Hadith on Death: Remembering death balances hope in the Hereafter

Ibn Umar reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Remember often the destroyer of pleasures: death. Verily, no one living with plenty does so but that it diminishes his vain hopes, nor one living with little but that it increases his hope in Allah.”

Source: al-Mu’jam al-Awsaṭ lil-Ṭabarānī 5780

Grade: Hasan (fair) according to Al-Haythami

عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَكْثَرُوا ذَكَرَ هَاذِمِ اللَّذَّاتِ يَعْنِي الْمَوْتَ فَإِنَّهُ مَا كَانَ فِي كَثِيرٍ إِلَّا قَلَّلَهُ وَلَا قَلِيلٍ إِلَّا جَزَّأَهُ

5780 المعجم الأوسط للطبراني

18213 المحدث الهيثمي خلاصة حكم المحدث إسناده حسن في مجمع الزوائد

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