Deathbed Quotes

Final words of Hazrat Ameer Muawiؓya ¹Makhul reported that when Ameer Muawؓiya (died. 671) was on his deathbed, he called his children and wife and said to them bring that special chest, they brought it out, it was locked. Makhul said we thought it contained diamonds.   Muawiyؓa said, “I have treasured this until today, open it!” When we opened it, there were 3 pieces of cloth. Muawiya said, “this is the shirt of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, this is the cloak he wore on the farewell pilgrimage, I also asked him to give me the loincloth he was wearing, so he said when I go home I will send It to you. He then sent it to me.  Then one day when he was having his hair cut, I asked ‘please give me these hairs’, he said ‘take them Muawiya’.  So, when I die, shroud me in the shirt of the Messenger ﷺ, and cover me with his cloak, and scatter the Messenger’s ﷺ hair. over me, put them on my face and over my chest, it will attract the kindness of my Kind Lord ﷻ”.   A...

 The Final Words of Nuh (عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ) ‘ᵃᵇᵈᵘˡˡᵃʰ ⁱᵇⁿ ‘ᵘᵐᵃʳ  ʳᵉˡᵃᵗᵉᵈ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵉˢˢᵉⁿᵍᵉʳ ᵒᶠ ᵃˡˡᵃʰ ﷺ ˢᵃⁱᵈ, “ˢʰᵃˡˡ ⁱ ⁿᵒᵗ ⁱⁿᶠᵒʳᵐ ʸᵒᵘ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ⁱⁿˢᵗʳᵘᶜᵗⁱᵒⁿˢ ᵒᶠ ⁿᵘʰ ?” ᵗʰᵉʸ (ᵗʰᵉ ᶜᵒᵐᵖᵃⁿⁱᵒⁿˢ) ˢᵃⁱᵈ, “ʸᵉˢ” ʰᵉ ˢᵃⁱᵈ, “ⁿᵘʰ ᵃᵈᵛⁱˢᵉᵈ ʰⁱˢ ˢᵒⁿ ᵇʸ ˢᵃʸⁱⁿᵍ,   ⁱᵗ ʷᵃˢ ⁿᵃʳʳᵃᵗᵉᵈ ᵗᵒ ᵘˢ ᵇʸ ᵃʰᵐᵃᵈ ⁱᵇⁿ ᵐᵘʰᵃᵐᵐᵃᵈ ⁱᵇⁿ ᶻⁱʸᵃᵈ [33]  [...] [34] ᵗʰᵃᵗ ⁱᵇⁿ 'ᵃᵇᵇᵃˢ [35] ˢᵃⁱᵈ, “ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵉˢˢᵉⁿᵍᵉʳ ᵒᶠ ᵃˡˡᵃʰ ﷺ ˢᵃⁱᵈ,‘ⁿᵘʰ  ᵃᵈᵛⁱˢᵉᵈ ʰⁱˢ ˢᵒⁿ ᵇʸ ˢᵃʸⁱⁿᵍ, ‘I shall not lengthen my speech so that it is easier for you to remember it.  Allah and His righteous slaves rejoice for two things and there are two things He and His righteous slaves resent. As for the former, they are:  To testify (لا إله إلا الله ) that there is none worthy of worship except Allah.  Indeed, if the sky and the earth and the creations in between them were to become one solid unit, it would break it, and if it is placed on one side of a balance, it would make the side it is in heavier than the other, [and the other thing is سُبْ...

 Last words of Adam (عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ) It was narrated to us by Abu ‘Abdillah ibn Ahmad (1 )[...] that ‘Utayy ibn al-Sa‘d! (2). reported that Ubayy ibn Ka‘b (3) said:  “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘When Adam was on his deathbed, Allah sent him a shroud and embalming scent from Paradise.  When Hawa saw the Angels, she grew frightened. Adam said to her,‘Let me be alone with my Lord’s messengers. Because of you, I was afflicted with what I had to endure, and had it not been because of you, nothing of this would have happened.”’  This story is da-if as can be observed from the footnotes regarding its narrators. The authors father, ‘Abdullah ibn Ahmad appears in the chain of narration who is considered to be a da‘if narrator. Muhammad ibn Dhikwan al-Basrl is also considered to be a daif‘ narrator (1) Abdillah Ibn Ahmed is the authors father, ‘Abdullah ibn Ahmad al-Qadi. He was a jurist and a muhaddith who was the sole narrator of some ahadith. He was considered a d...

It was narrated to us by Abu al-Qasim 'Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al- AzIz al-BaghawI [1]that Ibn Abl Mulaykah[2  ] narrated  that Aishah R.A said , “My father told me: In what did you shroud the Mes-senger of Allah ﷺ?’  I replied that we shrouded him in three pieces of clothing.   He said, ‘Take these two clothes of mine and wash them— both of which were dyed in a reddish colour—and buy me a third piece of clothing but make sure it is not expensive.  I replied,‘O father, We are well off so we can buy an expensive one.   He said, ‘O daughter, the living is worthier of wearing new garments than the dead. Shroud is for nothing but oozing water and pus.    Allah knows best! Note: [1].  He was a hafiz, a thiqah narrator and an illustrious scholar. He heard from  an excess of three hundred scholars. He lived a long life, he was born during the month of Ramadan in the year 214H and he died during the night of al-F...