Ibn "Abbas said:
Thursday and what a Thursday! Then he wept until his tears wetted the pebbles. We said: O Abu ‘Abbas, what about Thursday? He said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) took a turn for the worse, and he said: "Come to me and I will write for you a document, so you will not go astray after I am gone." But they argued (about that), and it is not appropriate to argue in the presence of a Prophet (ﷺ). They said: What is the matter with him? Is he delirious?[1] Try to find out from him. So they kept repeating that to him, but he said: "Let me be. The state in which I am now is better than that which you want me to do." And he enjoined three things - Sufyan said: He gave instructions to do three things-and said: “Expel the mushrikeen from the Arabian Peninsula, and honour the delegations as I used to do." And Sa’eed did not mention the third thing, and I do not know if he omitted it deliberately, or on another occasion he said that he forgot it. And Sufyan said on one occasion: Either he omitted it or forgot it. [1]The speaker was reminding the people that it is impossible for a Prophet (ﷺ) to become delirious because he ma"soom (infallible), and they should have tried to ask him for clarification because he was still able to speak clearly.[Translator]
References1 variant
- Arabic/English book
- Book 25, Hadith 1935