Mishkat
al-Masabih
مشكاة المصابيح
05
Funerals
كتاب الجنائز
Chapter 2b: Wishing for Death and Keeping it in Remembrance - Section 2
باب تمني الموت وذكره - الفصل الثاني
Mishkat al-Masabih 1609
‘Abdallah b. ‘Amr reported Allah's Messenger ﷺ as saying, ‘‘The gift to a believer is death.”( i.e. death is the means by which he gains an introduction to the delights of paradise.) Baihaqi transmitted it in Shu'ab al-iman.
وَعَن عبد الله بن عَمْرو قَالَ ك قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «تُحْفَةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ الْمَوْتُ» . رَوَاهُ الْبَيْهَقِيُّ فِي شُعَبِ الْإِيمَان