When al-Kināni was dying, he was asked: “What type of actions were you doing?”

He replied, “If I was not dying, I would not have told you.  I stood at the door of my heart for forty years, and whenever anything other than Allah passed by its door, I kept it away.”

 (al-‘Ihya, vol. 4, p. 513)

(Read on pg 71, Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Qasim, Silent Moments: The Description of Before & After Death Aspects. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2004.)