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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad:22899 – Abū al-Mughīrah > Ṣafwān > Shurayḥ b. ʿUbayd al-Ḥaḍramī > Abū Mālik al-Ashʿarī Lammā Ḥaḍarath al-Wafāh > Yā Sāmiʿ al-Ashʿariyyīn Liyuballigh al-Shāhid Minkum al-Ghāʾib Innī

[Machine] "When Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari was approached by death, he said, 'O listeners from the Ash'ariyyin, let the witness among you convey to the absent one that I have heard the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , saying: The sweetness of this worldly life is the bitterness of the hereafter, and the bitterness of this worldly life is the sweetness of the hereafter.'"  

أحمد:٢٢٨٩٩ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ حَدَّثَنَا صَفْوَانُ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ

أَنَّ أَبَا مَالِكٍ الْأَشْعَرِيَّ لَمَّا حَضَرَتْهُ الْوَفَاةُ قَالَ يَا سَامِعَ الْأَشْعَرِيِّينَ لِيُبَلِّغِ الشَّاهِدُ مِنْكُمُ الْغَائِبَ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ حُلْوَةُ الدُّنْيَا مُرَّةُ الْآخِرَةِ وَمُرَّةُ الدُّنْيَا حُلْوَةُ الْآخِرَةِ  

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Collected by Ḥākim, Ṭabarānī
hakim:7861 – ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar al-Quṭayʿī > ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal from my father > Abū al-Mughīrah > Ṣafwān b. ʿAmr > Shurayḥ b. ʿUbayd > Abū Mālik al-Ashʿarī Lammā Ḥaḍarath al-Wafāh > Yā Maʿshar al-Ashʿariyyīn Liyuballigh al-Shāhid Minkum al-Ghāʾib Annī

[Machine] "When the time of death approached Aba Malik al-Ash'ari, he said, 'O people of the Ash'ari tribe, let the absent ones be informed by the witnesses among you that I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "The sweetness of this world is the bitterness of the Hereafter, and the bitterness of this world is the sweetness of the Hereafter."'"  

الحاكم:٧٨٦١ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْقُطَيْعِيُّ ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ ثَنَا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ

أَنَّ أَبَا مَالِكٍ الْأَشْعَرِيَّ لَمَّا حَضَرَتْهُ الْوَفَاةُ قَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَشْعَرِيِّينَ لِيُبَلِّغَ الشَّاهِدُ مِنْكُمُ الْغَائِبَ أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «حُلْوَةُ الدُّنْيَا مُرَّةُ الْآخِرَةِ وَمُرَّةُ الدُّنْيَا حُلْوَةُ الْآخِرَةِ»  

هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ صحيح
tabarani:3438 – Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Najdah al-Ḥawṭī And ʾAbū Zayd al-Ḥawṭī > Abū al-Mughīrah > Ṣafwān b. ʿAmr > Shurayḥ b. ʿUbayd > Abū Mālik al-Ashʿarī

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "The sweetness of this worldly life is bitter compared to the hereafter, and the bitterness of the hereafter is sweeter than this worldly life."  

الطبراني:٣٤٣٨ – حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ بْنِ نَجْدَةَ الْحَوْطِيُّ وَأَبُو زَيْدٍ الْحَوْطِيُّ ثنا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ ثنا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ أَنَّ أَبَا مَالِكٍ الْأَشْعَرِيَّ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «حُلْوَةُ الدُّنْيَا مُرَّةُ الْآخِرَةِ وَمُرَّةُ الْآخِرَةِ حُلْوَةُ الدُّنْيَا»