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السيوطي:١٣٥٥٨a

"حُلْوَةُ الدُّنْيَا مُرَّةُ الآخِرَةِ، وَمُرَّة الدُّنْيَا حُلوَةُ الآخِرَةِ".  

[حم] أحمد والبغوى، [طب] الطبرانى في الكبير [ك] الحاكم في المستدرك [هب] البيهقى في شعب الإيمان [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه عن أَبى مالك الأَشعرى

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tabarani:3438Aḥmad 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:٣٤٣٨حَدَّثَنَا 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»