Musnad Ahmad 17784

Translation

✧ When God [Mighty and Majestic] wills good for a servant, He sweetens him (ʿassalahu).” It was said: And what is His sweetening of him? He said: “God [Mighty and Majestic] opens for him a righteous deed before his death, then takes him while he is upon it.

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What scholars said about it

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

  وفيه بقية وقد صرح بالسماع في المسند وبقية رجاله ثقات

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17995

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū ʿInabah al-Khawlānī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. during ʿAbd al-Malik's caliphate, also said: 118 AH
   أَبُو عِنَبَةَ الْخَوْلَانِيُّصحابي
   حدثني
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. Ziyād al-Alhānī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 131 AH and 140 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ الْأَلْهَانِيِّثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Baqiyyah

   truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AH
   بَقِيَّةُصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاء
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Surayj

   trustworthy (thiqah), makes occasional mistakes (yahimu qalīlan)d. 217 AH or 229 AH
   سُرَيْجُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِثقة يهم قليلا
   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.