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Fortress of the Muslim · Chapter 52 of 132
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Prompt the dying person to say:
لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ
La ilaha illallah
There is no deity except Allah.
The Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever's last words are 'There is no deity except Allah' will enter Paradise."
Source Sunan Abī Dāwūd 3116 Ṣaḥīḥ · Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, The Book of Prayer - Funerals — site no. 2010 Ṣaḥīḥ
Compiler cites Abū Dāwūd 3/190; see al-Albānī, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ 5/432
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