Nasai

1933. Commentary: The chapter uses the word "kafir" (disbeliever), while the hadith uses "fajir" (wicked one); this indicates that by "fajir" is meant a disbeliever, or someone like the disbelievers. And Allah knows best.

Hadith Commentary:

The believing servant indeed finds comfort.
May Allah make us among them.
Ameen.

Hadith Commentary:
In light of this hadith, every dying person inevitably faces one of two conditions: either he himself attains relief, or others attain relief from him.
In either case, at the time of death, he may experience severity or he may be shown leniency.
In the first situation, he is confronted with the agonies of death.
The intensity of death is not related to a person’s piety or wickedness; rather, if the person is among the people of taqwa (God-consciousness), his ranks are elevated, and if the believer is not among the people of taqwa, then it serves as expiation for his misdeeds.
Then, he is delivered from the pains and hardships of the world.
Despite the severity of death, the believer receives such glad tidings from the angels that, in comparison, the severity of death carries no weight; it is as if the believer does not even feel this kind of hardship.
(Fath al-Bari: 11/444)

Hadith Commentary:
People find relief in such a way that they are freed from his oppression and evils—the world is cleansed of loss.
A believer, after being relieved from the hardships of the world, enters Paradise.

Hadith Commentary: Benefits and Issues: All of creation is troubled by the hand and tongue of an evil and wicked person. The misfortune resulting from his evil deeds and actions also becomes a cause of pain and suffering for creation. He uses his hand and tongue against everything. Because of his sins, rainfall is withheld.

1932. Commentary:

➊ “Believing person”: Here, by “believer” is meant a pious person who does not harm people nor oppress animals. Along with this, he observes the rights of Allah. If he faces hardship or the like in these matters in this world, he bears it with patience. In matters of livelihood in this world, he has to toil and labor. Illnesses and worries in this world—“the sorrows and griefs of the world”—all fall under this.

➋ “Wicked person”: By this is not meant only the disbeliever, but also those individuals who oppress people, harm animals, lay waste to settlements, and at the same time pay no heed to the rights of Allah. They rush headlong into immorality and wickedness, to the extent that because of their immorality and wickedness, rain is withheld and famine descends due to their evil influence. Innocent animals and trees lose their lives. However, those people from whom sins do occur (for every human is a sinner), but they turn to Allah, seek forgiveness—such people are not included under “wicked” (fajir) and “evil” (bakar), because forgiveness and repentance erase sins. Rather, by the blessing of repentance, Allah bestows mercy. The statement of Allah, the Exalted, is: (Seek forgiveness from your Lord; indeed, He is ever Forgiving. He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers) (: Nuh 10–11, 71:10–11). Therefore, a person who repents and seeks forgiveness, no matter how sinful he may be, becomes a cause of mercy for people, cities, animals, and trees.

Hadith Authentication:
[وأخرجه البخاري 6512، ومسلم 950، من حديث مالك به]

Jurisprudential Understanding
➊ For the believer, the world is not a place of comfort and ease, but rather a prison, and death is a message of relief for him.
➋ The world is a house of sorrows and tribulations, the remedy for which is faith in Allah, His Messenger, and the Hereafter. This faith instills in a person’s heart and mind the spirit of patience, endurance, and continuous obedience to the Qur’an and Hadith.
➌ The opponents of the Book and Sunnah, whether they are disbelievers or the openly sinful and wicked, have set ablaze the marketplace of oppression and violence, immorality and wickedness, killing and fighting, and disobedience in this world.
➍ Every Muslim is a well-wisher for another Muslim.
➎ Every Muslim should always strive to bring comfort and ease to other Muslims and never cause anyone any harm.
➏ Death is a blessing for the believer, through which the servant of Allah is delivered from the tribulations of the world and journeys toward the comfort of the Hereafter, whereas through the death of a disbeliever or an open sinner, some people in the world find relief from his oppression and tyranny.
➐ Not only the earth, but even the trees and animals are distressed by the disobedient servants of Allah, and they find relief at his death.