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63. ADDRESSING A PERSON WHO WILL LEAVE THIS WORLD

WITH THE KALIMAṬ LĀ ILĀHA ILLALLĀH.
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.ﺔﱠﻨْ ﳉا ﻞﺧد ﷲا ﻻإ ﻪﻟإ ﻻ ﻪﻣﻼﻛ ﺮﺧآ نﺎﻛ ْ َ – ﻦﻣ ۱۳۲
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“Whomsoever’s last words are ‘Lā Ilāha Illallāh’ (There is no ilāh
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except Allāh), will enter Paradise”.

The Prophet  said: “Give talqīn (instruction) to the person
who will die from amongst you with (by means of) ‘Lā Ilāha
Illallāh’”. The Prophet  said: “Whoever’s last words, when he
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will die are ‘Lā Ilāha Illallāh’, then he enters Paradise some time

later, despite having experienced the possible befalling of disaster
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before that”.

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reading of Sūrah Yā-Sīn or some other Sūrah upon/over the person who will die/has already died.
The ḥadīth which states: “Read Yā-Sīn upon/over the person who will die”, is narrated by Aḥmad
V/26-27, Ibnu Mājah no. 1448, Al Ḥākim I/565, Al Baihaqī III/383 and others. This ḥadīth is ḍafiif
(weak) because within its sanad is a narrator who is majhūl (unknown) and iḍṭirāb (speculative,
shaky).
Imām An-Nawawī within his book Kitāb al Adhkār states that this ḥadīth is weak, within it are two
narrators who are majhūl (unknown). Refer to Aḥkāmul Janā√iz pp. 20 and 307, Ṣaḥīḥ al Adhkār wa
Ḍafiīfuhu I/388-389 no. 430/123.
401 Narrated by Abū Dāwūd no. 3116, Aḥmad and Al Ḥākim from the ṣaḥābī Mufiādh and refer to
Ṣaḥīḥul Jāmifi no. 6479.
402 Narrated by Muslim no. 916, Abū Dāwūd no. 3117, At-Tirmidhī no. 976, An-Nasā√ī IV/5, Ibnu
Mājah no. 1445.
403 Narrated by Ibnu Ḥibbān no. 719, Ṣaḥīḥ Mawaridiẓ-Ẓam√ān no. 595. Refer to Aḥkāmul Janā√iz p.
19, published by Maktabah al Mafiarif, 1412 H. Irwā√ul Ghalīl III/150.
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