[Machine] Abdullah al-Hafiz and his father informed Abu al-Abbas al-Mahbubi, who narrated that Sa'id bin Mas'ud narrated from al-Nadr bin Shumail, who informed Shu'bah from Sa'd bin Ibrahim, who said: "I heard Urwah bin Zubair say that Aisha said, 'We used to hear that a Prophet does not die until he is given the choice between this world and the hereafter.' Aisha said, 'And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said in his illness in which he died, "With those whom Allah has blessed among the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous - and excellent are those as companions." (Quran 4:69) Aisha said, 'So I assumed that he was given the choice between this world and the hereafter."  

عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ أنبأ أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ الْمَحْبُوبِيُّ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ ثنا النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍ أنبأ شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عُرْوَةَ بْنَ الزُّبَيْرِ قَالَ قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ ؓ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَنَّ نَبِيًّا لَا يَمُوتُ حَتَّى يُخَيَّرَ بَيْنَ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ قَالَتْ وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي وَجَعِهِ الَّذِي تُوُفِّيَ فِيهِ أَخَذَتْهُ بُحَّةٌ فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ {مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاءِ وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَئِكَ رَفِيقًا} [النساء 69] قَالَتْ فَظَنَنْتُهُ خُيِّرَ بَيْنَ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ