مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب الدعاء
Book of Supplication
فيمن كره أن يدعو بالموت (ونهى عنه)
Those who disliked supplicating for death and forbade it
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٣١٨٤٥ - حدثنا (عبد) (١) اللَّه بن إدريس عن إسماعيل عن قيس قال: دخلنا على خباب وقد اكتوى سبع كيات في بطنه، فقال: لولا أن رسول اللَّه ﷺ نهانا أن ندعو بالموت لدعوت به (٢).
Qays said: We went to visit Sayyiduna Khabbab (may Allah be pleased with him) when he was sick, and he had been cauterised in seven places on his stomach. He said: "Had the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) not forbidden us from supplicating for death, I would certainly have supplicated for it."
٣١٨٤٦ - حدثنا أبو معاوية عن الأعمش عن (أبي) (١) ظبيان قال: كنت جالسا عند ابن عمر فسمع (رجلًا) (٢) يتمنى الموت، قال: فرفع إليه ابن عمر بصره فقال: ⦗٣٦٨⦘ (لا تمن) (٣) الموت فإنك ميت، ولكن (سل) (٤) اللَّه العافية (٥).
Abu Zabyan said: I was sitting with Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) when he heard a man wishing for death. The narrator said: Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) raised his eyes to him at once and said: "Do not wish for death, for you will die anyway. Rather, ask Allah for well-being."
٣١٨٤٧ - حدثنا عبيدة بن حميد عن حميد عن أنس قال: قال رسول اللَّه ﷺ: "لا يتمنى أحدكم الموت لضر نزل به في الدنيا" (١).
Sayyiduna Anas (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 a hardship or difficulty that has come upon him in this world."
