Volume 4, Book 56, Number 680:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
(the wife of the Prophet) I asked Allah’s Apostle about the plague. He told me that it was a Punish –
ment sent by Allah on whom he wished, and Allah made it a source of mercy for the believers, for if
one in the time of an epidemic plague stays in his country patiently hoping for Allah’s Reward and
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believing that nothing will befall him except what Allah has written for him, he will get the reward
of a martyr.”