Narrated Anas: Allah's Apostle said," None of you should long for death because of a calamity that had befallen him, and if he cannot, but long for death, then he should say, 'O Allah! Let me live as long as life is better for me, and take my life if death is better for me.' "
— Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 75: Invocations, Hadith #362
Narrated Anas: Allah's Apostle said," None of you should long for death because of a calamity that had befallen him, and if he cannot, but long for death, then he should say, 'O Allah! Let me live as long as life is better for me, and take my life if death is better for me.' "
This hadith is from the book of Invocations in Sahih Bukhari, compiled by Imam al-Bukhari. It is hadith number 362 in book 75 of volume 8.
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