Sunan an-Nasai

Hadith 1820

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Wishing For Death

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Darussalam · Volume 3

21. The Book OfFunerals

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الحديث: 1819 ¦ الجزء: 4 ¦ الصفحة: 2

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1820. It was narrated from Abû 'Ubaid the freed slave of 'Abdur-Rahmân bin 'Awf that he heard Abû Hurairah say: "The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: 'None of you should wish for death. Either he is a doer of good, so if he lives he will do more good, or he is a doer of evil but perhaps he will give up his evil ways.'" (Sahîh)

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1819 - أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي الزُّبَيْدِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي الزُّهْرِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ، مَوْلَى عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا يَتَمَنَّيَنَّ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَوْتَ، إِمَّا مُحْسِنًا فَلَعَلَّهُ أَنْ يَعِيشَ يَزْدَادُ خَيْرًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَهُ، وَإِمَّا مُسِيئًا فَلَعَلَّهُ أَنْ يَسْتَعْتِبَ»

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Death is under Allâh's Command. Death does not get postponed or expedited by someone asking or trying to stop it. Then what is the benefit of asking such a thing, which cannot be achieved by supplicating. In reality, the time of death is appointed or fixed.