The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came in to visit Abu Salama after his eyes had become fixed in death. He closed them and said, "When the soul is taken, the sight follows it."Some of his family began to wail, so he said, "Do not pray for yourselves anything but good, for the angels say amen to whatever you say."Then he said, "O Allah, forgive Abu Salama, raise his rank among those who are rightly guided, succeed him in his offspring among those who remain, and forgive us and him, Lord of the worlds. Make his grave spacious for him and fill it with light."
دخل رسول الله ﷺ على أبي سلمة وقد شق بصره، فأغمضه ثم قال: إن الروح إذا قبض تبعه البصر. فضح ناس من أهله، فقال: لا تدعوا على أنفسكم إلا بخير، فإن الملائكة يؤمنون على ما تقولون ثم قال: اللهم اغفر لأبي سلمة وارفع درجته في المهديين، واخلفه في عقبه في الغابرين، واغفر لنا وله يا رب العالمين، وافسح له في قبره، ونور له فيه.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Funerals (7:920) from Zuhayr bin Harb, who said, Muawiya bin Amr told us, who said, Abu Ishaq Fazari told us, from Khalid Haddan, from Abu Qilaba, from Qabisa bin Zuayb, from Umm Salama, and he mentioned it.