AL-TA'ZIYAH (GIVING CONDOLENCES)
On the authority of Qurrah al-Muzanī (رضي الله عنه) who said:
"When the Prophet of Allāh (ﷺ) would sit,
a group of his companions would sit with him.
Among them was a man who had a small son who would come from behind him and he would sit him
in front of him. [The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him,
'Do you love him?'
He said: 'O Messenger of Allāh,
may Allāh love you like I love him.]
The boy (later died), and the man stopped attending the sitting due to him constantly remembering his son, and he became very grief-stricken. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked about him and said,
'Why is it that I do not see so and so?' They said,
'O Messenger of Allāh, his son that you saw died.'
So the Prophet (ﷺ) met him and asked about his son, so he informed him that he died. (The Prophet) consoled him regarding his son, then said:
'O so and so, what is more beloved to you,
that you enjoy your son during your life,
or that you do not come tomorrow (in the Hereafter)
to one of the gates of Jannah, except that you find
that he already preceded you and opens it for you?'
He said: 'O Prophet of Allāh, rather (I wish)
that he precedes me to the gate of Jannah and opens it for me. Verily, this is more beloved to me.'
He (the Prophet) said: 'Then this is for you.'
So a man [from the Ansār] said, 'O Messenger of Allāh [may Allāh ransom me for you], is this for him specifically or for all of us?'
He said, 'Rather, it is for all of you.'"
An Abridgment of the Rulings & Regulations Pertaining to The Funeral Rights
By Shaykh Muhammad Nāsir al-Dīn al-Albānī
Translated by Abū Suhayl Anwar Wright
Hikmah Publications
P. 127, 128