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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
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السيوطي:٢٣٥٠a –

"إذَا قَصَّر العْبدُ في العَملِ ابْتلاهُ الله بِالهمِّ" .  

[حم] أحمد في الزهد عن الحكيم مرسلًا

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ahmad-zuhd:53 – ʿAbdullāh > Bayān b. al-Ḥakam > Muḥammad b. Ḥātim Abū Jaʿfar > Bishr b. al-Ḥārith > Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh > Layth > al-Ḥakam

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When a servant neglects his work, Allah tests him with worries."  

الزهد لأحمد:٥٣ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا بَيَانُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ بِشْرِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنِ الْحَكَمِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «إِذَا قَصَّرَ الْعَبْدُ فِي الْعَمَلِ ابْتَلَاهُ اللَّهُ بِالْهَمِّ»