Hadith / Musnad Ahmad / 1234:6

Musnad Ahmad 1234:6

Hadith of Khabbab ibn al-Aratt (RA)

من حديث خباب بن الأرت

Hadith 1234:6

Yahya ibn Adam narrated to us, he said: Isra'il narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Harithah ibn Mudarrib, who said: I entered upon Khabbab while he had been cauterized seven times. He said: "Were it not that I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say: 'None of you should wish for death,' I would have wished for it. I have seen myself with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) while I did not possess a single dirham, and now there are forty thousand dirhams in the side of my house." He said: Then his shroud was brought to him. When he saw it, he wept and said: "But Hamzah was not found to have a shroud except for a striped cloak; if it was placed over his head, it would shrink away from his feet, and if it was placed over his feet, it would shrink away from his head, until it was pulled over his head, and Idhkhir (a type of grass) was placed over his feet."

حدثنا يحيى بن آدم، قال: حدثنا إسرائيل، عن أبي إسحاق، عن حارثة بن مضرب قال: دخلت على خباب وقد اكتوى سبعا فقال: لولا أني سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: " لا يتمن أحدكم الموت "، لتمنيته، ولقد رأيتني مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ما أملك درهما، وإن في جانب بيتي الآن لأربعين ألف درهم، قال: ثم أتي بكفنه فلما رآه بكى وقال: لكن حمزة لم يوجد له كفن إلا بردة ملحاء، إذا جعلت على رأسه قلصت عن قدميه، وإذا جعلت على قدميه قلصت عن رأسه، حتى مدت على رأسه، وجعل على قدميه الإذخر