Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Zadhan reports from Alim that we were with him on the roof, and a companion was also with him. During the days of the plague, funeral processions began to pass by us, so he said: Did not the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say that none of you should wish for death, for death causes deeds to cease, and a person is not returned so that he may please Allah? Then he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: You will hasten to seek death because of six things: because of the rule of fools, the increase of the king’s special soldiers, the selling of judgments, the cheapening of blood, and because of young boys who make the Qur’an into flutes, whom people will put forward in prayer so that they may listen to the Qur’an in a singing manner, even though they are the least in understanding among them.