al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2917
✧ Expiation for illness, reward of the sick, and that the believer is afflicted so his reward may increase
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ، قَالَ:
كُنْتُ جَالِسًا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَتَبَسَّمَ، فَقُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مِمَّ تَبَسَّمْتَ ؟ قَالَ: « عَجِبْتُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ وَجَزَعِهِ مِنَ السَّقَمِ، وَلَوْ يَعْلَمُ مَا لَهُ فِي السَّقَمِ لَأَحَبَّ أَنْ يَكُونَ سَقِيمًا حَتَّى يَلْقَى رَبَّهُ ». ثُمَّ تَبَسَّمَ الثَّانِيَةَ وَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهَا، فَقَالُوا: مِمَّ تَبَسَّمْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ: « عَجِبْتُ لِمَلَكَيْنِ نَزَلَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ يَلْتَمِسَانِ مُؤْمِنًا فِي مُصَلَّاهُ الَّذِي كَانَ يُصَلِّي فِيهِ، فَلَمْ يَجِدَاهُ، فَعَرَجَا إِلَى اللهِ تَعَالَى، فَقَالَا: يَا رَبِّ إِنَّ عَبْدَكَ فُلَانًا كُنَّا نَكْتُبُ لَهُ مِنَ الْعَمَلِ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ كَذَا وَكَذَا، وَإِنَّكَ حَبَسْتَهُ فِي حِبَالِكَ، يَعْنِي: الْمَرَضَ، فَقَالَ اللهُ تَعَالَى لَهُمَا: اكْتُبَا لِعَبْدِي مِثْلَ مَا يَعْمَلُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ وَلَيْلَةٍ، وَلَا تَنْقُصَاهُ شَيْئًا، فَلَهُ أَجْرُ مَا عَمِلَ عَلَى أَجْرِ مَا حَبَسْتَهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī
- Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥumayd
- ʿAwn b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd
- his father
- ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
✧ I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when he smiled. We said: “O Messenger of Allah, what made you smile?” He said: “I marvel at the believer and his distress at illness. If he knew what he has in illness, he would love to remain ill until he meets his Lord.” Then he smiled a second time, raised his head to the sky, and looked at it. They said: “What made you smile, O Messenger of Allah?” He said: “I marvel at two angels who descended from the sky seeking a believer in his prayer place where he used to pray, but they did not find him. They ascended to Allah Almighty and said: ‘O Lord, Your servant so-and-so, we used to record for him such-and-such deeds every day, but You have detained him in Your bonds,’ meaning illness. Allah Almighty said to them: ‘Record for My servant the like of what he used to do every day and night, and do not reduce anything from it. He shall have the reward of what he did in addition to the reward for what I have detained him with.’”
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2320Musnad al-Bazzar 1773Musnad al-Tayalisi 345Musnad al-Tayalisi 346al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2918al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 735
Narrators
- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- Deemed trustworthy by al-ʿIjlī and a groupd. 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 99 AH, which is a mistakeأَبِيهِوثقه العجلي وجماعةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. between 110 and 120 AHعَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍثقة عابدعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 151 and 160 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حُمَيْدٍضعيفحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 204 AH or 205 AHأَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّثقةأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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