Sahih al-Bukhari 6417

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ drew a square and then drew a line in the middle of it and let it extend outside the square and then drew several small lines attached to that central line, and said, "This is the human being, and this, (the square) in his lease of life, encircles him from all sides (or has encircled him), and this (line), which is outside (the square), is his hope, and these small lines are the calamities and troubles (which may befall him), and if one misses him, an-other will snap (i.e. overtake) him, and if the other misses him, a third will snap (i.e. overtake) him."

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Riyadhus Shalihin 576- وعن ابن مسعود رضي الله عنه قال: خط النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم خطا مربعا، وخط خطاً فى الوسط خارجاً منه، وخط خططاً صغاراً إلى هذا الذى فى الوسط من جانبه الذى فى الوسط، فقال: “هذا الإنسان، وهذا أجله محيطا به -أو قد أحاط به- وهذا الذى هو خارج أ

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2454Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2870Sahih Ibn Hibban 2998al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6601Musnad al-Bazzar 7279al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11791

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   al-Rabīʿ b. Khuthaym al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 61 AH, or 63 AH, or 64 AH
   رَبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍثقة عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Mundhir al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah)
   مُنْذِرٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   his father

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 125 AH or 126 AH or 127 AH or 128 AH
   أَبِيثقة
   حدثني
5. 5
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   عن
6. 6
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   Ṣadaqah b. al-Faḍl

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Ibn Ḥajar said: 223 AH, or 226 AH
   صَدَقَةُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِثقة
   حدثنا
8. 8
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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

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riyad 576Mishkat al-Masabih 5268