The question

Is the account true which mentions that the Angel of Death wept when he took the soul of a woman who was alone with her infant in the desert, then laughed many years later when he took the soul of the same infant, who had by then become a very old man?

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This story is not mentioned in the books, but its meaning is true: the older a person gets, two things grow with him: the love of wealth and the prolongation of hope, as stated in Al-Bukhari on the authority of Anas ibn Malik and Abu Hurairah.

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Is the account true which mentions that the Angel of Death wept when he took the soul of a woman who was alone with her infant in the desert, then laughed many years later when he took the soul of the same infant, who had by then become a very old man?

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