Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #28670

Suwayd bin Nasr told us, Ibn Al-Mubarak told us, on the authority of Al-Muthanna bin Al-Sabbah, on the authority of Amr bin Shuaib, on the authority of his grandfather Abdullah bin Amr, he said, I heard the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, say: “Whoever has two qualities, God will write him down as thankful and patient, and whoever does not have them, he will not.” God writes it down as thankful and patient, whoever looks in his religion to those who are above him and follows his example, and looks in his world to those who are below him. So he thanked God for what He had bestowed upon him, God wrote him down as thankful and patient. And whoever looks in his religion to those who are inferior to him and looks in his world to those who are inferior to him. He is above him So he regretted what he had missed. God did not write him down as thankful or patient.” Musa bin Hazzam, the righteous man, told us. Ali bin Ishaq, Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak informed us, Al-Muthanna bin Al-Sabbah informed us, on the authority of Amr bin Shuaib, on the authority of his father, on the authority of his grandfather, on the authority of The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, did something similar. He said this is a good and strange hadith, and he did not mention Suwayd bin Nasr in his hadith on the authority of his father.