Explanation of the hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him): (If My believing servant is afflicted and does not complain to his visitors, I will release him from My bonds and then replace his flesh with better flesh and his blood with better blood, and then he will resume his work)

The Shaykh : The second hadith, and it is authentic. He said:
And from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said: Al-Hakim narrated it and said: It is authentic according to the conditions of both of them.
This hadith mentions a condition which, on its surface, is a different condition from the one mentioned in the previous hadith, which is his saying: Now, here there is another condition, but what I believe is that it is a verbal condition, because in meaning it returns to the praise mentioned in the previous hadith.
Here it says: He did not say, "What has our Lord afflicted us with? Or what did He do to us? What did He do to us?" as we hear from many ignorant misguides. So, if this believer is afflicted by Allah, Mighty and Majestic, with illness, when people come to visit him, he does not complain to them about his Lord. He says, as the Jews used to say, as we used to hear in the past: "O Lord, why did You take this from me?" This is arrogance and haughtiness toward Allah, Mighty and Majestic, the Doer of what He wills, who is not questioned about what He does, while they are questioned.
So, if this sick servant is visited by his visitors and they visit him, and he does not fidget and does not become annoyed, and one of the effects of that is that he does not complain to his visitors about his Lord who afflicted him, if he does not complain, what is his reward? He, Blessed and Exalted is He, said in the completion of the hadith: meaning I removed the restraint and bondage from him. meaning that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, removes this affliction and that illness from him and replaces it with health. And this is what He alluded to by His saying: And perhaps the meaning is that then he will resume his work, meaning he will continue on his path in performing what Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, has made obligatory upon him of work.
After this hadith, there are two weak hadiths: the first is from Jabir, and the other is from Asad ibn Karz.