Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said, "None of you should wish for death because of a calamity befalling him; but if he has to wish for death, he should say: "O Allah! Keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and let me die if death is better for me.' "
— Sahih Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 70: Patients, Hadith #575
Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said, "None of you should wish for death because of a calamity befalling him; but if he has to wish for death, he should say: "O Allah! Keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and let me die if death is better for me.' "
This hadith is from the book of Patients in Sahih Bukhari, compiled by Imam al-Bukhari. It is hadith number 575 in book 70 of volume 7.
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