Ḥammād ibn Salamah said: While performing the night prayer, Thābit recited the verse, “Have you disbelieved in the One Who created you from dust, then from a drop of fluid, and then fashioned you into a man?” (al-Kahf 18:37); he sobbed and kept repeating it.
Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah said: I saw Thābit wearing costly clothes, flowing cloaks, and turbans.
Mubārak ibn Faḍālah said: I visited Thābit, and he exclaimed, “My brothers, I was unable last night to pray as I usually do, nor could I fast, nor even go down to meet my companions and share remembrance with them. O Allah, since You have withheld all that from me, do not leave me in this world for even a moment!” (1)
92 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-ʿĀmirī * (ʿ)
The imam, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī, al-ʿĀmirī, Madinan—one of the reliable authorities.
He narrated on the authority of Abū Ḥumayd al-Sāʿidī—together with ten other Companions—in the description of the Prophet’s prayer (2); and from Abū Hurayrah, Abū Qatādah, Ibn ʿAbbās, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, and many others.
= Authentic.
Al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Hibban (nos. 1395 and 1924) also graded the report sahih. Abu Dawud (3874) relates from Abu al-Darda that the Messenger of Allah said: “Allah has sent down the illness and the remedy, and for every illness He has appointed a remedy; seek medical treatment, but do not treat yourselves with what is unlawful.” Its chain of transmission is strong.
(1) The Prophet expressly forbade wishing for death. Al-Bukhari, 10/107-108, and Muslim, no. 2680, narrate from Anas ibn Malik that the Messenger of Allah said: “None of you should wish for death because of a calamity that has befallen him. If he must do so, let him say: ‘O Allah, keep me alive so long as life is better for me, and take me when death is better for me.’”
(*) Tabaqat Khalifah, p. 263; al-Tarikh al-Kabir 1/189; al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil 8/29; Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 1251; Tarikh al-Islam 4/300; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 9/373; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 354; Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/144.
(2) His narration appears in al-Bukhari 2/252, 255, in the chapter “Description of the Prayer,” under the heading “The sunnah of sitting during the tashahhud,” from Muhammad ibn ‘Amr ibn ‘Ata, who was sitting with a group of the Prophet’s Companions—ten according to Abu Dawud’s version—when they discussed the prayer of the Messenger of Allah. Abu Humayd al-Sa‘idi said, “I know the prayer of Allah’s Messenger better than any of you; I saw him when he …”