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Sahih Muslim 2877a

The Command To Think Positively Of Allah At The Time Of Death

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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ زَكَرِيَّاءَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَبْلَ وَفَاتِهِ بِثَلاَثٍ يَقُولُ لاَ يَمُوتَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلاَّ وَهُوَ يُحْسِنُ بِاللَّهِ الظَّنَّ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá
  2. Yaḥyá b. Zakariyyāʾ
  3. al-Aʿmash
  4. Abū Sufyān
  5. Jābir

I heard Allah's Apostle ﷺ as saying three days before his death: None of you should court death but only hoping good from Allah

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  1. Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
    جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 111 and 120 AH
    أَبِي سُفْيَانَصدوق
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
    الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 183, also said 180 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 184 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنُ زَكَرِيَّاءَثقة متقن
    أخبرنا
  5. trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imam (imām).d. 226 AH, or 224 AH, or 225 AH; both of the latter two are mistaken.
    يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة ثبت إمام .
    حدثنا
  6. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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