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78 salutations and to say, "Verily to God belongs what He has taken, and to Him belongs what He has given, and everyone has a fixed time with him. Therefore let her have patience and consider." Then she sent to him adjuring him that he must certainly come to her. And he rose up, and with him were Saʿd bin ʿUbádah and Muʿádh bin Jabal and Ubai bin Kaʿb and Zaid bin Thábit and other men. And the child was lifted up for the Apostle of God, and his life was flickering away. And the Apostle's eyes overflowed with tears, and Saʿd said, "O Apostle of God, what is this!" He replied, "This is compassion which God has placed in the hearts of His servants; and verily God only compassionates those of His servants who are compassionate."'—Muslim, Al Bukhárí.

It is related from ʿAbduʾlláh bin Masʿúd that he said, 'The Apostle of God said, "That person is not one of us who beats his cheeks and rends the bosom of his garments and cries out with the cries of the time of ignorance."'—Muslim, Al Bukhárí.

It is related from Abú Hurairah that, 'The Apostle of God said, "No Muslim loses three children by death and enters the fire, except to expiate the oath (that all must enter hell)."'—Muslim, Al Bukhárí.

It is related from Abú Saʿíduʾl-Khudri that he said, 'The Apostle of God cursed the woman who made lamentation (for the dead), and he cursed the one who listened to her.'—Abú Dáud.

It is related from Abú Barzah that, 'The Apostle of God said, "He who comforts a woman bereft of her children, will be clothed with the cloak of a derwish in paradise."'—At Tirmidhí.

It is related from Al Mughíra bin Shuʿbah that he said, 'I heard the Apostle of God say, "He over whom lamentation is made will be punished at the day of resurrection for the lamentation made over him."'—Muslim, Al Bukhárí.

It is related from ʿAmrah bint ʿAbduʾr-Raḥmán that she said, 'I heard ʿÁyesha say—when it was mentioned to her that ʿAbduʾllah bin ʿOmar had said that the dead would certainly be punished for the lamentations of the living over them—"God forgive the father of ʿAbduʾr-Raḥmán. Beware! he did not lie, but he forgot or he made a slip. The facts were these; the