When death approaches any of you , ( take ) witnesses among yourselves when making bequests , - two just men of your own ( brotherhood ) or others from outside if ye are journeying through the earth , and the chance of death befalls you ( thus ) . If ye doubt ( their truth ) , detain them both after prayer , and let them both swear by Allah : " We wish not in this for any worldly gain , even though the ( beneficiary ) be our near relation : we shall hide not the evidence before Allah : if we do , then behold ! the sin be upon us ! "