حَضَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) رَجُلًا مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ كَانَتْ لَهُ حَالَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَحَضَرَهُ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ فَنَظَرَ إِلَى مَلَكِ الْمَوْتِ عِنْدَ رَأْسِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ارْفُقْ بِصَاحِبِي فَإِنَّهُ مُؤْمِنٌ فَقَالَ لَهُ مَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ يَا مُحَمَّدُ طِبْ نَفْساً وَ قَرَّ عَيْناً فَإِنِّي بِكُلِّ مُؤْمِنٍ رَفِيقٌ شَفِيقٌ وَ اعْلَمْ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنِّي لَأَحْضُرُ ابْنَ آدَمَ عِنْدَ قَبْضِ رُوحِهِ فَإِذَا قَبَضْتُهُ صَرَخَ صَارِخٌ مِنْ أَهْلِهِ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ فَأَتَنَحَّى فِي جَانِبِ الدَّارِ وَ مَعِي رُوحُهُ فَأَقُولُ لَهُمْ وَ اللَّهِ مَا ظَلَمْنَاهُ وَ لَا سَبَقْنَا بِهِ أَجَلَهُ وَ لَا اسْتَعْجَلْنَا بِهِ قَدَرَهُ وَ مَا كَانَ لَنَا فِي قَبْضِ رُوحِهِ مِنْ ذَنْبٍ فَإِنْ تَرْضَوْا بِمَا صَنَعَ اللَّهُ بِهِ وَ تَصْبِرُوا تُؤْجَرُوا وَ تُحْمَدُوا وَ إِنْ تَجْزَعُوا وَ تَسْخَطُوا تَأْثَمُوا وَ تُوزَرُوا وَ مَا لَكُمْ عِنْدَنَا مِنْ عُتْبَى وَ إِنَّ لَنَا عِنْدَكُمْ أَيْضاً لَبَقِيَّةً وَ عَوْدَةً فَالْحَذَرَ الْحَذَرَ فَمَا مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِ مَدَرٍ وَ لَا شَعْرٍ فِي بَرٍّ وَ لَا بَحْرٍ إِلَّا وَ أَنَا أَتَصَفَّحُهُمْ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ خَمْسَ مَرَّاتٍ عِنْدَ مَوَاقِيتِ الصَّلَاةِ حَتَّى لَأَنَا أَعْلَمُ مِنْهُمْ بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ وَ لَوْ أَنِّي يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَرَدْتُ قَبْضَ نَفْسِ بَعُوضَةٍ مَا قَدَرْتُ عَلَى قَبْضِهَا حَتَّى يَكُونَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ هُوَ الْآمِرَ بِقَبْضِهَا وَ إِنِّي لَمُلَقِّنُ الْمُؤْمِنِ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ شَهَادَةَ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Ibn Mahboub, from Al Mufazzal Bin Salih, from Jabir, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> attended a man from the Helpers, and there was a good status for him in the presence of Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>. So he<sup>saww</sup> attended him during his death, and he<sup>saww</sup> looked towards the Angel of death by his head, and Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> said to him: ‘Be kind with my<sup>saww</sup> companion, for he is a Believer’. So the Angel of death said to him<sup>saww</sup>: ‘O Muhammad<sup>saww</sup>! Feel good with yourself<sup>sa</sup><sup>ww</sup> and delight the eyes, for I am kind, compassionate with every Believer. And know, O Muhammad<sup>saww</sup>! I am present with a son of Adam<sup>as</sup> during the capture of his soul. So when I capture it, a shrieker from his family shrieks out during that. So I stand aside by the side of the house, and with me is his soul, and I am saying to them: ‘By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! We have neither oppressed you nor have be preceded his term with him, nor have we hastened his Ordainment with him; and there was never a sin for us during the capture of his soul. So if you were to be pleased with what Allah<sup>azwj</sup> has Done with him, and are patient, you would be Recompensed and you would be Praised; and if you were to panic and are angered, you would be sinning, and be burdened, and there should not be a criticism for you about us, and that for us with you as well, is a remainder and a return. So the caution is the caution, and there is none from a family, neither urban nor rural, in a land nor in a sea, except that I scan them five times during every day during the timings of their <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> until I am more knowing of them than their own selves are. And had I wanted, O Muhammad<sup>saww</sup>, to capture the soul of a fly, I would not have the ability upon its capture until Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic happened to have Commanded with its capture, and I prompt the Believer during his death, the testimony that there is no god except for Allah<sup>azwj</sup> and that Muhammad<sup>saww</sup> is Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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