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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:٥٦٩٠a –

"إِنَّ الطَّاعُونَ رَحمَةُ رَبِّكُم، وَدَعْوَةُ نَبِيِّكُم، وَمَوتُ الصَّالحِين قَبْلَكُم، وهُو شَهَادَةٌ ".  

الشيرازى في الأَلقاب عن معاذ

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tabarani:17428 – Abū Muslim al-Kashhī > ʿAbdullāh b. Rajāʾ > ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Bahrām > Shahr b. Ḥawshab > al-Ḥārith b. ʿAmīrah > Muʿādh b. Jabal

[Machine] "He said about the plague, 'It is the mercy of your Lord, the supplication of your Prophet, and the death of the righteous before you.'"  

الطبراني:١٧٤٢٨ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُسْلِمٍ الْكَشِّيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ رَجَاءٍ أَنَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ بَهْرَامٍ عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ عَنْ حَدِيثِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي الطَّاعُونِ «رَحْمَةُ رَبِّكُمْ وَدَعْوَةُ نَبِيِّكُمْ وَوَفَاةُ الصَّالِحِينَ قَبْلَكُمْ»