Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا قَيْسٌ قَالَ أَتَيْتُ خَبَّابًا أَعُودُهُ وَقَدْ اكْتَوَى سَبْعًا فِي بَطْنِهِ وَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ لَوْلَا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَهَانَا أَنْ نَدْعُوَ بِالْمَوْتِ لَدَعَوْتُ بِهِ.
English Translation
Yahya ibn Sa'id told us, from Isma'il, Qays told us, who said: I came to Khabbab to visit him, and he had been cauterized seven times in his belly, and I heard him say: "Were it not that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade us to wish for death, I would have wished for it."