25. Reward of Patience in Calamities

عن أبي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لِنِسْوَةٍ من الْأَنْصَارِ لَا يَمُوتُ لِإِحْدَاكُنَّ ثَلَاثَةٌ من الْوَلَدِ فَتَحْتَسِبَهُ إلا دَخَلَتْ الْجَنَّةَ فقالت امْرَأَةٌ مِنْهُنَّ أو اثْنَيْنِ يا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قال أو اثْنَيْنِ

Abu Hurayrah (rta) stated that God’s Messenger (sws) said to a woman of the Ansar: “If anyone of you loses three children and she shows patience hoping to get reward, she will enter Paradise. At this, a woman from amongst them said: “Even if they are two O God’s Messenger!” Thereupon, he replied: “Even if they are two.”[1]

[1]. Ibid., vol. 4, 2028, (no. 2632).