Hisn al-Muslim 83
((الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي عَافَانِي مِمَّا ابْتَلاَكَ بِهِ، وَفَضَّلَنِي عَلَى كَثِيرٍ مِمَّنْ خَلَقَ تَفْضِيلاً)).
(Alhamdu lillahil-lathee AAafanee mimmab-talaka bih, wafaddalanee AAala katheerin mimman khalaqa tafdeela.)
(All praise is for Allah Who saved me from that which He tested you with and Who most certainly favoured me over much of His creation.)
Source: Hisn al-Muslim · Reference: Hisn al-Muslim 83
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Praise is offered and two reasons are attached to it, both comparative. The first names the affliction directly as a test, and states that the speaker was saved from it. The second widens past the person being looked at to much of His creation, and says the speaker was favoured over them. The one afflicted is addressed as you, so the comparison is spoken in their presence.
Ibn Majah records this from Ibn 'Umar, said on seeing someone afflicted by misfortune.
Nothing is asked for the afflicted person. Both clauses concern the speaker's own position, and the affliction is named only as the thing that was avoided.
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Cited here as Sunan Ibn Majah 3628.
The translation given here is: “All praise is for Allah Who saved me from that which He tested you with and Who most certainly favoured me over much of His creation.” Praise is offered and two reasons are attached to it, both comparative.
Transliterated: “Alhamdu lillahil-lathee AAafanee mimmab-talaka bih, wafaddalanee AAala katheerin mimman khalaqa tafdeela.”
Ibn Majah records this from Ibn 'Umar, said on seeing someone afflicted by misfortune. Nothing is asked for the afflicted person.