The Book of Asceticism · Hadith 149 (#Ḥadīth #7)

الحسين بن علوان عن عمرو بن شمر عن جابر عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام قال: سألته عن لحظة ملك الموت عليه السلام قال: ما رأيت القوم يكونون جلوسا فتعتريهم السكتة فما يتكلم أحد منهم؟ فتلك لحظة ملك الموت عليه السلام حين يلحظهم.

Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUlwān narrated from ʿAmr ibn Shimr, from Jābir, from Abū Jaʿfar whom he asked about the glance of the Angel of Death, so he said “When you see a group of people sitting together and then they are suddenly afflicted by [temporary] speechlessness, so none of them says anything, that is the moment in which the Angel of Death glances at them.”

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).