Narrated Qais: We went to pay a visit to Khabbab bin Al-Art and he had got himself branded at seven spots over his body. He said, "If Allah's Apostle had not forbidden us to invoke Allah for death, I would have invoked for it."
— Sahih Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 90: Wishes, Hadith #340
Narrated Qais: We went to pay a visit to Khabbab bin Al-Art and he had got himself branded at seven spots over his body. He said, "If Allah's Apostle had not forbidden us to invoke Allah for death, I would have invoked for it."
This hadith is from the book of Wishes in Sahih Bukhari, compiled by Imam al-Bukhari. It is hadith number 340 in book 90 of volume 9.
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