Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ غَيْلَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا رِشْدِينُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَعْدٍ أَبُو الْحَجَّاجِ الْمَهْرِيُّ عَنْ حَرْمَلَةَ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ التُّجِيبِيِّ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ إِذَا رَأَيْتَ اللَّهَ يُعْطِي الْعَبْدَ مِنْ الدُّنْيَا عَلَى مَعَاصِيهِ مَا يُحِبُّ فَإِنَّمَا هُوَ اسْتِدْرَاجٌ ثُمَّ تَلَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ { فَلَمَّا نَسُوا مَا ذُكِّرُوا بِهِ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ أَبْوَابَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ حَتَّى إِذَا فَرِحُوا بِمَا أُوتُوا أَخَذْنَاهُمْ بَغْتَةً فَإِذَا هُمْ مُبْلِسُونَ }.
English Translation
Yahya ibn Ghaylan narrated to us, he said: Rishdin - meaning Ibn Sa'd, Abu al-Hajjaj al-Mahri - narrated to us, from Harmalah ibn 'Imran al-Tujibi, from 'Uqbah ibn Muslim, from 'Uqbah ibn 'Amir, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said, "If you see Allah giving a servant what he loves of this world despite his acts of disobedience, then it is merely a gradual luring to destruction." Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, recited: {So when they forgot that by which they had been reminded, We opened for them the doors of every [good] thing until, when they rejoiced in that which they had been given, We seized them suddenly, and they were [then] in despair.}