Musnad Ahmad 12503

Translation

✧ When Allah tests the Muslim servant with an affliction in his body, Allah says: Write for him the reward of his righteous deeds that he used to do. If He heals him, He washes and purifies him; and if He takes him, He forgives him and has mercy on him.

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجاله ثقات

  machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 12641

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Sinān b. Rabīʿah

   truthful (ṣadūq), with some softness (layyin)d. between 131 and 140 AH
   أَبُو رَبِيعَةَصدوق فيه لين
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥammād b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   وَعَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.