What is the authenticity of the hadith: "Do not feign illness, lest you become ill, then die, then enter the Fire"?
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The "Do not feign illness, lest you become ill, then die, then enter Hellfire" was not narrated with this wording. What the common people mention, the addition "then die, then enter Hellfire," has no basis. The hadith with the wording "Do not feign illness, lest you become ill, and do not dig your graves, lest you die" was mentioned by Ibn Abi Hatim in Al-Ilal, and he deemed it weak, and it is not authentic.
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