Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2753b
"عَنِ الْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِى قَالَ: كَتَبَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ إِلَى أَبِى مُوسى الأَشْعَرِىِّ: اقْنَعْ بِرِزْقِكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، فَإِنَّ الرَّحْمَنَ فَضَّلَ بَعْضَ عِبَادِهِ عَلَى بَعْضٍ فِى الرِّزْقِ بَلَاءً يَبْتَلِى بِهِ كُلًا، فَيَبْتَلِى بِهِ مَنْ بَسَطَ لَهُ كَيْفَ شُكْرهُ فِيهِ؟، وَشُكْرُهُ للَّه أَدَاؤُهُ للحَقِّ الَّذِى افْتُرِضَ عَلَيْهِ فِيما رَزقَهُ وَخوَّلَهُ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥasan al-Baṣriá
- Katab ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
- Abiá Mūsá al-Ashʿari Āqnaʿ Birizqik from al-Dunyā Faʾin al-Raḥman
Machine translation, not reviewed
"It is narrated from al-Hasan al-Basri who said: 'Umar ibn al-Khattab wrote to Abu Musa al-Ash'ari: Be content with your provision from the world, for the Most Merciful favored some of His servants over others in provision as a trial by which He tests all. So He tests the one to whom He extended it: how will he be grateful for it? His thanks to Allah is his fulfilment of the right that was obligated upon him in what He provided and granted him."
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