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tirmidhi:2870Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl > Khalāad b. Yaḥyá > Bashīr b. al-Muhājir > ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah from his father

from his father that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Do you know what the parable of this and this is?" - and he tossed two pebbles. They said: "Allah and His Messenger ﷺ know better." He said: "This (the farther) one is hope, and this (closer) one is death."  

Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Gharīb in this particular context.
الترمذي:٢٨٧٠حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَلاَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بَشِيرُ بْنُ الْمُهَاجِرِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ بُرَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ هَلْ تَدْرُونَ مَا هَذِهِ وَمَا هَذِهِ وَرَمَى بِحَصَاتَيْنِ قَالُوا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ هَذَاكَ الأَمَلُ وَهَذَاكَ الأَجَلُ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ

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