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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
tabarani:8535 – Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣāʾigh > Saʿīd b. Manṣūr > Abū Muʿāwiyah > al-Sarī b. Yaḥyá > al-Ḥasan > ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd Law And Qaft Bayn al-Jannah Wa-al-Nnār Faqīl Lī Ākhtar Nukhayyirk from Ayyihimā Takūn Aḥab Ilayk or Takūn Ramād Laʾaḥbabt

[Machine] "To be ashes."

الطبراني:٨٥٣٥ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الصَّائِغُ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ ثنا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ ثنا السَّرِيُّ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ §لَوْ وَقَفْتُ بَيْنَ الْجَنَّةِ وَالنَّارِ فَقِيلَ لِي اخْتَرْ نُخَيِّرْكَ مِنْ أَيِّهِمَا تَكُونُ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْكَ أَوْ تَكُونُ رَمَادًا لَأَحْبَبْتُ

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ahmad-zuhd:1523 – ʿAbdullāh > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar > al-Minhāl / Ibn ʿĪsá > ʿUqbah al-Rāsibī

[Machine] "To eat"

الزهد لأحمد:١٥٢٣ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنَا الْمِنْهَالُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عِيسَى عَنْ عُقْبَةَ الرَّاسِبِيِّ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى الْحَسَنِ فَوَافَيْتُهُ يَتَغَذَّى خُبْرًا وَلَحْمًا فَقَالَ هَلُمَّ إِلَى طَعَامِ الْأَحْرَارِ فَقُلْتُ أَكَلْتُ لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ آكُلَ فَقَالَ «سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَيَأْكُلُ الْمُسْلِمُ حَتَّى لَا يَسْتَطِيعَ

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