Ahadith

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Remember often the terminator of pleasures (i.e. death) (Tirmidhi). (An-Nur 17, Al-Fajr 16)

Ubayy ibn Ka‘ab relates that when a third of the night passed the Holy Prophet would get up and call out: Ye people, remember Allah; the calamity has arrived, followed by another. Death has arrived with all it comprises; death has arrived with all it comprises. On one occasion I said to the Holy Prophet: Messenger of Allah, I call down blessings on you repeatedly: how much of them shall I devote to you? He said: As much as you would wish. I said. A quarter? He said: If you wish; but it would be better for you were to increase it. I said: Half? He said: Whatever you wish, but it would be better for you were you to increase it. I said: Two-thirds? He said: As you wish; but it would be better for you if you were to increase it. I said: Shall I devote all my supplications to blessings on you? He said: In that case it would take care of all thy worries and thy sins will be forgiven (Tirmidhi). (An-Nur 17, Al-Fajr 16)

Buraidah relates that the Holy Prophet said: I had forbidden you visiting graves; but now you might visit them (Muslim). One version is: He who wishes might visit graves for they remind us of the hereafter. (An-Nur 17, Al-Fajr 16)

Ayesha relates that when it was the turn of the Holy Prophet to stay with me, he would go forth during the latter part of the night to Baqi‘ah (the cemetery) and his greeting was: Peace be on you dwellers of this home of the faithful. May you be given on the Day of Judgment according to the term appointed that which you have been promised. We shall, if Allah so wills, join you. Forgive, O Allah, the dwellers of Baqi‘ah (Muslim). (An-Nur 17, Al-Fajr 16)

Buraidah relates that the Holy Prophet taught that any of them visiting a cemetery should say: Peace be on you dwellers of this home of believers and Muslims, and we, if Allah so wills, shall join you. I supplicate for peace for you and for ourselves (Muslim). (An-Nur 17, Al-Fajr 16)

Ibn Abbas relates that the Holy Prophet passed by some graves in Medina. He faced towards them and said: Peace be on you dwellers of the graves. May Allah forgive you and us. You are our heralds and we are following you (Tirmidhi). (An-Nur 17, Al-Fajr 16)

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: No one of you should wish for death, for if-he is virtuous it is possible that he might add to his good works, and if he is an evil doer he might be able to remedy his past ‘Bokhari and Muslim). Muslim's version is: No one of you should wish or pray for it before it comes to him. When he dies his actions will be terminated; and in the case of a believer his age only adds to good for him. (An-Nur 17, Al-Fajr 16)

This hadith is the same as No. 40. (An-Nur 17, Al-Fajr 16)

Qais ibn Hazum relates: We went to visit Khubaib ibn Arat in his illness. He had had his blood let at seven places. He said: Our companions who have passed on before have lost nothing in respect of the world and we have found that the only place for it is in the earth. Had the Holy Prophet not forbidden us praying for death, I would have prayed for it. Thereafter we visited him again and he was repairing a wall. He said: There is a reward for a Muslim in respect of everything on which he spends money except when he commits it to clay (Bokhari and Muslim). (Qaf 52)

Nu‘man ibn Bashir relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say: That which is lawful is clear and also that which is unlawful, and between the two is that which is doubtful of which most people are not aware. He who keeps off the doubtful secures his faith and his honour, but he who falls into the doubtful falls into the unlawful, like a shepherd who grazes his flock in the vicinity of a protected pasture and runs the risk that some of his flock might" stray into the pasture. Mind, every king has a pasture. Beware, Allah's pasture is that which He has forbidden. Hearken! In the body there is a lump ‘of flesh, when it is healthy the whole body is healthy and when it is corrupted the whole body is corrupted (Bokhari and Muslim). (Qaf 52)