مسند أحمد
Musnad Ahmad Hadith 252
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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَامِرٌ، وحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، قَالَ:، مَرَّ عُمَرُ بِطَلْحَةَ - فَذَكَرَ مَعْنَاهُ - قَالَ: مَرَّ عُمَرُ بِطَلْحَةَ فَرَآهُ مُهْتَمًّا، قَالَ: لَعَلَّكَ سَاءَكَ (٣) إِمَارَةُ ابْنِ عَمِّكَ - قَالَ: يَعْنِي أَبَا بَكْرٍ - فَقَالَ: لَا، وَلَكِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، يَقُولُ: " إِنِّي لَأَعْلَمُ كَلِمَةً لَا يَقُولُهَا الرَّجُلُ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ إِلَّا كَانَتْ نُورًا (٤) فِي صَحِيفَتِهِ، أَوْ وَجَدَ لَهَا رَوْحًا عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ "، ، قَالَ عُمَرُ: أَنَا أُخْبِرُكَ بِهَا، هِيَ الْكَلِمَةُ الَّتِي أَرَادَ بِهَا عَمَّهُ: شَهَادَةُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ. قَالَ: فَكَأَنَّمَا كُشِفَ عَنِّي غِطَاءٌ، قَالَ: صَدَقْتَ، لَوْ عَلِمَ كَلِمَةً هِيَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْهَا لَأَمَرَهُ بِهَا (١) .،
Translation
English translation
It was narrated that ash-Sha`bi said:
`Umar passed by Talhah, and he narrated a similar report. He said: ‘Umar passed by Talhah and saw him looking worried. He said: Perhaps you are upset because your cousin was appointed (as caliph)? - referring to Abu Bakr. He said: No, but by Allah, I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: `I know a word which, if a man says it when he is dying, it will be light in the record of his deeds, or he will find comfort in it at the time of death.` ‘Umar said: I will tell you of it; it is the word that he wanted his paternal uncle to say, the testimony that there is no god but Allah. He said: It is as if a great burden has been lifted from me. He said: You are right. If he had known anything better that it, he would have instructed him to say it.
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This is Hadith 252 in Musnad Ahmad. It appears in Book 2, Musnad `Umar b. al-Khattab (ra), as in-book entry 171.
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Musnad Ahmad 252 Arabic/English book : Book 2, Hadith 252
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