عربی (اصل)
حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْأَوْزَاعِيَّ يَقُولُ حَدَّثَنِي الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ الْمُعَيْطِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي مَعْدَانُ بْنُ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ الْيَعْمُرِيُّ قَالَ لَقِيتُ ثَوْبَانَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقُلْتُ أَخْبِرْنِي بِعَمَلٍ أَعْمَلُهُ يُدْخِلُنِي اللَّهُ بِهِ الْجَنَّةَ أَوْ قَالَ قُلْتُ بِأَحَبِّ الْأَعْمَالِ إِلَى اللَّهِ فَسَكَتَ ثُمَّ سَأَلْتُهُ الثَّالِثَةَ فَقَالَ سَأَلْتُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ عَلَيْكَ بِكَثْرَةِ السُّجُودِ فَإِنَّكَ لَا تَسْجُدُ لِلَّهِ سَجْدَةً إِلَّا رَفَعَكَ اللَّهُ بِهَا دَرَجَةً وَحَطَّ عَنْكَ بِهَا خَطِيئَةً قَالَ مَعْدَانُ ثُمَّ لَقِيتُ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَقَالَ لِي مِثْلَ مَا قَالَ لِي ثَوْبَانُ.
انگریزی ترجمہ
al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated to us, who said: I heard al-Awza'i saying: al-Walid ibn Hisham al-Mu'ayti narrated to me: Ma'dan ibn Abi Talha al-Ya'muri narrated to me, who said: I met Thawban, freedman of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and said, "Tell me of a deed I may do by which Allah will admit me to Paradise" — or he said, "I said, the deed most beloved to Allah" — so he was silent; then I asked him a third time, and he said, "I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about that, and he said, 'You must prostrate much, for you will not prostrate to Allah with a single prostration except that Allah raises you a degree by it and removes a sin from you by it.'" Ma'dan said: Then I met Abu al-Darda and asked him, and he told me the same as Thawban had told me.
