Remembrance 1 from Chapter 112
Allāhumma-ghfir lī wa lah, wa a‘qibnī minhu ‘uqbā ḥasanah.
WE RELATE FROM the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim from Umm Salamah
, who reported: “The Messenger of Allah
said: ‘If you are with a sick person or a person in the agony of death then speak [only] good, for the angels say Āmīn to what you say.’ When Abū Salamah
passed away I came to the Messenger of Allah
and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, Abū Salamah has passed away.’ He said: ‘Say: O Allah, forgive me and him, and give me good after him.’ I say that Allah gave me better than him: Muḥammad
.” [1].Such is the version in the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim. At-Tirmidhī’s version has: “when you visit the sick or the dead. . .”, there being doubt [from the narrator]. The Sunan of Abū Dāwūd and others read “the dead” without ambiguity, unequivocally.