It has been narrated on the authority of Jabir who said:
We were one thousand and four hundred on the Day of Hudaibiya. We swore fealty to hiin (the Holy Prophet) and 'Umar was holding the latter's hand (when he was sitting) under the tree (called) Samura (to administer the oath to the Companions). The narrator added: We took oath to the effect that we would not flee (from the battlefield if there was an encounter with the Meccans), but we did not take oath to fight to death.
It has been narrated (through a different chain of transmitters) on the authority of Jabir who said:
While swearing fealty to the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) we did not take the oath to death but that we would not run away (from the battlefield).
It has been narrated on the authority of Ma'qil b. Yasar who aaid:
I remember being present on the Day of the Tree, and the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) was taking the oath of the people and I was holding a twig of the tree over his head. We were fourteen hundred (in number). We did not take oath to the death, but to the effect that we would not run away from the battlefield.
It has been narrated on the authority of Yazid b. Abu Ubaid (the freed slave of Salama b. al-Akwa') who said:
1 asked Salama as to what effect he had sworn fealty to the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) on the Day of Hudaibiya. He said: To the effect that we will die fighting.
It has been narrated on the authority of Abdullah b. Zaid who said:
A person came to him and said: Here is Ibn Hanzala who is making people swear allegiance to him. He (, Abdullah) asked: To what effect? He replied: To the effect that they will die for him. 'Abdullah said: I will never swear allegiance to this effect after the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ).
It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said:
Of the men he lives the best life who holds the reins of his horse (ever ready to march) in the way of Allah, flies on its back whenever he hears a fearful shriek, or a call for help, flies to it seeking death at places where it can be expected. (Next to him) is a man who lives with his sheep at a hill-top or in a valley, says his prayers regularly, gives Zakat and worships his Lord until death comes to him. There is no better person among men except these two.
Muhammad b. Jubair b. Mut'im reported on the authority of his father that a woman asked Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) about something but lit, told her to come to him on some other occasion, whereupon she said:
What in your opinion (should I do) if I come to you but do not find you, and it seemed as if she meant that he might die. Thereupon he said: If you do not find me, then come to Abu Bakr. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Jubair b.
Abdullah reported that Umm Habiba, the wife of Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), said:
0 Allah, enable me to derive benefit from my husband, the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), and from my father Abu Sufyan and from my brother Mu'awiya. Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: You have asked from Allah about durations of life already set, and the length of days already allotted and the sustenances the share of which has been fixed. Allah would not do anything earlier before its due time, or He would not delay anything beyond its due time. And if you were to ask Allah to provide you refuge from the torment of the HellFire, or from the torment of the grave, it would have good in store for you and better for you also. He (the narrator) further said: Mention was made before him about monkeys, and Mis'ar (one of the narrators) said: I think that (the narrator) also (made a mention) of the swine, which had suffered metamorphosis. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Verily, Allah did not cause the race of those which suffered metamorphosis to grow or they were not survived by young ones. Monkeys and swine had been in existence even before (the metamorphosis of the human beings).
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Mis'ar with the same chain of transmitters but with this variation that the hadith transmitted on the authority of Ibn Bishr and Waki', the torment of the Hell-Fire and the torment of grave have been mentioned together (and there is no conjunction iw or between them).
Ibn Mas'dd reported that Umm Habiba said:
0 Allah, enable me to derive benefit from my husband, Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), and from my father Abu Sufyan, and from my brother Mu'awiya. Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said to her: Verily, you have asked Allah about the durations of life already set, and the steps which you would take, and the sustenances the share of which is fixed. Nothing would take place earlier than its due time, and nothing would be deferred beyond that when it is due. So, if you were to ask Allah about your safety from the torment of Hell-Fire and from the torment of the grave, it would have been better for you. A person said: Allah's Messenger, what about those apes and swine which suffered metamorphosis? Thereupon Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Verily, Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, did not destroy a people or did not torment a people, and let their race grow. Apes and swine had been even before that (when the deniers of truth were tormented and suffered metamorphosis).
Anas (b. Malik) reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying. None of you should make a request for death because of the trouble in which he is involved, but if there is no other help to it, then say:
O Allah, keep me alive as long as there is goodness in life for me and bring death to me when there is goodness in death for me.
Nadr b. Anas reported, as when Anas was alive, that he said:
Had Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) not stated this.. None should make a request for death, I would have definitely done that.
Abu Hazim reported:
I visited Khabbab who had seven cauteries on his stomach and he said: Had Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) not forbidden us to call for death, I would have done so.
Hammam b. Munabbih said:
Abu Huraira narrated to us ahadith from Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and out of these one is that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: None amongst you should make a request for death, and do not call for it before it comes, for when any one of you dies, he ceases (to do good) deeds and the life of a believer is not prolonged but for goodness
A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said:
He who loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him, and he who dislikes to meet Allah, Allah abhors to meet him. I ('A'isha) said: Allah's Apostle, so far as the feeling of aversion against death is concerned, we all have this feeling. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: It is not that (which you construe), but (this) that when a believer (at the time of death) is given the glad tidings of the mercy of Allah, His Pleasure, and of Paradise, he loves to meet Allah, and Allah also loves to meet him, and when an unbeliever is given the news of the torment at the Hand of Allah, and Hardship to be imposed by Him, he dislikes to meet Allah and Allah also abhors to meet him.
A'isha reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying:
He who loves to meet Allah, Allah also loves to meet him, and who dislikes to meet Allah, Allah abhors to meet him. There is death before (one is able to) meet Allah.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying:
He who loves meeting Allah, Allah loves to meet him, and he who dislikes to meet Allah, Allah abhors to meet him. I (Shuraih b. Hani, one of the narrators) came to A'isha and said to her: Mother of the faithful, I heard Abu Huraira narrate from Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) which, if it is actually so, is a destruction to us. Thereupon she said: Those are in fact ruined who are ruined at the words of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ). What are (the words which in your opinion would cause your destruction)? He said that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had stated: He who loves to meet Allah, Allah too loves to meet him, and he who dislikes to meet Allah, Allah too abhors to meet him, and there is none amongst us who dons not hate death. Thereupon she said: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) has in fact stated this, but it does not mean what you construe, but it implies (the time) when one loses the lustre of the eye, and there is rattling in the throat, shudder in the body and convulsion in fingers (at the time of death). (It is about this time) that it has been said: He who loves to meet Allah, Allah would love to meet him, and he who dislikes to meet Allah, Allah would abhor to meet him
Khabbab reported that Al-`As b. Wa'il owed debt to me. I came to him in order to demand that. He said:
I will never repay you unless you belie Muhammad. I said: I would never belie Muhammad until you die and you are again raised up. He said: When I would be raised up after death, I would repay your debt when I would get my property and children back. Waki` said: This is how Al-A`mash has narrated and it was on this occasion that this verse was revealed: Hast thou seen him who disbelieves in Our message and says: I shall certainly be given wealth and children (xix, 77) up to he would come to Us alone (xix, 80).
A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to make these supplications:
O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from the trial of Hell-Fire; and from the torment of Hell-Fire; and from the trial of the grave and torment of the grave; and from the evil of the trial of the affluence and from the evil of the trial of poverty and I seek refuge in Thee from the evil of the turmoil of the Dajjal. O Allah, wash away my sins with snow and hail water, purify my heart from the sins as is purified the white garment from the dirt, and keep away at a distance the sins from me as yawns the distance between the East and the West; O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from sloth, from senility, from sin, and from debt.
