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Ibn `Umar radhi Allaahu anhu said, “After `Umar was stabbed, I placed his head on my lap. He said, ‘Place my head on the ground.’ Thinking that that was simply restlessness on his part, I did not do as he asked. Then he said, ‘Place my cheek on the ground - may you have no mother! Woe upon me, and woe upon my mother, if Allaah `Azza wa Jall does not forgive me.’”

And when Umar ibn al-Khattaab radhi’Allaahu anhu was in the final moments of his life, al-Mughirah bin Shu’bah radhi Allaahu anhu said to him, “Congratulations to you for Paradise, O Leader of the Believers.” Though one should not say such statements to someone while he is healthy, it is recommended to do so when someone is dying, so as to help him have good thoughts about Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala.

“O Ibn Umm al-Mughirah,” `Umar radhi Allaahu anhu said, “And what makes you know (that I will enter Paradise)? By the One Who has my soul in His Hand, if I possessed all that is in the east and in the west, I would have ransomed it all to be saved from the terror of the beginning [of Judgement Day (and that which happens during it in terms of accountability)].”

[Min Qasas as-Saaliheen]
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Subhan’Allaah… what have we prepared for that Day… may Allaah protect us from the punishment of the grave and hellfire, and Grant us Jannat al-Firdaus, ameeen.