Chapter 112

Remembrance 1 from Chapter 112

What to say near the deceased

Arabic
Arabic text from the source edition
Romanisation

Allāhumma-ghfir lī wa lah, wa a‘qibnī minhu ‘uqbā ḥasanah.

Context

WE RELATE FROM the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim from Umm Salamah Honorific symbol, who reported: “The Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol 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 Honorific symbol passed away I came to the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol 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 Honorific symbol.” [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.

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References
[1] Muslim (919), at-Tirmidhī (977), Abū Dāwūd (3115).