Musnad Ahmad 22377
Thawban, the freed servant of the Prophet ﷺ
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حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْأَوْزَاعِيَّ يَقُولُ حَدَّثَنِي الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ الْمُعَيْطِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي مَعْدَانُ بْنُ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ الْيَعْمُرِيُّ قَالَ
لَقِيتُ ثَوْبَانَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقُلْتُ: أَخْبِرْنِي بِعَمَلٍ أَعْمَلُهُ يُدْخِلُنِي اللهُ بِهِ الْجَنَّةَ - أَوْ: قَالَ: قُلْتُ: بِأَحَبِّ الْأَعْمَالِ إِلَى اللهِ - فَسَكَتَ، ثُمَّ سَأَلْتُهُ فَسَكَتَ، ثُمَّ سَأَلْتُهُ الثَّالِثَةَ، فَقَالَ: سَأَلْتُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: عَلَيْكَ بِكَثْرَةِ السُّجُودِ؛ فَإِنَّكَ لَا تَسْجُدُ لِلهِ سَجْدَةً إِلَّا رَفَعَكَ اللهُ بِهَا دَرَجَةً، وَحَطَّ عَنْكَ بِهَا خَطِيئَةً
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Chain of narrators
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- al-Awzāʿī
- al-Walīd b. Hishām al-Muʿayṭī
- Maʿdān b. Abū Ṭalḥah al-Yaʿmurī
✧ I met Thawban, the freed servant of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I said: “Tell me of a deed I can do by which Allah will admit me into Paradise” – or he said: “I said: ‘of the deeds most beloved to Allah’” – and he remained silent. Then I asked him again and he remained silent. Then I asked him a third time, and he said: “I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about that, and he said: ‘You must perform many prostrations, for you do not prostrate to Allah with a prostration except that Allah raises you by it a degree and removes from you by it a sin.’”
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