al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2925
✧ Expiation for illness, reward of the sick, and that the believer is afflicted so his reward may increase
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وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَاسِرٍ عَمَّارُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ عَطِيَّةَ، كِلَاهُمَا عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ، قَالَ:
« مَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِ مَثَلُ السُّنْبُلَةِ، تَمِيلُ أَحْيَانًا، وَتَقُومُ أَحْيَانًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yāsir ʿAmmār b. Naṣr
- Yūsuf b. ʿAṭiyyah
- Thābit
- Anas
✧ "The example of the believer is like that of a grain stalk: it bends at times and stands upright at times."
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 5643Sahih Muslim 2810cMusnad Ahmad 15154Musnad Ahmad 15245Musnad al-Bazzar 7510Musnad Abi Ya'la 3476
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٍثقة عابدعن
- عبيد بن مسلم البصريحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper, al-Nasāʾī alone considered him soft (layyin)d. 235 AH, or: 236 AH, or: 237 AH, or: 238 AH, also said: 239 AHهدبة بن خالدثقة عابد ، تفرد النسائي بتليينهحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأبو يعلى الموصلي
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