Hadith About Suicide

What are hadiths about suicide? Examples of hadiths about suicide...

Jundub b. ʿAbd Allah (ra) said that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, “Amongst the nations before you there was a man who was wounded and, growing impatient (with its pain), he took a knife and cut his hand with it. The blood did not stop until he died. Allah said, ‘My servant hurried to bring death upon himself, so I have forbidden him (to enter) Paradise.’” (al-Bukhari, al-Anbiyaʾ, 50)

According to Anas b. Malik (ra), the Prophet (saw) said, “None of you should wish for death because of a calamity befalling him; but if he has to wish for death, he should say, ‘O, Allah! Keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and let me die if death is better for me.’” (al-Bukhari, al-Marda, 19)

According to Abu Hurayra (ra), the Prophet (saw) said, “Whoever throws himself from a mountain and kills himself, he will be in the Fire falling down into it and abiding therein forever; and whoever drinks poison and kills himself with it, he will be carrying his poison in his hand and drinking it in the Fire wherein he will abide forever; and whoever kills himself with an iron (weapon), he will be carrying that weapon in his hand and stabbing his belly with it in the Fire wherein he will abide forever.” (al-Bukhari, al-Tibb, 56)

According to Jabir b. Samura (ra), “The body of a man who had killed himself with arrow heads (mashāqiṣ) was brought to the Prophet (saw), but he did not say the funeral prayer over him.” (Muslim, al-Janaʾiz, 107)

Source: Presidency Of Religious Affairs The Turkey, Islam Through Hadiths