I came to Kufa and was told about Bilal bin Abu Burda. I said, "There is surely a lesson to be drawn from his case." So I went to him while he was imprisoned in the very house he had built. Everything about him had changed from the torture and beatings, and he was clothed in rags.I said, "Praise be to Allah, Bilal. I used to see you passing by us holding your nose even when there was no dust, yet here you are today in this state."He asked, "Who are you from?"I replied, "From Banu Mura bin Abbad."He said, "Shall I tell you a hadith that perhaps Allah will benefit you through?"I said, "Go ahead."He said, "My father Abu Burda told me, from his father Abu Musa, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'No misfortune, great or small, befalls a servant except because of a sin, and what Allah pardons is greater.'" Then he recited, "Whatever misfortune befalls you is because of what your own hands have earned, and He pardons much" [Shura 42:30].
حدثنا عبد بن حميد حدثنا عمرو بن عاصم حدثنا عبيد الله بن الوازع قال
قدمت الكوفة فأخبرت عن بلال بن أبي بردة فقلت إن فيه لمعتبرا فأتيته وهو محبوس في داره التي قد كان بنى قال وإذا كل شيء منه قد تغير من العذاب والضرب وإذا هو في قشاش فقلت الحمد لله يا بلال لقد رأيتك وأنت تمر بنا تمسك بأنفك من غير غبار وأنت في حالك هذا اليوم فقال ممن أنت فقلت من بني مرة بن عباد فقال ألا أحدثك حديثا عسى الله أن ينفعك به قلت هات قال حدثني أبي أبو بردة عن أبيه أبي موسى أن رسول الله ﷺ قال لا يصيب عبدا نكبة فما فوقها أو دونها إلا بذنب وما يعفو الله عنه أكثر قال وقرأ {وما أصابكم من مصيبة فبما كسبت أيديكم ويعفو عن كثير}
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[Its chain of transmission is daif]. It is found in the tafsir of Abd bin Humayd, as in Durr Manthur, 9/6. Ubaydullah bin Wazi and his teacher are unknown, but the basic hadith has corroborating narrations in Ahmad, 6/185, and elsewhere.