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Al-Kafi · Hadith 31

The Book on Dying People · The Rare Ahadith · Volume 3, book 3, chapter 95, Hadith 31

Original Arabic text

31ـ مُحَمَّدٌ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عُلْوَانَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شِمْرٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ لَحْظَةِ مَلَكِ الْمَوْتِ قَالَ أَ مَا رَأَيْتَ النَّاسَ يَكُونُونَ جُلُوساً فَتَعْتَرِيهِمُ السَّكْتَةُ فَمَا يَتَكَلَّمُ أَحَدٌ مِنْهُمْ فَتِلْكَ لَحْظَةُ مَلَكِ الْمَوْتِ حَيْثُ يَلْحَظُهُمْ.

Published English translation

31. Muhammad has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from al-Husayn ibn ‘Ulwan from ‘Amr ibn Shimr from Jabir who has said the following: "I asked him [abu Ja‘far (a.s.)], about the moment of the angel of death." The Imam said, "Have you not seen people sitting, then suddenly they are struck with silence? No one of them (in such condition) is able to speak. That is the moment of the angel of death who examines them.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (14/259)

Assessment transcribed from the source's named scholar and reference. No new grading or consensus is asserted; differing entries remain separate.

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

Source records non-inclusion in this scholar's selection; this is not itself a weak or authentic grade.

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