Chapter 115
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 115
What to say upon being told of the death of an enemy of Islam
Arabic
Romanisation
Al-ḥamdu li-llāhi-lladhī naṣara ‘abdahu wa a‘azza dīnah.
Context
WE RELATE IN the book of Ibn as-Sunnī from ‘Abdullāh ibn Mas‘ūd 
who reported: “I came to the Messenger of Allah 
and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, Allah 
has killed Abū Jahl.’ He said: ‘Praise be to Allah, Who has helped His servant and given glory to His religion.’” [1].
References
[1] Ibn as-Sunnī (567). The narrators are those of the Ṣaḥīḥ, except that Abū ‘Ubaydah ibn ‘Abdullāh ibn Mas‘ūd did not hear hadiths from his father. Al-Futūḥāt (4/125).