مسند أحمد بن حنبل
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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Chapter: Musnad of Abū Ḥamzah Anas ibn Mālik al-Anṣārī, the Servant of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
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مُسْنَدُ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ خَادِمِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ
Three-Narrator Ahadith 140
Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) reported:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him; and whoever hates to meet Allah, Allah hates to meet him.” We said, “O Messenger of Allah, all of us dislike death.” He replied, “That [dislike] is not what is meant by hating to meet Allah. Rather, when the believer is near death a glad tiding comes to him from Allah of what he is about to receive, and there is nothing then more beloved to him than having met Allah, so Allah loves to meet him. But when the sinner or the disbeliever is near death, tidings come to him of the evil that awaits him, and he hates to meet Allah, so Allah hates to meet him.”
Reference:
Musnad Aḥmad 140
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ أَحَبَّ لِقَاءَ اللَّهِ أَحَبَّ اللَّهُ لِقَاءَهُ، وَمَنْ كَرِهَ لِقَاءَ اللَّهِ كَرِهَ اللَّهُ لِقَاءَهُ». قُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، كُلُّنَا نَكْرَهُ الْمَوْتَ. قَالَ: «لَيْسَ ذَاكَ كَرَاهِيَةَ الْمَوْتِ، وَلَكِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ إِذَا حُضِرَ جَاءَهُ الْبَشِيرُ مِنَ اللَّهِ بِمَا هُوَ صَائِرٌ إِلَيْهِ، فَلَيْسَ شَيْءٌ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ أَنْ يَكُونَ قَدْ لَقِيَ اللَّهَ، فَأَحَبَّ اللَّهُ لِقَاءَهُ. وَإِنَّ الْفَاجِرَ أَوِ الْكَافِرَ إِذَا حُضِرَ جَاءَهُ بِمَا هُوَ صَائِرٌ إِلَيْهِ مِنَ الشَّرِّ، فَكَرِهَ لِقَاءَ اللَّهِ، وَكَرِهَ اللَّهُ لِقَاءَهُ».
| Grade: | Ṣaḥīḥ |
according to the conditions of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.
Chain: Aḥmad → Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdiyy → Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl → Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) → the Prophet ﷺ. Rijāl: (1) Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdiyy al-Sulamī al-Baṣrī: thiqa thabt, d. 194 AH. (2) Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl al-Baṣrī: thiqa, d. 142 AH. (3) Anas ibn Mālik: Companion, d. ca. 93 AH. Takhrīj: Al-Bukhārī (6507); Muslim (2683); Aḥmad (12047). The narration resolves an apparent difficulty: a natural aversion to the pain of dying is not what is meant by hating to meet Allah. What is intended is the state of the heart at the moment when the veil is lifted and the soul beholds its destination, whereupon the believer longs for the meeting and the heedless recoil from it. ʿĀʾisha (may Allah be pleased with her) transmitted the same clarification, and the scholars accordingly held that the relevant moment is the one at which repentance is no longer accepted.
Chain: Aḥmad → Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdiyy → Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl → Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) → the Prophet ﷺ. Rijāl: (1) Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdiyy al-Sulamī al-Baṣrī: thiqa thabt, d. 194 AH. (2) Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl al-Baṣrī: thiqa, d. 142 AH. (3) Anas ibn Mālik: Companion, d. ca. 93 AH. Takhrīj: Al-Bukhārī (6507); Muslim (2683); Aḥmad (12047). The narration resolves an apparent difficulty: a natural aversion to the pain of dying is not what is meant by hating to meet Allah. What is intended is the state of the heart at the moment when the veil is lifted and the soul beholds its destination, whereupon the believer longs for the meeting and the heedless recoil from it. ʿĀʾisha (may Allah be pleased with her) transmitted the same clarification, and the scholars accordingly held that the relevant moment is the one at which repentance is no longer accepted.
| Reference | : Three-Narrator Ahadith 140 |
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