English translation
3915. Narrated Abū Burda bin Abī Mūsā Al-Ash‘arī: ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Umar said to me, “Do you know what my father said to your father once?” I said, “No.” He said, “My father said to your father, ‘O Abū Mūsā, will it please you that we will be rewarded for our conversion to Islām with Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ and our emigration with him, and our Jihād with him and all our good deeds which we did with him, and that all the deeds we did after his death will be disregarded whether good or bad?’(1) Your father (i.e., Abū Mūsā) said, ‘No, by Allāh, we took part in Jihād after Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ, offered Ṣalāt (prayer) and did plenty of good deeds, and many people have embraced Islām at our hands, and no doubt, we expect rewards from Allāh for these good deeds.’ On that my father (i.e., ‘Umar) said, ‘As for myself, by Him in Whose Hand ‘Umar’s soul is, I wish that the deeds done by us at the time of the Prophet ﷺ remain rewardable, while whatsoever we did after the death of the Prophet ﷺ be enough to save us from punishment in that the good deeds compensate for the bad ones.'" On that I said (to Ibn 'Umar), "By Allāh, your father was better than my father!"