Musnad Ahmad 16579

Translation

✧ I used to serve the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and attend to his needs throughout my day, until the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed the last evening prayer. Then I would sit at his door when he entered his house, saying: “Perhaps some need may arise for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.” I would keep hearing the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “Glory be to Allah, glory be to Allah, glory be to Allah and with His praise,” until I would grow weary and return, or sleep would overcome me and I would lie down. He said: One day he said to me, seeing my light service and my serving him: “Ask me, O Rabi'a, and I will give you.” He said: I said: “Let me look into my affair, O Messenger of Allah, then I will tell you.” He said: So I thought to myself and I realized that this world is cut off and passing away, and that I have a provision in it that will suffice me and come to me. He said: So I said: “I will ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for my hereafter, for he is from Allah, Mighty and Majestic, in the station that he is in.” He said: So I came to him and he said: “What have you decided, O Rabi'a?” He said: I said: “Yes, O Messenger of Allah, I ask you to intercede for me with your Lord that He may free me from the Fire.” He said: “Who commanded you to ask this, O Rabi'a?” He said: I said: “No, by the One who sent you with the truth, no one commanded me to do it, but when you said: ‘Ask me and I will give you,’ and you were from Allah in the station that you are in, I looked into my affair and I realized that this world is cut off and passing away, and that I have a provision in it that will come to me, so I said: I will ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for my hereafter.” He said: So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was silent for a long time. Then he said to me: “I will do it, so help me against your own self with much prostration.”

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Sahih Muslim 489Sunan Abi Dawud 1320Sunan an-Nasa'i 1138

Narrators

1. 1
   Rabīʿah b. Kaʿb al-Aslamī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī), one of the People of the Bench (Ahl al-Ṣuffah)d. 63 AH or: 73 AH
   رَبِيعَةُ بْنُ كَعْبٍ الْأَسْلَمِيُّصحابي ، من أهل الصفة
   عن
2. 2
   Nuʿaym b. ʿAbdullāh al-Mujmir

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 121 AH
   نُعَيْمِ بْنِ مُجْمِرٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAṭāʾ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 120 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَطَاءٍثقة
   حدثني
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Isḥāq

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AH
   ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدر
   عن
5. 5
   Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
   أَبِيثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yaʿqūb

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AH
   يَعْقُوبُثقة فاضل .
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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

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