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Prompting The Dying Person

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Darussalam · Volume 3

BOOK 20. THE BOOKOF FUNERALS

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الحديث: 3117 ¦ الجزء: 3 ¦ الصفحة: 190

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3117. It was narrated that Abū Sa'eed Al-Khudrī said: “The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: ‘Prompt your dying ones to say Lā ilāha illallāh.’” (Ṣaḥīḥ)

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3117 - حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرٌ، حَدَّثَنَا عُمَارَةُ بْنُ غَزِيَّةَ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُمَارَةَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيَّ، يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَقِّنُوا مَوْتَاكُمْ قَوْلَ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ»

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The Sunnah of Talqīn (instruction or exhortation to utter) is to prompt the dying person to say Lā Ilāha Illallāh.