Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Iyad bin Ghatif narrates that we went to visit Hazrat Abu Ubaidah bin Jarrah during his illness, and his face was turned towards the wall and his wife was sitting by his head. I asked, "How did Hazrat Abu Ubaidah spend the night?" His wife replied, "He spent the night in a state of reward." Hazrat Abu Ubaidah turned towards us and said, "I did not spend the night earning reward. When Allah Almighty tests someone by giving him some hardship, then that hardship becomes a cause for his sins to fall away."