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(24). 3038. Abū Hurairah said: "When the following was revealed: 'Whoever works evil will have the recompense of it...' [1] That worried the Muslims, so they complained about that to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and he said: "Seek closeness and be steadfast, and in all that afflicts the believer there is atonement, even a thorn that pricks him, and the hardship he suffers."
(Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Ḥasan Gharīb. Ibn Muḥāišīn (a narrator in the chain) is 'Umar bin 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin Muḥāišīn.
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A true believer has advantage and distinction, if a mistake, wrongdoing and error happens from him; or any type of worldly trouble, worry, sickness or any tragedy befalling him — even the prick of a thorn becomes an expiation of his
[1] An-Nisā' 4:123.
sins. But the sins of the disbelievers are not expiated, that is why they will get punished on the Last Day.
