Al-Kafi · Hadith 7

The Book on Dying People · Things that Believers and Unbelievers See in Dying Conditions · Volume 3, book 3, chapter 13, Hadith 7

Original Arabic text

7ـ حُمَيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْكِنْدِيِّ عَنْ غَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ جُذَاعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ إِنَّ النَّفْسَ إِذَا وَقَعَتْ فِي الْحَلْقِ أَتَاهُ مَلَكٌ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا هَذَا أَوْ يَا فُلاَنُ أَمَّا مَا كُنْتَ تَرْجُو فَأْيَسْ مِنْهُ وَهُوَ الرُّجُوعُ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا وَأَمَّا مَا كُنْتَ تَخَافُ فَقَدْ أَمِنْتَ مِنْهُ.

Published English translation

7. Humayd ibn Ziyad has narrated from al-Hassan ibn Muhammad al-Kindiy from more than one person from Aban ibn ‘Uthman from ‘Amir ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Judha‘ah who has said the following: “I heard abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), say, ‘When a soul reaches the throat, an angel comes and says to him, “O you, - or so and so - what you had hoped for, be certain, is of no avail to you, meaning returning to the worldly life, but you have become safe from whatever you were afraid of.’””

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مرسل مختلف فيه

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/293)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, pp. 229, 230

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