Is This Hadith, I have no reward except Paradise for a believing servant of mine…’ Related to the Loss of a Soul?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
Allah (Most High) says, “I have no reward except Paradise for a believing servant of mine who shows patience and anticipates my reward when I take away one of their favorite people from the world’s inhabitants.
Is the above only related to death?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are in good faith and health.
Yes, this is related to the loss and death of a person. The hadith is as follows:
Abu Hurayra (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Allah, the Exalted, said: ‘My reward shall be nothing less than Paradise for My faithful servant who if I take the life of his beloved one from the inhabitants of the world, he bears it patiently in expectation of My reward.’” [Bukhari]
This is a hadith Qudsi. The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) says that any believer who is tested with losing his beloved one, such as one’s child, parent, sibling, uncle, etc. Some scholars mention that he was the only child that one had. So, with such a loss, if one seeks reward from Allah, then the reward for it is nothing less than Paradise.
[Ali al-Qari, Mirqat al-Mafatih, Sharh al-Mishkat al-Masabih]
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[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
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Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.
