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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:18506a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١٨٥٠٦a –

"ما الدُّنْيَا في الآخِرَةِ إلا كَمَا يَمْشِي أحَدُكْم إِلَى الْيَمَّ فأَدْخَلَ إِصْبَعَهُ فِيه، فَمَا خَرَجَ مِنْهُ فَهُوَ الدُّنْيَا".

[ك] الحاكم في المستدرك عن المستورد

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[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The worldly life compared to the Hereafter is only like one of you dipping his finger in the sea."

الطبراني:١٧٩١٥ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ الرَّازِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ وَارَةَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ سَابِقٍ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ أَبِي قَيْسٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْمُهَاجِرِ عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنِ الْمُسْتَوْرِدِ بْنِ شَدَّادٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «مَا الدُّنْيَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا كَمَا يَمْشِي أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى الْيَمِّ فَيَدْخُلُ إِصْبَعَهُ»