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.’ “
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 363:
Narrated As-Sa’ib bin Yazid:
My aunt took me to Allah’s Apostle and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! My sister’s son is sick.” So he
passed his hand over my head and invoked for Allah’s blessing upon me and then performed the
ablution. I drank from the water of his ablution and I stood behind him and looked at his Khatam
(the seal of Prophethood) between his shoulders (and its size was) like the button of a tent.
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 364:
Narrated Abu ‘Aqil:
that his grandfather. ‘Abdullah bin Hisham used to take him from the market or to the market (the
narrator is in doubt) and used to buy grain and when Ibn Az-Zubair and Ibn ‘Umar met him, they
would say to him, “Let us be your partners (in trading) as the Prophet invoked for Allah’s blessing
upon you.” He would then take them as partners and he would Sometimes gain a whole load carried
by an animal which he would send home.
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Volume 8, Book 75, Number 349:
Narrated ‘Ikrima:
Ibn ‘Abbas said, “Preach to the people once a week, and if you won’t, then preach them twice, but if
you want to preach more, then let it be three times (a week only), and do not make the people fed-up
with this Qur’an. If you come to some people who are engaged in a talk, don’t start interrupting their
talk by preaching, lest you should cause them to be bored. You should rather keep quiet, and if they
ask you, then preach to them at the time when they are eager to hear what you say. And avoid the
use of rhymed prose in invocation for I noticed that Allah’s Apostle and his companions always
avoided it.”
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Volume 8, Book 75, Number 350:
Narrated Anas:
Allah’s Apostle said, “When anyone of you appeal to Allah for something, he should ask with de –
termination and should not say, ‘O Allah, if You wish, give me.’, for nobody can force Allah to do
something against His Will.