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bukhari:6419 – ʿAbd al-Salām b. Muṭahhar > ʿUmar b. ʿAlī > Maʿn b. Muḥammad al-Ghifārī > Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī > Abū Hurayrah

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Allah will not accept the excuse of any person ˹for his heedlessness˺ whose time of death is delayed until he reaches the age of sixty years."  

البخاري:٦٤١٩ – حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ السَّلاَمِ بْنُ مُطَهَّرٍ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ مَعْنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْغِفَارِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: «أَعْذَرَ اللَّهُ إِلَى امْرِئٍ أَخَّرَ أَجَلَهُ حَتَّى بَلَّغَهُ سِتِّينَ سَنَةً»  

تَابَعَهُ أَبُو حَازِمٍ وَابْنُ عَجْلاَنَ عَنِ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ

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suyuti:3484a –

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Allah will not accept the excuse of any person whose instant of death is delayed till he is sixty years of age." (Using translation from Bukhārī 6419)   

السيوطي:٣٤٨٤a –

"أَعْذَرَ الله إلَى امرئٍ أخَّر أجلَه، حتَّى بلغَ ستِّين سنةً".  

[خ] البخاري عن أبي هريرة