Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ صَفْوَانَ قَالَ وَكَانَتْ تَحْتَهُ الدَّرْدَاءُ قَالَ أَتَيْتُ الشَّامَ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ فَلَمْ أَجِدْهُ وَوَجَدْتُ أُمَّ الدَّرْدَاءِ فَقَالَتْ تُرِيدُ الْحَجَّ الْعَامَ قَالَ قُلْتُ نَعَمْ فَقَالَتْ فَادْعُ لَنَا بِخَيْرٍ فَإِنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ دَعْوَةَ الْمُسْلِمِ مُسْتَجَابَةٌ لِأَخِيهِ بِظَهْرِ الْغَيْبِ عِنْدَ رَأْسِهِ مَلَكٌ مُوَكَّلٌ كُلَّمَا دَعَا لِأَخِيهِ بِخَيْرٍ قَالَ آمِينَ وَلَكَ بِمِثْلٍ فَخَرَجْتُ إِلَى السُّوقِ فَأَلْقَى أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ فَقَالَ لِي مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ يَأْثُرُهُ عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ وَيَعْلَى قَالَا ثَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ قَالَ يَزِيدُ ابْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَذَكَرَهُ.
English Translation
Ibn Numayr told us: Abd al-Malik told us, from Ata, from Safwan ibn Abdullah ibn Safwan, who said - and he was married to al-Darda - he said: 'I came to Syria and entered upon Abu al-Darda but did not find him, and found Umm al-Darda. She said: "Do you intend to perform Hajj this year?" I said: "Yes." She said: "Then supplicate good for us, for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to say: 'The supplication of a Muslim for his brother in his absence is answered; at his head is an appointed angel; every time he supplicates good for his brother, the angel says, Amin, and for you the like.'"' So I went out to the market and met Abu al-Darda, and he said the same to me, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Yazid ibn Harun and Ya'la told us, they said: Abd al-Malik told us, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Safwan - Yazid said 'ibn Abdullah' - and he mentioned it.