Volume 7, Book 70, Number 555:
Narrated ‘Ata bin Abi Rabah:
Ibn ‘Abbas said to me, “Shall I show you a woman of the people of Paradise?” I said, “Yes.” He said,
“This black lady came to the Prophet and said, ‘I get attacks of epilepsy and my body becomes un –
covered; please invoke Allah for me.’ The Prophet said (to her), ‘If you wish, be patient and you will
have (enter) Paradise; and if you wish, I will invoke Allah to cure you.’ She said, ‘I will remain pa –
tient,’ and added, ‘but I become uncovered, so please invoke Allah for me that I may not become un –
covered.’ So he invoked Allah for her.”
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 556:
Narrated ‘Ata:
That he had seen Um Zafar, the tall black lady, at (holding) the curtain of the Ka’ba.
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 557:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “Allah said, ‘If I deprive my slave of his two beloved things (i.e., his
eyes) and he remains patient, I will let him enter Paradise in compensation for them.'”
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 558:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
When Allah’s Apostle emigrated to Medina, Abu Bakr and Bilal got a fever. I entered upon them
and asked, “O my father! How are you? O Bilal! How are you?” Whenever fever attacked Abu Bakr,
he would recite the following poetic verses: ‘Everybody is staying alive among his people, yet death is
nearer to him than his shoe laces.” And whenever the fever deserted Bilal, he would recite (two poet –
ic lines): ‘Would that I could stay overnight in a valley wherein I would be surrounded by Idhkhir
and Jalil (two kinds of good smelling grass). Would that one day I would drink of the water of
Majinna and would that Shama and Tafil (two mountains at Mecca) would appear to me.’ Then I
came and informed Allah’s Apostle about that, whereupon he said, “O Allah! Make us love Medina as
much or more than we love Mecca. O Allah! Make it healthy and bless its Mudd and Sa for us, and
take away its fever and put it in Al’Juhfa.”
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 544:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
(the wife of the Prophet) Allah’s Apostle said, “No calamity befalls a Muslim but that Allah expiates
some of his sins because of it, even though it were the prick he receives from a thorn.”
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 545:
Narrated Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri and Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “No fatigue, nor disease, nor sorrow, nor sadness, nor hurt, nor distress befalls a
Muslim, even if it were the prick he receives from a thorn, but that Allah expiates some of his sins for
that.”