On the authority of Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Do not call for death or wish for it. Whoever must call for it, let him say: 'O Allah, keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and take me in death when death is better for me.'" (1)

1823 - Muhammad ibn Bashshar informed us, saying: Yahya ibn Sa'id narrated to us, saying: Isma'il narrated to us, saying: Qays narrated to me, saying:
I entered upon Khabbab, and he had been cauterized on his belly seven times, and he said: "Were it not that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade us from calling for death, I would have called for it." (2)

Chapter 3: The Abundance of Mentioning Death

1824 - Al-Husayn ibn Hurayth informed us, saying: Al-Fadl ibn Musa informed us, on the authority of Muhammad ibn 'Amr. And Muhammad ibn 'Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak informed us, saying: Yazid narrated to us, saying: Muhammad informed us.

(1) A sound hadith, and this chain is good because of Hafs ibn 'Abdullah, who is Ibn Rashid al-Sulami. Yunus is Ibn 'Ubayd, and Thabit is Ibn Aslam al-Bunani. It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (1961).
It was also recorded by Ahmad (12664), (13020), (13165), and (13579), al-Bukhari (6571), and Muslim (2680): (10) via multiple paths from Thabit, with this chain.
It has preceded in the two earlier ones.

(2) Its chain is sound. Yahya ibn Sa'id is al-Qattan, Isma'il is Ibn Abi Khalid, and Qays is Ibn Abi Hazim. It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (1962).
It was also recorded by Ahmad (21079) and (27216), al-Bukhari (6349) and (6350) via the path of Yahya ibn Sa'id with this chain.
It was also recorded by Ahmad (21059), (21069), and (21070), al-Bukhari (5672), (6430), and (7234), and Muslim (2681) via multiple paths from Isma'il, with it.
It was also recorded by Ahmad (21054) and (21072), al-Tirmidhi (2483), and Ibn Majah (4163) via the path of Harithah ibn Mudarrib, from Khabbab, with it.