Volume 8, Book 75, Number 355:
Narrated Anas:
My mother said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Please invoke Allah on behalf of your servant.” He said, “O Al –
lah! Increase his wealth and children, and bestow Your Blessing on whatever You give him.” a time
of distress.
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 356:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
The Prophet used to invoke Allah at the time of distress, saying, “La ilaha illal-lahu al-‘Azim, al-
Halim, La ilaha illal-lahu Rabbu-s-samawati wal-ard wa Rabbu-l-arsh il-azim,”
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 357:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
Allah’s Apostle used to say at a time of distress, “La ilaha illal-lahu Rabbul-l-‘arsh il-‘azim, La ilaha
illallahu Rabbu-s-samawati wa Rabbu-l-ard, Rabbu-l-‘arsh-il-Karim.”
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 358:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle used to seek refuge with Allah from the difficult moment of a calamity and from
being overtaken by destruction and from being destined to an evil end, and from the malicious joy of
enemies. Sufyan said, “This narration contained three items only, but I added one. I do not know
which one that was.”
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 359:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
When Allah’s Apostle was healthy, he used to say, “No prophet dies till he is shown his place in
Paradise, and then he is given the option (to live or die).” So when death approached him(during his
illness), and while his head was on my thigh, he became unconscious for a while, and when he re –
covered, he fixed his eyes on the ceiling and said, “O Allah! (Let me join) the Highest Companions
(see Qur’an 4:69),” I said, “So, he does not choose us.” Then I realized that it was the application of the
statement he used to relate to us when he was healthy. So that was his last utterance (before he died),
i.e. “O Allah! (Let me join) the Highest Companions.”
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Volume 8, Book 75, Number 360:
Narrated Qais:
I came to Khabbab who had been branded with seven brands(1) and he said, “Had Allah’s Apostle
not forbidden us to invoke (Allah) for death, I would have invoked (Allah) for it.”
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 361:
Narrated Qais:
I came to Khabbab who had been branded with seven brands over his abdomen, and I heard him
saying, “If the Prophet: had not forbidden us to invoke (Allah) for death, I would have invoked Allah
for it.”
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 362:
Narrated Anas:
Allah’s Apostle said,” None of you should long for death because of a calamity that had befallen
him, and if he cannot, but long for death, then he should say, ‘O Allah! Let me live as long as life is
better for me, and take my life if death is better for me.’ “