مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب الزهدBook of Asceticism
(كلام ابن مسعود ﵁)Sayings of Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud رضي الله عنه
Hadith 37250
٣٧٢٥٠ - حدثنا عبد اللَّه بن إدريس عن ليث عن القاسم قال: قال عبد اللَّه: لا تعجلوا بحمد الناس وبذمهم، فإن الرجل يعجبك اليوم ويسوءك غدا، ويسوءك اليوم ويعجبك غدا، وإن العباد يغيرون، واللَّه يغفر الذنوب يوم القيامة، واللَّه أرحم (بعبده يوم يأتيه) (١) من أم واحد فرشت له في الأرض (في) (٢) ثم قامت تلتمس فراشه بيدها، فإن كانت لدغة كانت بها، وإن كانت شوكة كانت بها (٣).
It is narrated from Hazrat Qasim that he says Hazrat Abdullah said: Do not be hasty because of people's praise or people's criticism. Because today a person may like you, and tomorrow the same person may think badly of you. And today (if) he thinks badly of you, then tomorrow he may think well of you. Because people keep changing. Allah Almighty will forgive sins on the Day of Judgment. On the day when the servant comes to Allah, Allah Almighty will be more merciful to His servant than a mother is to her child, who spreads a bed for her child on barren land and then searches for the bedding with her own hands; so if there is anything that stings, it will be on her hand, and if there is any thorn, it will be on her hand.
