‘Amr bin ‘Aaas [may Allaah be Pleased with him]
used to say, “I find it strange that people die and then come back from death,
but are unable to describe death to us.”
(TN: similar to what is known as the Lazarus
phenomenon by doctors today).
When ‘Amr was on his deathbed, his son
‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr asked, “Oh my father! You always used to say, “I find it
strange that people die and then come back from death, but are unable to
describe death to us” so describe death to us!”
He replied, “My son! Death is too swift to
describe. However, I can describe some of what I have experienced. I felt as if Mount
Radwah[1]
was placed on the back of my neck, as if the thorns of palm
trees were placed throughout my body and that my soul was being squeezed through the eye of a needle.”
At-Tabaqaat al-Kubraa of Ibn Sa’d (No. 5311)
At-Tabaqaat al-Kubraa of Ibn Sa’d (No. 5311)
[1] A famous mountain in the city of Yanbu’
slightly west of al-Madeenah. It measures to be around 2170m high.
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