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86 – I was informed by Bakr ibn Sulaymān al-Ṣawwāf, who said: “We visited Mālik ibn Anas on the very evening he passed away. We asked, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, how are you feeling?’ He replied, ‘I do not know what to say to you, except that tomorrow you will witness such forgiveness from Allah as you had never imagined.’ He added, ‘We had not yet left before we closed his eyes.’”
٨٦ - حُدِّثْتُ عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ الصَّوَّافِ، قَالَ: " دَخَلْنَا عَلَى مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ فِي الْعَشِيَّةِ الَّتِي قُبِضَ فِيهَا فَقُلْنَا: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، كَيْفَ تَجِدُكَ؟ قَالَ: " مَا أَدْرِي مَا أَقُولُ لَكُمْ إِلَّا أَنَّكُمْ سَتُعَايِنُونَ غَدًا مِنْ عَفْوِ اللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ لَكُمْ فِي حِسَابٍ قَالَ: ثُمَّ مَا بَرِحْنَا حَتَّى أَغْمَضْنَاهُ "