What he said standing over a man who had just died
Abū Salama's eyes were fixed open and he closed them.
اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لأَبِي سَلَمَةَ وَارْفَعْ دَرَجَتَهُ فِي الْمَهْدِيِّينَ وَاخْلُفْهُ فِي عَقِبِهِ فِي الْغَابِرِينَ وَاغْفِرْ لَنَا وَلَهُ يَا رَبَّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَافْسَحْ لَهُ فِي قَبْرِهِ . وَنَوِّرْ لَهُ فِيهِ
Allāhumma-ghfir li-Abī Salamah, wa-rfaʿ darajatahu fi-l-mahdiyyīn, wa-khlufhu fī ʿaqibihi fi-l-ghābirīn.
“O Allah, forgive Abū Salama, raise his rank among the rightly guided, and take care of those he left behind.”
He asked for the dead man, and then for the family left without him.
The full narration
Umm Salama reported:The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon came to Abu Salama (as he died). His eyes were fixedly open. He closed them, and then said: When the soul is taken away the sight follows it. Some of the people of his family wept and wailed. So he said: Do not supplicate for yourselves anything but good, for angels say" Amen" to what you say. He then said: O Allah, forgive Abu Salama, raise his degree among those who are rightly guided, grant him a successor in his descendants who remain. Forgive us and him, O Lord of the Universe, and make his grave spacious, and grant him light in it
Source
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim · 2130
- Agreed upon as authentic (al-Bukhārī / Muslim)