A man whose forehead sweats at his death

Umarah said: One of the companions of Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) was ill, and people were sitting with him. Sweat was flowing from his forehead, and a man began to wipe the sweat from his forehead, so he struck his hand.

Sufyan said: "They used to consider sweating desirable for a dying person."

Alqamah went to visit a friend of his from the Nakha' tribe. He touched his forehead and found it sweating, and on seeing this he laughed. Some of the people said: "O Abu Shibl! What has made you laugh?" He said: "I laughed at the saying of Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the believer sweats (at the time of the death throes), for he may have some evil deeds, and because of them some hardship comes upon him at the time of death so that it becomes an expiation for those evil deeds; and the soul of the disbeliever and the sinner departs from the corner of his mouth like the breath of a donkey, for he too may have some good deeds, so ease comes upon him at the time of death so that this ease becomes the recompense for those good deeds."