No fatigue, illness, worry, grief, harm or distress befalls a Muslim, even the prick of a thorn, but that Allah expiates by it some of his sins.
“No fatigue, illness, worry, grief, harm or distress befalls a Muslim, even the prick of a thorn, but that Allah expiates by it some of his sins.”
The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) clarifies that whatever afflicts the Muslim of diseases, sorrows, sadness, adversities, calamities, hardships, fear, and hunger, even the prick of a thorn that hurts him, expiates his sins and erases his misdeeds.
The plain meaning, from HadeethEnc
عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضي الله عنهما عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: «مَا يُصِيبُ الْمُسْلِمَ مِنْ نَصَبٍ وَلَا وَصَبٍ وَلَا هَمٍّ وَلَا حُزْنٍ وَلَا أَذًى وَلَا غَمٍّ حَتَّى الشَّوْكَةِ يُشَاكُهَا إِلَّا كَفَّرَ اللهُ بِهَا مِنْ خَطَايَاهُ».
Abu Sa‘īd al-Khudri and Abu Hurayah (may Allah be pleased with both of them) reported that the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No fatigue, disease, sorrow, sadness, harm, or distress befalls a Muslim, even if it were a prick of a thorn, but Allah will expiate some of his sins thereby."
What does Sahih al-Bukhari 5641 mean?
Narrated by Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri and Abu Hurayrah, and agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim. The list is deliberately exhaustive — fatigue, illness, worry, grief, harm, distress — and then it goes smaller than any of them, down to a thorn. The scholars take the thorn as the point of the hadith: nothing is too small to count, which means nothing is wasted.
Written from HadeethEnc