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80 – Al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Ghassān al-Ghallābī narrated to us; Abū Mus-hir reported, from Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, who said: Shurayḥ declared, “No servant is afflicted by a calamity without Allah granting him therein three favors: first, that it does not strike his religion; second, that it is not greater than it actually is; and third, that since it was destined to happen, it has now run its course.”
٨٠ - حَدَّثَنَا الْمُفَضَّلُ بْنُ غَسَّانَ الْغَلَابِيُّ، ثنا أَبُو مُسْهِرٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، قَالَ: قَالَ شُرَيْحٌ: " مَا أُصِيبَ عَبْدٌ بِمُصِيبَةٍ إِلَّا كَانَ لِلَّهِ عَلَيْهِ فِيهَا ثَلَاثُ نِعَمٍ: أَنْ لَا تَكُونَ كَانَتْ فِي دِينِهِ، وَأَنْ لَا تَكُونَ أَعْظَمَ مِمَّا كَانَتْ، وَأَنَّهَا كَائِنَةٌ، فَقَدْ كَانَتْ "