al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2918
✧ Expiation for illness, reward of the sick, and that the believer is afflicted so his reward may increase
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2918 2451 / 2 - وَقَالَ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حُمَيْدٍ بِهِ. هَذَا حَدِيثٌ ضَعِيفُ الْإِسْنَادِ.
« عَجِبْت لِلْمُؤْمِنِ وَجَزَعه مِنَ السَّقَمِ وَلَوْ يُعَلِّمُ مَا لَهُ فِي السَّقَمِ لِأُحِبّ أَنْ يَكُونَ سَقِيمًا حَتَّى يَلْقَى رَبّه » ثُمَّ تَبَسَّمَ الثَّانِيَة وَرَفْع رَأْسِهِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهَا فَقَالُوا مِمَّ تَبَسَّمَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ قَالَ « عَجِبْت لِمَلِكَيْنِ نَزَلَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ يَلْتَمِسَانِ مُؤْمِنًا فِي مُصَلَّاهُ الَّذِي كَانَ يُصَلِّي فِيهِ فَلَمْ يَجِدَاهُ فَعَرَجَا إِلَى اللهِ تَعَالَى فَقَالَا يَا رَبّ إِنْ عَبَدَك فُلَان كُنَّا نَكْتُبُ لَهُ مِنَ الْعَمَلِ فِي كُلِّ يَوْم كَذَا وَكَذَا وَإِنَّك حَبَسْته فِي حِبَالِك يَعْنِي الْمَرَضُ فَقَالَ اللهُ تَعَالَى لَهُمَا اكْتُبَا لِعَبْدِي مِثْلَ مَا يَعْمَل كُلُّ يَوْم وَلَيْلَة وَلَا تَنْقُصَاهُ شَيْئًا فَلَهُ أَجْرٌ مَا عَمِلَ عَلَى أَجْرٍ مَا حَبَسَتْهُ
The text that “the like of it” refers to · matalib:2917
كُنْت جَالِسًا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَتَبَسُّم فَقُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مِمَّ تَبَسَّمَتْ قَالَ « عَجِبْت لِلْمُؤْمِنِ وَجَزَعه مِنَ السَّقَمِ وَلَوْ يُعَلِّمُ مَا لَهُ فِي السَّقَمِ لِأُحِبّ أَنْ يَكُونَ سَقِيمًا حَتَّى يَلْقَى رَبّه » ثُمَّ تَبَسَّمَ الثَّانِيَة وَرَفْع رَأْسِهِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهَا فَقَالُوا مِمَّ تَبَسَّمَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ قَالَ « عَجِبْت لِمَلِكَيْنِ نَزَلَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ يَلْتَمِسَانِ مُؤْمِنًا فِي مُصَلَّاهُ الَّذِي كَانَ يُصَلِّي فِيهِ فَلَمْ يَجِدَاهُ فَعَرَجَا إِلَى اللهِ تَعَالَى فَقَالَا يَا رَبّ إِنْ عَبَدَك فُلَان كُنَّا نَكْتُبُ لَهُ مِنَ الْعَمَلِ فِي كُلِّ يَوْم كَذَا وَكَذَا وَإِنَّك حَبَسْته فِي حِبَالِك يَعْنِي الْمَرَضُ فَقَالَ اللهُ تَعَالَى لَهُمَا اكْتُبَا لِعَبْدِي مِثْلَ مَا يَعْمَل كُلُّ يَوْم وَلَيْلَة وَلَا تَنْقُصَاهُ شَيْئًا فَلَهُ أَجْرٌ مَا عَمِلَ عَلَى أَجْرٍ مَا حَبَسَتْهُ
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Chain of narrators
- al-Ṭayālisī
- Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥumayd Bih Hadhā Ḥadīth Ḍaʿīf al-Isnād Mtnmkhfy Rbṭ26029561 Nṣkunt Jālis ʿInd Rasūl Allāh ﷺ Fatabassum Faqulnā Yā Rasūl Allāh Mim Tabassamat
✧ “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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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذا حديث ضعيف الإسناد
machine translationThis is a hadith with a weak (ḍaʿīf) chain of narration.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2918
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2320Musnad al-Tayalisi 345Musnad al-Tayalisi 346al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2917al-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 mistakeعبد الله بن عتبة بن مسعودوثقه العجلي وجماعةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. between 110 and 120 AHعون بن عبد الله بن عتبةثقة عابدعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 151 and 160 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حُمَيْدٍضعيفحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AHالطَّيَالِسِيُّثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديث
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