Sahih al-Bukhari · The Book of Medicine

31- بَابُ أَجْرِ الصَّابِرِ فِي الطَّاعُونِ:

(31) Chapter. The reward of a person who suffers from plague (or lives in a plague-striken land) and remains patient.

1 hadith · references 5734–5734

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Bukhari · 5734أَنَّهَا سَأَلَتْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنِ الطَّاعُونِ ، فَأَخْبَرَهَا نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، أَنَّهُ كَانَ عَذَابًا يَبْعَثُهُ اللَّهُ عَلَى مَنْ يَشَاءُ ، فَجَ(the wife of the Prophet) that she asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about plague, and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) informed her saying, "Plague was a punishment which Allah used to send on whom He wished, but Allah made it a blessin8 narrators·parallel chain