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tabarani:3438Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Najdah al-Ḥawṭī And ʾAbū Zayd al-Ḥawṭī > Abū al-Mughīrah > Ṣafwān b. ʿAmr > Shurayḥ b. ʿUbayd > Abū Mālik al-Ashʿarī

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "The sweetness of this worldly life is bitter compared to the hereafter, and the bitterness of the hereafter is sweeter than this worldly life."  

الطبراني:٣٤٣٨حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ بْنِ نَجْدَةَ الْحَوْطِيُّ وَأَبُو زَيْدٍ الْحَوْطِيُّ ثنا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ ثنا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ أَنَّ أَبَا مَالِكٍ الْأَشْعَرِيَّ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «حُلْوَةُ الدُّنْيَا مُرَّةُ الْآخِرَةِ وَمُرَّةُ الْآخِرَةِ حُلْوَةُ الدُّنْيَا»  


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ahmad:22899Abū al-Mughīrah > Ṣafwān > Shurayḥ b. ʿUbayd al-Ḥaḍramī > Abū Mālik al-Ashʿarī Lammā Ḥaḍarath al-Wafāh > Yā Sāmiʿ al-Ashʿariyyīn Liyuballigh al-Shāhid Minkum al-Ghāʾib Innī

[Machine] "When Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari was approached by death, he said, 'O listeners from the Ash'ariyyin, let the witness among you convey to the absent one that I have heard the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , saying: The sweetness of this worldly life is the bitterness of the hereafter, and the bitterness of this worldly life is the sweetness of the hereafter.'"  

أحمد:٢٢٨٩٩حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ حَدَّثَنَا صَفْوَانُ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ

أَنَّ أَبَا مَالِكٍ الْأَشْعَرِيَّ لَمَّا حَضَرَتْهُ الْوَفَاةُ قَالَ يَا سَامِعَ الْأَشْعَرِيِّينَ لِيُبَلِّغِ الشَّاهِدُ مِنْكُمُ الْغَائِبَ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ حُلْوَةُ الدُّنْيَا مُرَّةُ الْآخِرَةِ وَمُرَّةُ الدُّنْيَا حُلْوَةُ الْآخِرَةِ  

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السيوطي:١٣٥٥٨a

"حُلْوَةُ الدُّنْيَا مُرَّةُ الآخِرَةِ، وَمُرَّة الدُّنْيَا حُلوَةُ الآخِرَةِ".  

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