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1598. It was narrated from Umm Salamah that Abu Salamah told her that he heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say: "There is no Muslim who is stricken with a calamity and reacts by saying as Allāh has commanded: 'Innā lillāhi, wa innā ilayhi rāji'un. Allāhumma 'indakah-tasabtu musibati, fajurni fihā, wa 'awwidni minhā' (Truly, to Allāh we belong and truly, to Him we shall return. O Allāh, with You I seek reward for my calamity, so reward me for it and compensate me),' but Allāh will reward him for that and compensate him with something better than it." She said: "When Abu Salamah died, I remembered what he had told me from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and I said: 'Innā lillāhi, wa innā ilayhi rāji'un. Allāhumma 'indakah-tasabtu musibati hādhih, fajurni 'alaihā' (Truly, to Allāh we belong and truly, to Him we shall return. O Allāh, with You I seek reward for my calamity, so reward me for it)." But when I wanted to say wa 'awwidni minhā (and compensate me with better), I said to myself: 'How can I be compensated with something better than Abu Salamah?' Then I said it, and Allāh compensated me with Muhammad ﷺ and rewarded me for my calamity."[1] (Hasan)
[1] See no. 1447.
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a. Observing patience over a calamity is definitely rewarding in the Hereafter, and in this life one also gets the favors of Allāh for observing patience.
b. It shows the greatness of the faith of the Companions, that apparently there was no possibility of this supplication to be granted, yet Umm Salamah made the supplication following the Prophet's instruction and believed the prophetic saying as true.
