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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on specifying the time of a sick person's death

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Question:
This questioner who sent this question, in summary, says: Honorable Shaykh, he heard that a person in the village where he lives was sick, and when his illness worsened, they took him to a doctor for treatment. But the doctor told the patient's family that he would die after fifteen days. When that period had passed, the patient died, and the people were surprised.

Answer:
There is no evidence for specifying the time, and
tomorrow, and no soul perceives in what land it will dieغَدًا وَمَا تَدْرِي نَفْسٌ بِأَيِّ أَرْضٍ تَمُوتُ
[Luqman 31:34]
, so death is in the hand of Allah. Neither the doctor nor anyone else can specify the days. But he may say, "This illness has no cure; I do not know a treatment for it; this illness is serious," or something like that, and there is nothing wrong with that. But to specify the time of death, or to say that he must die from this illness, that is not permissible. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1849 - حكم تحديد موعد وفاة المريض - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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