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What is the authenticity of the scholars' estimation that the pain of the soul's ascent is equivalent to 3,000 sword strokes?

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There is no narrated report or statement from scholars that specifies the pain of the soul's departure as being equivalent to three thousand sword strikes. However, there are narrations that describe the pain of the soul's departure with other numbers of sword strikes, such as: "It is like the measure of three hundred sword strikes," and "The least tugs of death are like a hundred sword strikes," and "The handling by the Angel of Death is more severe than a thousand sword strikes." Al-Albani has deemed the Marfu' (elevated) hadiths in this chapter as weak.

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