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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1822

Praying For Death

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أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَفْصِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ طَهْمَانَ عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ وَهُوَ الْبَصْرِيُّ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

لاَ تَدْعُوا بِالْمَوْتِ وَلاَ تَتَمَنَّوْهُ فَمَنْ كَانَ دَاعِيًا لاَ بُدَّ فَلْيَقُلِ اللَّهُمَّ أَحْيِنِي مَا كَانَتِ الْحَيَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي وَتَوَفَّنِي إِذَا كَانَتِ الْوَفَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Aḥmad b. Ḥafṣ b. ʿAbdullāh
  2. my father
  3. Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān
  4. al-Ḥajjāj / al-Baṣrī
  5. Yūnus
  6. Thābit
  7. Anas
  8. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Do not pray for death or wish for it. Whoever insists on praying for it let him say: Allahumma ahini ma kanatil-hayatu khairanli wa tawaffani idha kanatil-wafatu khairanli (O Allah, keep me alive so long as life is good for me, and cause me to die when death is good for me.)"'

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahih Isnaadfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSound Chainin صحيح النسائي, p. 1821fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 970Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2483Musnad Ahmad 21066al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 3633al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6659al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1962

Narrators

  1. Anas b. Mālik
    a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
    أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. Thābit al-Bunānī
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH
    ثَابِتٍثقة عابد
    عن
  3. Yūnus
    Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), virtuous, scrupulous.d. 138 AH, or 139 AH, or 140 AH
    يُونُسَثقة ثبت فاضل ورع
    عن
  4. Ḥajjāj b. Ḥajjāj
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 131 AH
    الْحَجَّاجِ وَهُوَ الْبَصْرِيُّثقة
    عن
  5. Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān
    Trustworthy (thiqah) who narrates unusual reports (yughrib); he was criticized for Irjāʾ (Murjiʾism), and it is said that he retracted itd. 158 AH, or 160 AH, or 163 AH, or 168 AH
    إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ طَهْمَانَثقة يغرب ، تكلم فيه للإرجاء ، ويقال : رجع عنه
    حدثني
  6. Abī
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 209 AH
    أَبِيصدوق
    حدثني
  7. Aḥmad b. Ḥafṣ
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 258 AH, also said: 255 AH, also said: 260 AH
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَفْصِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِصدوق
    أخبرنا
  8. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

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