To what extent is the hadith sound which indicates that the Angel of Death visits people every day, and that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, spoke to the Angel of Death concerning a believer, and in it is the saying of the Angel of Death: "Indeed, we have a return to you after every return, so beware, beware! And there is no household, whether of hair or mud, righteous or wicked, of plain or mountain, but that I examine them every day and night, until I know their young and old better than they know themselves"?
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The was narrated by Al-Tabarani, and it contains unknown narrators. Al-Haythami said in Majma' al-Zawa'id: "It contains Umar ibn Shamir al-Ja'fi and Al-Harith ibn al-Khazraj, and I have not found anyone who translated their biographies." Ibn al-Jawzi mentioned it in Al-'Ilal al-Mutanahiyah with another chain of narration from Ibn Abbas, part of it, and said: "This hadith is not known except through this channel, and it contains unknown narrators."
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