Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1003
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أَسِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي أَسِيدٍ، أَنَّ مُوسَى بْنَ أَبِي مُوسَى الأَشْعَرِيِّ، أَخْبَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " مَا مِنْ مَيِّتٍ يَمُوتُ فَيَقُومُ بَاكِيهِ فَيَقُولُ وَاجَبَلاَهُ وَاسَيِّدَاهُ أَوْ نَحْوَ ذَلِكَ إِلاَّ وُكِّلَ بِهِ مَلَكَانِ يَلْهَزَانِهِ أَهَكَذَا كُنْتَ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ali ibn Hujr narrated to us: Muhammad ibn 'Ammar informed us: Asid ibn Abi Asid narrated to me that Musa ibn Abi Musa al-Ash'ari informed him, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No deceased person dies with someone standing over him, weeping and saying, 'O my mountain! O my master!' or words to that effect, except that two angels are assigned to him to prod him, saying, 'Were you like that?'" Abu Isa said: This is a hasan gharīb hadith.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " مَا مِنْ مَيِّتٍ يَمُوتُ فَيَقُومُ بَاكِيهِ فَيَقُولُ وَاجَبَلاَهُ وَاسَيِّدَاهُ أَوْ نَحْوَ ذَلِكَ إِلاَّ وُكِّلَ بِهِ مَلَكَانِ يَلْهَزَانِهِ أَهَكَذَا كُنْتَ " .
The cries are highly idiomatic expressions of lament, and the verb for what the two angels do is rare; the Arabic also leaves the referent of 'like that' implicit.
Should the cries and the angels' question remain this literal, or is there a more contextually accurate rendering that preserves the wording's uncertainty?