What is the manner of responding in a condolence? Is there a specific supplication for condolence?
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The questioner : ... Is this its place? In the condolence.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : If one of his [relatives] dies ... during the condolence, [one says] "Praise be to Allah in all circumstances."
The Shaykh : Good; the condolence is a calamity.
The questioner : ... Hadith:Mishkat al-Masabih 2493 ?
The Shaykh : Yes, but it is weak.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : There is no specific dhikr in the Sunnah for condolence, but we see the use of what came in "al-Sahihayn" that one of the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) daughters— and I think it was Zaynab— sent to him that her son was on the verge of death, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent her a condolence saying:Sahih al-Bukhari 7377. So if we place the one who is on the verge of losing his beloved and child in the position of the one who has been struck, this is the condolence; so there is nothing— as far as we know— from the established Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that replaces it.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : If one of his [relatives] dies ... during the condolence, [one says] "Praise be to Allah in all circumstances."
The Shaykh : Good; the condolence is a calamity.
The questioner : ... Hadith:
Praise be to God in all circumstances. I seek refuge in God from the state of those who go to hell.
الحمد لله على كل حال ، ونعوذ بالله من حال أهل النارThe Shaykh : Yes, but it is weak.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : There is no specific dhikr in the Sunnah for condolence, but we see the use of what came in "al-Sahihayn" that one of the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) daughters— and I think it was Zaynab— sent to him that her son was on the verge of death, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent her a condolence saying:
that whatever Allah takes is His, and whatever He gives is His, and everything with Him has a limited fixed term (in this world). So order her to be patient and hope for Allah's reward.
إن لله ما أخذ ، ولله ما أعطى ، وكل شيء عنده بأجل مسمَّى ؛ فلتصبري ولتحتسبي
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