When the agony of death came to Bilal, all his wife cried and said: “What a sad day!”

So he said to her, “Don’t say that! Instead say, ‘What a happy day!’ Tomorrow I will meet my beloved Messenger and his Companions.”

[Ibn Majah]

(Read on pg 147, Mohsen Shaker al-Bayoumi, Slaves of the All-Merciful. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2005.)