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adab:670'Umar said, "The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to seek refuge from five things:

laziness, miserliness, bad pride, the trial of what is in the breast, and the punishment of the grave."  

الأدب المفرد:٦٧٠حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ

عَنْ عُمَرَ قَالَ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَتَعَوَّذُ مِنَ الْخَمْسِ مِنَ الْكَسَلِ وَالْبُخْلِ وَسُوءِ الْكِبَرِ وَفِتْنَةِ الصَّدْرِ وَعَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ  

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nasai:5446Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > al-Faḍl b. Mūsá > Zakariyyā > Abū Isḥāq > ʿAmr b. Maymūn > Ibn Masʿūd

"The Prophet [SAW] used to seek refuge (with Allah) from five things: From miserliness, cowardice, reaching the age of second childhood, the tribulation of the heart and the torment of the grave."  

النسائي:٥٤٤٦أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى عَنْ زَكَرِيَّا عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَتَعَوَّذُ مِنْ خَمْسٍ مِنَ الْبُخْلِ وَالْجُبْنِ وَسُوءِ الْعُمُرِ وَفِتْنَةِ الصَّدْرِ وَعَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ  

nasai:5480Aḥmad b. Faḍālah > ʿUbaydullāh > Isrāʾīl > Abū Isḥāq > ʿAmr b. Maymūn > ʿUmar

The Prophet [SAW] used to seek refuge with Allah from cowardice, miserliness, reaching the age of second childhood, the trials of the heart and the torment of the grave.  

النسائي:٥٤٨٠أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ يَتَعَوَّذُ مِنَ الْجُبْنِ وَالْبُخْلِ وَسُوءِ الْعُمُرِ وَفِتْنَةِ الصَّدْرِ وَعَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ  

abudawud:1539ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah > Wakīʿ > Isrāʾīl > Abū Isḥāq > ʿAmr b. Maymūn > ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

The Prophet ﷺ used to seek refuge in Allah from five things; cowardliness, niggardliness, the evils of old age, evil thoughts, and punishment in the grave.  

أبو داود:١٥٣٩حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَتَعَوَّذُ مِنْ خَمْسٍ مِنَ الْجُبْنِ وَالْبُخْلِ وَسُوءِ الْعُمْرِ وَفِتْنَةِ الصَّدْرِ وَعَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ