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ahmad:16578Abū al-Yamān > Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq > Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAṭāʾ > Nuʿaym b. Mujmir > Rabīʿah b. Kaʿb

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, "Ask me, and I will give you." I said, "O Messenger of Allah, look at me, give me a look in my affair." He said, "Then look at your affair." I said, "Indeed, the matters of this world are cut off, so I do not see anything better than something I take for myself for my hereafter." So, I went to the Prophet ﷺ, and he said, "What is your need?" I said, "O Messenger of Allah, intercede for me with your Lord, and let Him emancipate me from the Fire." He said, "Who commanded you with this?" I said, "No, by Allah, O Messenger of Allah, no one commanded me with it, but I looked into my affair and saw that the world is temporary for its people. So, I loved to take something for my hereafter." He said, "Then help yourself by making abundant prostrations."  

أحمد:١٦٥٧٨حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ مُجْمِرٍ عَنْ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ كَعْبٍ قَالَ قَالَ

لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ سَلْنِي أُعْطِكَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَنْظِرْنِي أَنْظُرْ فِي أَمْرِي قَالَ فَانْظُرْ فِي أَمْرِكَ قَالَ فَنَظَرْتُ فَقُلْتُ إِنَّ أَمْرَ الدُّنْيَا يَنْقَطِعُ فَلَا أَرَى شَيْئًا خَيْرًا مِنْ شَيْءٍ آخُذُهُ لِنَفْسِي لِآخِرَتِي فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ مَا حَاجَتُكَ؟ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ اشْفَعْ لِي إِلَى رَبِّكَ ﷻ فَلْيُعْتِقْنِي مِنَ النَّارِ فَقَالَ مَنْ أَمَرَكَ بِهَذَا؟ فَقُلْتُ لَا وَاللهِ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مَا أَمَرَنِي بِهِ أَحَدٌ وَلَكِنِّي نَظَرْتُ فِي أَمْرِي فَرَأَيْتُ أَنَّ الدُّنْيَا زَائِلَةٌ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا فَأَحْبَبْتُ أَنْ آخُذَ لِآخِرَتِي قَالَ فَأَعِنِّي عَلَى نَفْسِكَ بِكَثْرَةِ السُّجُودِ