Narrated Muhammad ibn Khalid as-Sulami: on his father's authority said his grandfather reported: He was a Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: When Allah has previously decreed for a servant a rank which he has not attained by his action, He afflicts him in his body, or his property or his children. Abu Dawud said: Ibn Nufail added in his version: "He then enables him to endure that. " The agreed version goes: "So that He may bring him to the rank previously decreed from him by Allah. "
Hadith Referenceسنن ابي داود / كتاب الجنائز / 3090
Hadith Gradingالألبانی:صحيح | زبیر علی زئی:حسن, مشكوة المصابيح (1568), وللحديث شاھد عند أبي يعلٰي الموصلي (10/482 ح 6095 وسنده حسن)
Hadith Takhrij« تفرد بہ أبوداود، (تحفة الأشراف: 15562)، وقد أخرجہ: مسند احمد (5/272) (صحیح) » (شواہد اور متابعات سے تقویت پا کر یہ حدیث بھی صحیح ہے ورنہ اس کے اندر محمد بن خالد اور ان کے والد خالد سلمی دونوں مجہول ہیں، ملاحظہ ہو: سلسلة الاحادیث الصحیحہ ، نمبر: 2599)