The Prophet of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, urged those who have been afflicted with trials to console themselves by remembering the biggest of calamities, and that is, losing him, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam

“The Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, opened a door that was between him and the people, or he uncovered a curtain between himself and the people, and found that the people were praying behind Abu Bakr. He thanked Allah for the good state that he saw them in, and hoped that Allah would succeed him with the one that he saw them with (or with the situation that he saw them in). Then he, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said: ‘O people, whoever among the people or among the believers is stricken with a calamity, then let them console themselves with the loss of me during the calamity one faces with anyone else, because none from my nation will face a calamity worse than the calamity of my death.’”