Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنٌ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ حَدَّثَنَا زَبَّانُ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ أَنَّهُ أَتَاهُ عَائِدًا فَقَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ لِأَبِي بَعْدَ أَنْ سَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِ بِالصِّحَّةِ لَا بِالْوَجَعِ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ مَا يَزَالُ الْمَرْءُ الْمُسْلِمُ بِهِ الْمَلِيلَةُ وَالصُّدَاعُ وَإِنَّ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ الْخَطَايَا لَأَعْظَمَ مِنْ أُحُدٍ حَتَّى يَتْرُكَهُ وَمَا عَلَيْهِ مِنْ الْخَطَايَا مِثْقَالُ حَبَّةٍ مِنْ خَرْدَلٍ.
English Translation
Hasan told us: Ibn Lahi'ah told us: Zabban told us, from Sahl ibn Mu'adh, from his father, from Abu al-Darda, that he came to visit my father, and Abu al-Darda said to my father, after greeting him, 'With health, not with sickness,' three times, saying that. Then he said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "The Muslim man continues to be afflicted with fever and headache, and though his sins be greater than Mount Uhud, they diminish until it leaves him and there remains of his sins nothing but the weight of a mustard seed."'