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190. Talhah bin Khirāsh said: "I heard Jābir bin 'Abdullāh say: 'When 'Abdullāh bin 'Amr bin (Harām) was killed on the Day of Uhud, the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ met me, and said: "O Jābir, shall I not tell you what Allāh has said to your father?" Yahya said in his Hadith: "And he said: 'O Jābir, why do I see you broken-hearted?' I (Jābir) said: 'O Messenger of Allāh, my father has been martyred and he has left behind dependents and debts.' He said: 'Shall I not give you the glad tidings of that with which Allāh met your father?' I said: 'Yes, O Messenger of Allāh.' He said: 'Allāh never spoke to anyone except from behind a screen, but He spoke to your father
directly, and He said: "O My slave! Ask something from Me and I shall give it to you." He said: "O Lord, bring me back to life so that I may be killed in Your cause a second time." The Lord, Glorified is He, said: "I have already decreed that they will not return to life." He said: "My Lord, then convey (this news) to those whom I have left behind." Allâh said: "Think not of those as dead who are killed in the way of Allâh. Nay, they are alive, with their Lord, and they have provision."[1] (Hasan)
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One should not say to a bereaved person anything that might increases his sorrow and give him pain.
The Hadith confirms Allâh's attribute of Speech.
After a man dies he enters the next world where it will be possible that Allâh will bless him with special attributes.
The Hadith confirms the reality of a higher rank for the martyrs.
It is a proof of the high status of 'Abdullah bin Harâm, that Allâh Himself asked him to decide and say what he wanted.
All links of men with this world are severed after death, and they can never go back to the world they have left behind. This categorical statement cuts at the root of the people's belief in the transmigration of souls.
