English translation
1140. Maʿdān bin Talḥah Al-Yaʿmurī said: "I met Thawbān, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, and said: 'Tell me of an action that will benefit me or gain me admittance to Paradise.' He remained silent for a while, then he turned to me and said: 'You should prostrate, because I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say: "There is no one who prostrates once to Allāh, the Mighty and Sublime, except that Allāh will raise him one degree in status thereby, and erase one sin thereby.” Ma’dān said: “Then I met Abū Ad-Dardā’ and asked him the same question I had asked Thawbān.” He said to me: You should prostrate, for I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say: “There is no one who prostrates once to Allāh, but Allāh will raise him one degree in status thereby, and erase one sin thereby.” (Saḥīḥ)