Al-Kafi · Hadith 2

The Book on Dying People · Things that Believers and Unbelievers See in Dying Conditions · Volume 3, book 3, chapter 13, Hadith 2

Original Arabic text

2ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ عُمَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) إِذَا حِيلَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ الْكَلاَمِ أَتَاهُ رَسُولُ الله (صلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) وَمَنْ شَاءَ الله فَجَلَسَ رَسُولُ الله (صلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَالآخَرُ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ فَيَقُولُ لَهُ رَسُولُ الله (صلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) أَمَّا مَا كُنْتَ تَرْجُو فَهُوَ ذَا أَمَامَكَ وَأَمَّا مَا كُنْتَ تَخَافُ مِنْهُ فَقَدْ أَمِنْتَ مِنْهُ ثُمَّ يُفْتَحُ لَهُ بَابٌ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ فَيَقُولُ هَذَا مَنْزِلُكَ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ فَإِنْ شِئْتَ رَدَدْنَاكَ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا وَلَكَ فِيهَا ذَهَبٌ وَفِضَّةٌ فَيَقُولُ لاَ حَاجَةَ لِي فِي الدُّنْيَا فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يَبْيَضُّ لَوْنُهُ وَيَرْشَحُ جَبِينُهُ وَتَقَلَّصُ شَفَتَاهُ وَتَنْتَشِرُ مَنْخِرَاهُ وَتَدْمَعُ عَيْنُهُ الْيُسْرَى فَأَيَّ هَذِهِ الْعَلاَمَاتِ رَأَيْتَ فَاكْتَفِ بِهَا فَإِذَا خَرَجَتِ النَّفْسُ مِنَ الْجَسَدِ فَيُعْرَضُ عَلَيْهَا كَمَا عُرِضَ عَلَيْهِ وَهِيَ فِي الْجَسَدِ فَتَخْتَارُ الآخِرَةَ فَتُغَسِّلُهُ فِيمَنْ يُغَسِّلُهُ وَتُقَلِّبُهُ فِيمَنْ يُقَلِّبُهُ فَإِذَا أُدْرِجَ فِي أَكْفَانِهِ وَوُضِعَ عَلَى سَرِيرِهِ خَرَجَتْ رُوحُهُ تَمْشِي بَيْنَ أَيْدِي الْقَوْمِ قُدُماً وَتَلْقَاهُ أَرْوَاحُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يُسَلِّمُونَ عَلَيْهِ وَيُبَشِّرُونَهُ بِمَا أَعَدَّ الله لَهُ جَلَّ ثَنَاؤُهُ مِنَ النَّعِيمِ فَإِذَا وُضِعَ فِي قَبْرِهِ رُدَّ إِلَيْهِ الرُّوحُ إِلَى وَرِكَيْهِ ثُمَّ يُسْأَلُ عَمَّا يَعْلَمُ فَإِذَا جَاءَ بِمَا يَعْلَمُ فُتِحَ لَهُ ذَلِكَ الْبَابُ الَّذِي أَرَاهُ رَسُولُ الله (صلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) فَيَدْخُلُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ نُورِهَا وَضَوْئِهَا وَبَرْدِهَا وَطِيبِ رِيحِهَا قَالَ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَأَيْنَ ضَغْطَةُ الْقَبْرِ فَقَالَ هَيْهَاتَ مَا عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْهَا شَيْ‏ءٌ وَالله إِنَّ هَذِهِ الأرْضَ لَتَفْتَخِرُ عَلَى هَذِهِ فَيَقُولُ وَطِىَ عَلَى ظَهْرِي مُؤْمِنٌ وَلَمْ يَطَأْ عَلَى ظَهْرِكِ مُؤْمِنٌ وَتَقُولُ لَهُ الأرْضُ وَالله لَقَدْ كُنْتُ أُحِبُّكَ وَأَنْتَ تَمْشِي عَلَى ظَهْرِي فَأَمَّا إِذَا وُلِّيتُكَ فَسَتَعْلَمُ مَا ذَا أَصْنَعُ بِكَ فَتَفْسَحُ لَهُ مَدَّ بَصَرِهِ.

Published English translation

2. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Muhammad ‘Isa from Yunus from Khalid ibn ‘Umarah from abu Basir who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that when a dying person loses the ability to speak, the Messenger of Allah comes to him along with whomever Allah wants. The Messenger of Allah sits near his right side and the other on his left side. The Messenger of Allah then says, ‘What you hoped for is in front of you, you are safe from that of which you were afraid.’ Then he opens for him a door to paradise saying, ‘This is your dwelling place in paradise. However, if you like I can send you back to the worldly life where you can have gold and silver.’ He will then say, ‘I do not want the worldly things.’ At this time his color whitens, his forehead sweats, his lips shrink, his nostrils expand and his left eye tears up (moistons with tears). Whichever of these signs you see is enough. When the soul departs the body, it is given the choice again as when in the body but it chooses the life hereafter. He is then washed among those who wash him and is turned side to side among those who turn him side to side. When he is wrapped up in the shroud and is placed on the stretcher, his spirit comes out and begins to walk before the people. The spirits of believing people meet him with greetings of peace and good news of whatever bounties Allah, to whom belongs the Glorious praise, has prepared for him. When he is placed in his grave his spirit is returned to him down to his thighs and is asked of what he knows. If he then comes up with what he knows, that door which the Messenger of Allah had shown to him is opened, light, brightness, coolness, goodness and sweet smelling fragrance comes to him from there.’ The narrator has said that I then asked, ‘What about the strong pressure that grave applies?’ The Imam replied, ‘Never, a thing as such ever happens to believing people. By Allah, this earth feels proud of him saying, “Look, a believing person walks upon me but no believing person walks upon you.” The earth says to him, “I loved you when you walked upon my back and when I love, you can see what I will do for you.” It opens up as far and wide as his eyes can see.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/288)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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