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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:٣٢٦٣a –

"أشدُّ النَّاسِ بلاءً الأنبياءُ، ثُمَّ الصَّالحون، ثُمَّ الأمْثَلُ فالأمْثَلُ".  

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Collected by Ḥākim, Suyūṭī
hakim:5463 – Muṣʿab b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ from his father

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said: "The toughest trials are for the prophets, then the scholars, then those who resemble them (in knowledge or righteousness), then those who resemble them."  

الحاكم:٥٤٦٣ – قَدْ صَحَّتِ الرِّوَايَةُ مِنْ أَوْجُهٍ عَنْ مُصْعَبِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ «أَشَدُّ النَّاسِ بَلَاءً الْأَنْبِيَاءُ ثُمَّ الْعُلَمَاءُ ثُمَّ الْأَمْثَلُ فَالْأَمْثَلُ»