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tabarani:8332Sahl b. Mūsá > Muḥammad b. Abū Ṣafwān > al-Ḥasan b. Ḥabīb b. Nudbah > Mubārak b. Faḍālah > al-Ḥasan > Ashraf ʿAlaynā ʿUthmān b. Abū al-ʿĀṣ Yawm

[Machine] Indeed, I found the Muslim person between two needs, a need from the worldly life that he cannot do without, and a need for the Hereafter that he cannot do without. And Allah knows best which of the two needs prevails.  

الطبراني:٨٣٣٢حَدَّثَنَا سَهْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي صَفْوَانَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ حَبِيبِ بْنِ نُدْبَةَ ثنا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ أَشْرَفَ عَلَيْنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي الْعَاصِ يَوْمًا فَقَالَ

إِنِّي وَجَدْتُ الْمَرْءَ الْمُسْلِمَ بَيْنَ حَاجَتَيْنِ حَاجَةٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا لَا بُدَّ لَهُ مِنْهَا وَحَاجَةٌ لِلْآخِرَةِ لَا بُدَّ لَهُ مِنْهَا وَاللهُ أعْلَمُ أَيُّ الْحَاجَتَيْنِ تَغْلِبُ