سورة الجمعة

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Abd al-A'la said: Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) was narrating a hadith to me. I said to him, "May I be your ransom! Did you not just now suppose (za'amta) such and such about me?" He said, "No." This weighed heavily on me, so I said, "Yes, by Allah, you did suppose it." He said, "No, by Allah, I did not suppose it." He (the narrator) said: This weighed heavily on me, so I said to him, "May I be your ransom! Yes, by Allah, you did say it." He said, "Yes, I did say it. But do you not know that every za'm (supposition) in the Quran is a lie?"

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): In the Torah it is written that the friends of Allah wish for death.

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Imam Ali (peace be upon him) at Siffin used to ride between the two ranks [without armour and] in the garment worn beneath the armour. Imam Hasan (peace be upon him) said: "This is not the dress of war." He said: "O my son! Your father does not care whether he goes to death or death comes to him." And he used to say: "He does not wait for the most wretched of them (Ibn Muljam) to dye his face with blood [flowing] from the top of his head; [rather he is ready for martyrdom every moment]." And when Ibn Muljam struck [him on] his head, he said: "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, I have succeeded." Allah the Exalted [regarding the longing for death] said: قُلْ یا أَیُّهَا الَّذِینَ هادُوا إِنْ زَعَمْتُمْ أَنَّکُمْ أَوْلِیاءُ لِلهِ مِنْ دُونِ النَّاسِ فَتَمَنَّوُا الْموْتَ إِنْ کُنْتُمْ صادِقین [Say: O you who are Jews, if you think that you are the favorites of Allah to the exclusion of other people, then invoke death if you are truthful].

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Ibrahim ibn Ishaq al-Ahmari in a marfu' hadith narrated that Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said: O people! Everyone will meet, in his flight, that from which he flees. The end of one's life is [the scene of] the driving of the soul towards it [and compelling it to death], and fleeing from death is coming towards it..."

Imam al-Askari (peace be upon him): قُلْ یا أَیُّهَا الَّذِینَ هادُوا إِنْ زَعَمْتُمْ أَنَّکُمْ أَوْلِیاءُ لِلهِ مِنْ دُونِ النَّاسِ فَتَمَنَّوُا الْموْتَ إِنْ کُنْتُمْ صادِقین [Say: O you who are Jews, if you think that you are the favorites of Allah to the exclusion of other people, then invoke death if you are truthful]. The Jews said: "O Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family)! If your prayer is answered, then pray for this son of our chief so that Allah may cure him of leprosy (baras)." The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said: "O Abu al-Hasan (peace be upon him)! Call upon Allah for his cure." So he prayed and he was cured and became the most handsome of people, and he uttered the two testimonies (shahadatayn). Then his father said: "This [cure of my son] coincided with his health [that he had before; so if your prayer is answered], invoke a curse against me." So he said: "O Allah! Afflict him with the affliction of his son." As a result, he was immediately struck with leprosy and elephantiasis, and for forty years he [was] a sign for the worlds.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): If they had wished for death, they would all have died, to the very last of them.