Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ ٠ِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) يَقُولُ إِنَّ الْ٠َاتَ بَعَثَ الله ٠َلَكاً إِلَى أَوْجَعِ أَهْلِهِ فَ٠َسَحَ عَلَى قَلْبِهِ فَأَنْسَاهُ لَوْعَةَ الْحُزْنِ وَلَوْ لاَ ذَلِكَ لَ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ‘Uthman ibn ‘Isa from Mehran ibn Muhammad who has said the following: “I heard abu ’Abd Allah (a.s.), say, ‘When a person dies, Allah sends an angel to the most distressed person of his family. The angel wipes the heart of that person to forget the pain of his sorrow and grief.

Were this not to happen, the world would cease to develop or gain anything.” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/190))