The Prophet ﷺ passed by some people who were afflicted with trials and said, "Could these people not have asked Allah for well-being?"
أن النبي ﷺ مر بقوم مبتلين فقال: أما كان هولاء يسألون الله العافية.
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Bazzar (6643) narrated it from Abbas bin Jafar Baghdadi, who said, Yazid bin Mihran told us, Abu Bakr bin Ayyash told us, from Humayd, from Anas, and he related it.Bazzar said, "We do not know of anyone who narrated it from Humayd except Abu Bakr bin Ayyash."I say, Abu Bakr bin Ayyash is trustworthy, and likewise all the men in the chain, so it is sahih.Similar in meaning is what was narrated from Anas bin Malik, that a man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, "O Messenger of Allah, which supplication is best?" He said, "Ask your Lord for well-being and continued well-being in this world and the next." Then the man came to him the second day and said, "O Messenger of Allah, which supplication is best?" and he told him the same thing. Then he came to him the third day and he told him the same thing, and said, "If you are given well-being in this world and given it in the hereafter, then you have succeeded."Tirmidhi (3512), Ibn Majah (3848), Ahmad (12291), and Bukhari in Adab al-Mufrad (637) all narrated it through various routes from Salama bin Wardan, from Anas, and he related it.Tirmidhi said, "This is a hasan gharib hadith from this angle, we only know it through the hadith of Salama bin Wardan."I say, Salama bin Wardan is daif. Ahmad said he is a narrator of odd hadiths and weak in hadith. Ibn Main said, "He is nothing." Abu Hatim and Abu Zura said, "We do not know of any hadith he narrated from Anas that was shared by anyone else, except for one hadith, the hadith of Anas from Muaz, 'Whoever dies without associating any partner with Allah.' This one was indeed shared by others." Ibn Hibban said, "He used to narrate from Anas things that do not resemble his hadith."