Musnad Ahmad 17064

Translation

✧ A man was brought by Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and He said: 'What did you do in the world?' The man said to Him: 'I did not do even an atom's weight of good that I could hope in You for.' He said it to him three times, and on the third time he said: 'O Lord, You had given me surplus wealth in the world, and I used to deal with people, and it was my habit to overlook their debts, and I used to be easy on the rich and grant time to the poor.' So Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: 'We are more entitled to that than you. Overlook My servant.' So he was forgiven. Abu Mas'ud said: 'Thus I heard it from the mouth of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.' And another man ordered his family, when he died, to burn him, then grind him, then scatter him on a day of violent wind. They did that to him, and he was gathered to his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, who said to him: 'What made you do this?' He said: 'O Lord, there was no servant more disobedient to You than I, so I hoped to be saved.' Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: 'Overlook My servant.' So he was forgiven. Abu Mas'ud said: 'Thus I heard it from the mouth of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.'

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• Dāraquṭnī

  سئل عن حديث ربعي عن أبي مسعود قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لقي رجل ربه عز وجل فقال ماذا عملت فقال ما عملت من خير إلا أني كنت أداين الناس فأنظر الموسر وأتجاوز عن المعسر فقال الله عز وجل تجاوزوا عنه وأسرف رجل فقال عند موته إذا أنا مت فاحرقوني الحديث فقال يرويه أبو مالك الأشجعي ونعيم بن أبي هند وعبد الملك بن عمير عن ربعي عن حذيفة وأبي مسعود ووهم فيه أبو خالد الأحمر فرواه عن أبي مالك الأشجعي عن ربعي عن حذيفة وقال فيه فقال عقبة بن عامر الجهني وأبو مسعود الأنصاري هكذا سمعناه من النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم والصواب فقال عقبة بن عمرو أبو مسعود

  machine translationHe was asked about the hadith of Ribʿī from Abū Masʿūd, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "A man met his Lord, the Mighty and Majestic, and He said: What did you do? He said: I did no good except that I used to lend to people, so I would give respite to the well-off and overlook the one in difficulty. So Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, said: Overlook his faults." And "A man was extravagant (in sin) and said at the time of his death: When I die, burn me..." - the hadith. He said: It is narrated by Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī, Nuʿaym b. Abī Hind and ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmayr, from Ribʿī, from Ḥudhayfah and Abū Masʿūd. Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar made an error (wahima) in it: he narrated it from Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī, from Ribʿī, from Ḥudhayfah, and said in it: ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir al-Juhanī and Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī said: "This is how we heard it from the Prophet ﷺ." The correct version is: ʿUqbah b. ʿAmr Abū Masʿūd said. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17269

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Masʿūd al-Badrī

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 40 AH, or before it or after it, or: 41 AH, or: 42 AH
   أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ الْبَدْرِيُّصحابي جليل
   عن
2. 2
   Ribʿī b. Ḥirāsh al-ʿAbsī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Saʿd said: after al-Jamājim, during al-Ḥajjāj's governorship, Abū ʿUbayd said: 100 AH. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr said: 101 AH. Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī: 104 AH
   رِبْعِيِّ بْنِ حِرَاشٍثقة عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 140 AH approximately
   أَبُو مَالِكٍثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .
   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

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