From the lessons of "Al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib," "Encouraging Patience, Especially for One Afflicted in Himself or His Wealth, and the Virtue of Trial, Illness, and Fever"

The Shaykh: For the best of speech is the speech of Allah, and the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and the worst of matters are their innovations, and every innovation is a religious innovation, and every religious innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire.
We are still in the hadiths concerning the encouragement of patience in the face of affliction and the explanation of the virtue thereof. In the previous lesson, we reached the thirty-eighth hadith in my copy, which begins with the author's (may Allah have mercy on him) words: "And from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: A woman who had a fit of madness came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah, call upon Allah for me. He said: . She said: No, I will be patient and there will be no reckoning for me." It was narrated by al-Bazzar and Ibn Hibban in his *Sahih*.
This story has a great resemblance to the story we read at the end of the previous lesson. The only difference is in the type of illness that afflicted the woman in this story and the one in that story. Here, the narrator says that she had *lamam*, which is a type of madness that befalls a person in episodes, rather than a constant, continuous madness. Meanwhile, that other woman was afflicted with epilepsy. This is the difference. It appears that the story of this woman is different from that story. Some scholars expand their view and assume that it is one story, and that the one who was epileptic is the one described here as having *lamam*. However, it appears that there is nothing to prevent saying that there were two women, each with her own story. That woman was epileptic, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) also promised her that if she wished, he would pray for her, and if she wished, she would be patient and Paradise would be hers. Here, he said to her: "If you wish, I will pray for you and Allah will cure you, and if you wish, you will be patient and there will be no reckoning for you." The apparent indication from the route of narration is that they are two stories: one for the one who was epileptic, and another for the one who had a type of madness, which is *lamam*. But the reward is the same; because the saying of the Messenger (peace be upon him): is equivalent to his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) to that woman who was epileptic; he said to her: . So everyone for whom there is no reckoning, there is no doubt that the outcome of their affair is entering Paradise. In any case, this hadith and that one, each of them indicates clearly and explicitly that the outcome of patience is entering Paradise.