Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1600
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعُ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ، عَنْ أُمِّهِ، عَنْ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتِ الْحُسَيْنِ، عَنْ أَبِيهَا، قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " مَنْ أُصِيبَ بِمُصِيبَةٍ فَذَكَرَ مُصِيبَتَهُ فَأَحْدَثَ اسْتِرْجَاعًا - وَإِنْ تَقَادَمَ عَهْدُهَا - كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَهُ مِنَ الأَجْرِ مِثْلَهُ يَوْمَ أُصِيبَ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Waki narrated to us, from Hisham ibn Ziyad, from his mother, from Fatimah bint al-Husayn, from her father, who said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Whoever is struck by a calamity, then remembers it and renews the words of returning to Allah—“Indeed, we belong to Allah and indeed to Him we return”—even after a long time has passed, Allah will record for him a reward like the reward on the day he was struck by it.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
‘استرجاعًا’ refers to saying ‘إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون’ (‘Indeed, we belong to Allah and indeed to Him we return’). ‘وَإِنْ تَقَادَمَ عَهْدُهَا’ means even if the calamity is long past; the comparison in ‘مِثْلَهُ يَوْمَ أُصِيبَ’ is kept close without specifying a kind of reward not named in the Arabic.