Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 687
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي قَيْسٌ قَالَ: أَتَيْتُ خَبَّابًا، وَقَدِ اكْتَوَى سَبْعًا، وَقَالَ: لَوْلاَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم نَهَانَا أَنْ نَدْعُوَ بِالْمَوْتِ لَدَعَوْتُ بِهِ.
Translation
Musaddad related to us: Yahya related to us, from Isma‘il, who said: Qays related to me, saying: I went to Khabbab, who had been cauterized seven times. He said, “Were it not that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade us to pray for death, I would pray for it.”