Thinking about death

Said by people who have already been given everything

They are asked whether they want more, and they cannot think what.

فَيَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا أَعْطَيْتَنَا مَا لَمْ تُعْطِ أَحَدًا مِنَ الْعَالَمِينَ

He will say: shall I not give you something better than this? They will say: our Lord, what is better than this? He will say: I bestow My pleasure upon you, and I will never be displeased with you after it.

The full narration

It is narrated on the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri:We said: Messenger of Allah, shall we see our Lord? The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Do you feel any trouble in seeing the sun on a cloudless day? We said: No. And the remaining part of the hadith has been narrated to the end like the hadith transmitted by Hafs b. Maisara with the addition of these words: Without the deed that they did or any good that they had sent before. It would be said to them: For you is whatever you see (in it) and with it the like of it. Abu Sa'id said: I have come to know that the bridge would be thinner even than the hair and sharper than the sword; and in the hadith narrated by Laith these words are not found: They would say, O our Lord! Thou hast bestowed upon us (favours) which thou didst not bestow on anyone else in the world

Source

Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim · 455

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  • Agreed upon as authentic (al-Bukhārī / Muslim)
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