Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 254 – Volume 5, Book 58

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Volume 5, Book 58, Number 254:
Narrated Abu Burda Bin Abi Musa Al-Ashari:
'Abdullah 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 Abu Musa, will it please you that we will be rewarded
for our conversion to Islam with Allah's Apostle and our migration with him, and our Jihad 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?' Your father (i.e. Abu Musa) said, 'No, by Allah, we took part in Ji –
had after Allah's Apostle , prayed and did plenty of good deeds, and many people have embraced Is –
lam at our hands, and no doubt, we expect rewards from Allah 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 remain rewardable while whatsoever we did after the death of
the Prophet 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 Allah, your father was better than my father!"