The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to us during the illness in which he died, while we were in the mosque, with his head wrapped in a cloth. He made his way toward the pulpit and settled upon it, and we followed him.He said, "By the One in whose hand my soul rests, I can see the Pond from this very place where I stand."Then he said, "A servant has been offered the world and its adornments, and he has chosen the Hereafter."No one understood what he meant except Abu Bakr, whose eyes filled with tears and he wept. Then he said, "Rather, may we ransom you with our fathers, our mothers, ourselves, and our wealth, Messenger of Allah."Then he descended from the pulpit, and never stood upon it again until this hour.
خرج علينا رسول الله ﷺ في مرضه الذي مات فيه ونحن في المسجد عاصبا رأسه بخرقة حتى أهوى نحو المنبر، فاستوى عليه واتبعناه قال: والذي نفسي بيده إني لأنظر إلى الحوض من مقامى هذا. ثم قال: إن عبدا عرضت عليه الدنيا وزينتها فاختار الآخرة. قال: فلم يفطن لها أحد غير أبي بكر، فذرفت عيناه فبكى ثم قال: بل نفديك بآبائنا وأمهاتنا وأنفسنا وأموالنا يا رسول الله. قال: ثم هبط فما قام عليه حتى الساعة.
This was narrated by Darimi (78) and Ibn Hibban (6593), both from the hadith of Anis bin Abu Yahya, from his father, from Abu Saeed, and he related it. Its chain is hasan because of Abu Yahya, who is Samaan Aslami, their client, of Madinah. Nasai said, "There is no harm in him."Something of the same meaning was also narrated from Abu Muwayhibah, the freedman of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, in a long hadith. This was narrated by Ahmad (15996, 15997), Tabarani in al-Kabir (22/871), Bazzar in al-Kashf (863), Hakim (3/55–56), and Darimi (79), all through routes from Abu Muwayhibah, and he related it. But there is significant disagreement in its chain, along with weakness and errors that occur in it, which Daraqutni, Ibn Hajar, and others have pointed out.Something of the same meaning was also narrated from Ibn Abu Mualla, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave a sermon one day and said, "A man was given the choice by his Lord between living in this world as long as he wished, eating from it whatever he wished, and meeting his Lord, so he chose to meet his Lord, and Abu Bakr wept," and he related it in a long hadith.This was narrated by Tirmidhi in his Sunan (3659) and in Ilal al-Kabir (419), by Ahmad (15922), and by Tahawi in Mushkil Athar (1006), all from the hadith of Abu Awana, from Abdul-Malik bin Umayr, from Ibn Abu Mualla, and he related it. Tirmidhi said, "hasan gharib," and in one copy, "gharib" alone. It has been reported from Bukhari in al-Ilal that he said, "They are confused about this hadith. It is reported from Abu Awana differently from this, and I do not know the name of Abu Mualla."I say, moreover, none of the narrators from Ibn Abu Mualla has been mentioned except Abdul-Malik bin Umayr, and no one has verified him as reliable, so he is "unknown."