Musnad Ahmad — Hadith #44523

Ali bin Ayyash told us, he said, Al-Attaf bin Khalid told us, he said, a man from the people of Basra told me, on the authority of Talha bin Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman bin Abi Bakr Al-Siddiq, he said, I heard my father mentioning, that his father, heard Abu Bakr, saying, I said to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace May God bless him and grant him peace, O Messenger of God, work on what has been completed or on an ongoing matter. He said, rather on a matter that has been completed. I said, “What is the work to do?” O Messenger of God, he said, “Everyone is facilitated for what he was created for.”