يَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى
Yaqoolu yaa laitanee qaddamtu lihayaatee
He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."

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He will say as he remembers ‘O yā is for calling attention to something would that I had sent ahead good deeds and faith for my life!’ for a good life in the Hereafter or it means ‘during my life’ in the world.

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Sahih al-Bukhari #6846Narrated Abu Huraira:Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till a man passes by a grave of somebody and says, 'Would that I were in his place.' "
Sahih Muslim #7122Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:Sahih
The Last Hour would not come until a person would pass by a grave of another person and he would say: I wish it had been my abode.
Sunan Abu Dawud #5010One day when a man got up and spoke at length Amr ibn al-'As said If he had been moderate in what he said:Sahih
It would have been better for him. I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: I think (or, I have been commanded) that I should be brief in what I say, for brevity is better.
Sahih al-Bukhari #5452Narrated Al-Qasim bin Muhammad:Sahih
`Aisha, (complaining of headache) said, "Oh, my head"! Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "I wish that had happened while I was still living, for then I would ask Allah's Forgiveness for you and invoke Allah for you." Aisha said, "Wa thuklayah! By Allah, I think you want me to die; and If this should happen, you would spend the last part of the day sleeping with one of your wives!" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Nay, I should say, 'Oh my head!' I felt like sending for Abu Bakr and his son, and appoint him as my successor lest some people claimed something or some others wished something, but then I said (to myself), 'Allah would not allow it to be otherwise, and the Muslims would prevent it to be otherwise".
Sunan Ibn Majah #3901It was narrated that Harithah bin Mudarrib said:Sahih
“We came to Khabbab to visit him (when he was sick), and he said: ‘I have been sick for a long time, and were it not that I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “Do not wish for death,” I would have wished for it.’ And he said: “A person will be rewarded for all his spending, except for (what he spends) on dust,” or he said, “on building.”

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