7475
✧ The patient desires death.
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ صُهَيْبٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا يَتَمَنَّيَنَّ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَوْتَ لِضُرٍّ نَزَلَ بِهِ فَإِنْ كَانَ لَا بُدَّ مُتَمَنِّيًا فَلْيَقُلْ «اللهُمَّ أَحْيِنِي مَا كَانَتِ الْحَيَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي وَتَوَفَّنِي إِذَا كَانَتِ الْوَفَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي»
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Ḥujr
- Ismāʿīl
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Ṣuhayb
- Anas b. Mālik
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ said: “None of you should wish for death because of some harm that has befallen him. If he must be a wisher, then let him say: ‘O God, keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and take me when death is better for me.’”
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