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Shia hadith/Kitāb al-Zuhd 1

Kitāb al-Zuhd 1, record 149 of the digital edition

Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Ahwāzī · The Two Angels and what they Record

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Arabic text

الحسين بن علوان عن عمرو بن شمر عن جابر عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام قال: سألته عن لحظة ملك الموت عليه السلام قال: ما رأيت القوم يكونون جلوسا فتعتريهم السكتة فما يتكلم أحد منهم؟ فتلك لحظة ملك الموت عليه السلام حين يلحظهم.

Translation

Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUlwān narrated from ʿAmr ibn Shimr, from Jābir, from Abū Jaʿfar (a) whom he asked about the glance of the Angel of Death, so he said “When you see a group of people sitting together and then they are suddenly afflicted by [temporary] speechlessness, so none of them says anything, that is the moment in which the Angel of Death glances at them.”

Translation: Shaykh Tahir Ridha Jaffer — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUlwān narrated
  2. ʿAmr ibn Shimr
  3. Jābir
  4. Abū Jaʿfar (a) whom he asked about the glance of the Angel of Death, so he said

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