Hadith / Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba / 33:738

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba 33:738

Book of Asceticism (Zuhd)

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Hadith 33:738

Yazid ibn Harun narrated to us, he said: Al-Mas'udi informed us, from 'Awn ibn 'Abd Allah, he said: No one places death in its true place except a servant who counts tomorrow as not being of his lifespan. How many a person who anticipates a day does not complete it, and one who hopes for a tomorrow does not reach it. If you were to see the appointed time (death) and its course, you would hate hope and its deception.

حدثنا يزيد بن هارون قال أخبرنا المسعودي عن عون بن عبد الله قال ما أحد ينزل الموت حق منزلته إلا عبد عد غدا ليس من أجله كم من مستقبل يوما لا يستكمله وراج غدا لا يبلغه إنك لو ترى الأجل ومسيره لأبغضت الأمل وغروره