Those who used to say in their supplication: Keep me alive as long as life is good for me

Qays bin Ubad said: Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) led a prayer, and the people seemed to disapprove of his prayer. He was then asked about it, and he said: "Did I not perform the bowing and prostration completely?" The people said: "Indeed you did." He said: "I supplicated Allah with a supplication that I heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): 'O Allah, by Your knowledge of the unseen and by Your power over Your creation, keep me alive as long as You know that life is better for me, and give me death when You know that death is better for me. O Allah, I ask You for the word of sincerity in anger and in contentment, for moderation in wealth and in poverty, and for fear of You openly and in secret. I ask You for contentment with destiny. I ask You for a blessing that does not end and a coolness of the eye that is not cut off, for a pleasant life after death, for the delight of beholding Your radiant Face, and for longing to meet You. And I seek refuge in You from harm that befalls in a state of hardship and from a trial that leads astray. O Allah, adorn us with the adornment of faith, and make us guides who are themselves rightly guided.'"

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "None of you should wish for death because of some calamity of this world. Rather, he should supplicate thus: 'O Allah, keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and give me death when death is better for me.'"

Malik bin al-Harith said that Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) used to supplicate thus: "O Allah, I ask You by Your knowledge of the unseen and by Your power over creation to keep me alive as long as You know that life is better for me, and to give me death when You know that death is better for me. O Allah, I ask You for fear of You openly and in secret, I ask You for moderation in wealth and in poverty, and I ask You for balance in anger and in contentment. O Allah, make meeting You beloved to me, and also longing to meet You, without any trial that leads astray and without any state of hardship that harms."