Silsilah as-Sahihah 1695 — Greatest loss for the Ummah

Ata bin Abi Rabah, narrating mursal, says: The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When any person is afflicted with a calamity, he should remember the calamity of my (death), so that (the grief of) his own calamity may become lighter, because (for my Ummah) the greatest calamity is my (separation)."