English translation
3090. It was narrated from Muḥammad bin Khālid — Abū Dāwūd said: Ibrāhīm bin Mahdī said: "As-Sulāmī" — from his father, that his grandfather, who was a Companion of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, said: "I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say: 'If a certain status has previously been decreed by Allāh for a person, and he does not attain it by his deeds, Allāh afflicts him in his body, or wealth, or children.'" (Hasan) Abū Dāwūd said: Ibn Nufail (one of the narrators) added: "Then He makes him bear it with patience." Then they (the two narrators) were in accord: "Until He causes him to reach the status that Allāh had previously decreed for him.”
