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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:18584a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١٨٥٨٤a –

"ما أَخَذَت الدُّنْيا من الآخِرِةِ إلا كَما أَخَذْ المِخْيطُ غرس في البحر من مائه".

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن المستورد بن شداد

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tabarani:17931 – Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Tustarī > Ṭāhir b. Khālid b. Nizār > Ādam b. Abū Iyās > Bakr b. Khunays > Ashʿath b. Sawwār > al-Shaʿbī > al-Mustawrid

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The world has only taken from the hereafter as much as a needle takes from the sea when it is dipped into it."

الطبراني:١٧٩٣١ – حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا طَاهِرُ بْنُ خَالِدِ بْنِ نِزَارٍ ثنا آدَمُ بْنُ أَبِي إِيَاسٍ ثنا بَكْرُ بْنُ خُنَيْسٍ عَنْ أَشْعَثَ بْنِ سَوَّارٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنِ الْمُسْتَوْرِدِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «مَا أَخَذَتِ الدُّنْيَا مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا كَمَا أَخَذَ مِخْيَطٌ غُرِسَ فِي الْبَحْرِ مِنْ مَائِهِ»