Chapter 110
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 110
What to say to someone who has lost hope of surviving
Arabic
Romanisation
Allāhumma a‘innī ‘alā ghamarāti-l-mawti wa sakarāti-l-mawt.
Context
WE RELATE FROM the book of at-Tirmidhī and the Sunan of Ibn Mājah from ‘Ā’ishah who said: “I saw the Messenger of Allah 
at the time of his death. He had with him a cup of water, and he put his hand into the cup and then wiped his face with the water saying: ‘O Allah, help me with the hardships and pangs of death.’” [1].
References
[1] At-Tirmidhī (978), Ibn Mājah (1623), and an-Nasā’ī (1093) in ‘Amal al-yawm wa al-laylah.