Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba 27:245

Husayn ibn Ali narrated to us, from Za’idah, from Maysarah al-Ashja’i, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, who said: I asked Ka’b about [the verse]: "And We raised him to a high station" (19:57) regarding Idris. He said: As for raising Idris to a high station, he was a pious servant, and there was raised up for him of righteous deeds what was not raised for the people of the earth among the people of his time. He said: The angel who used to ascend with his deeds was amazed, so he sought permission from his Lord to visit him. He said: "O Lord, permit me to go to this servant of Yours so that I may visit him." So He permitted him, and he descended and said: "O Idris, rejoice, for there is raised up for you of righteous deeds what is not raised for the people of the earth." He said: "And what makes you know that?" He said: "I am an angel." He said: "Even if you are an angel?" He said: "I am at the gate through which your deeds ascend." He said: "Will you not intercede for me with the Angel of Death so that he may delay [my death] for my sake, so that I may increase in gratitude and worship?" The angel said to him: "Allah does not delay a soul when its appointed time comes." He said: "I know, but it would be more pleasant for my soul." So the angel carried him on his wing and ascended with him to the heaven. He said: "O Angel of Death, this is a pious servant, a prophet, for whom there is raised up of righteous deeds what is not raised for the people of the earth, and I was amazed by that, so I sought permission from my Lord to visit him. When I gave him the glad tidings of that, he asked me to intercede with you for him so that you might delay [his death] for his sake, so that he may increase in gratitude and worship to Allah." He said: "And who is this?" He said: "Idris." So he looked into a book he had with him until he passed by his name, and he said: "By Allah, there does not remain anything of the appointed time of Idris," and he erased it, and he died in his place.