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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
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السيوطي:٢٣٦٩٨a –

"مَوْتُ الفَجْأَة تَخْفِيفٌ عَلى المؤمِنين، وَسَخْطَةٌ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ".  

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tabarani:8865 – Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > al-Aʿmash > a man > Abū al-Aḥwaṣ > Ibn Masʿūd

[Machine] The sudden death is a relief for the believer and grief for the disbeliever.  

الطبراني:٨٨٦٥ – حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

«مَوْتُ الْفَجْأَةِ تَخْفِيفٌ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِ وَأَسَفٌ عَلَى الْكَافِرِ»