أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ ابْنِ طَاوُسٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ أُرْسِلَ مَلَکُ الْمَوْتِ إِلَی مُوسَی عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام فَلَمَّا جَائَهُ صَکَّهُ فَفَقَأَ عَيْنَهُ فَرَجَعَ إِلَی رَبِّهِ فَقَالَ أَرْسَلْتَنِي إِلَی عَبْدٍ لَا يُرِيدُ الْمَوْتَ فَرَدَّ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَيْهِ عَيْنَهُ وَقَالَ ارْجِعْ إِلَيْهِ فَقُلْ لَهُ يَضَعُ يَدَهُ عَلَی مَتْنِ ثَوْرٍ فَلَهُ بِکُلِّ مَا غَطَّتْ يَدُهُ بِکُلِّ شَعْرَةٍ سَنَةٌ قَالَ أَيْ رَبِّ ثُمَّ مَهْ قَالَ الْمَوْتُ قَالَ فَالْآنَ فَسَأَلَ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ يُدْنِيَهُ مِنْ الْأَرْضِ الْمُقَدَّسَةِ رَمْيَةً بِحَجَرٍ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَلَوْ کُنْتُ ثَمَّ لَأَرَيْتُکُمْ قَبْرَهُ إِلَی جَانِبِ الطَّرِيقِ تَحْتَ الْکَثِيبِ الْأَحْمَرِ
سنن نسائی · Hadith 2095
It was narrated that Abu Hurairah said: “The angel of death was sent to Musa, peace be upon him, and when he came to him, he slapped him and put his eye out. He went back to his Lord and said: ‘You sent me to a slave who does not want death.’ Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, restored his eye and said: ‘Go back to him and tell him to put his hand on the back of a bull, and for every hair that his hand covers he will have one year.’ He said: ‘Lord, then what?’ He said: ‘Death.’ He said: ‘Let me go now.’ And he (Musa) asked his Lord to bring him within a stone’s throw of the Holy Land, the distance of a stone’s throw. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم said: ‘If I were there, I would show you his grave, beside the road beneath a red dune.” (Sahih)
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020