Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ شُعْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ مَرَّ بِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَنَا أُصَلِّي فَقَالَ سَلْ تُعْطَهْ يَا ابْنَ أُمِّ عَبْدٍ فَابْتَدَرَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا قَالَ عُمَرُ مَا بَادَرَنِي أَبُو بَكْرٍ إِلَى شَيْءٍ إِلَّا سَبَقَنِي إِلَيْهِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَسَأَلَاهُ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ فَقَالَ مِنْ دُعَائِي الَّذِي لَا أَكَادُ أَدَعُ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ نَعِيمًا لَا يَبِيدُ وَقُرَّةَ عَيْنٍ لَا تَنْفَدُ وَمُرَافَقَةَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مُحَمَّدٍ فِي أَعْلَى الْجَنَّةِ جَنَّةِ الْخُلْدِ.
English Translation
Yahya told us, from Shu’bah: Abu Ishaq told us, from Abu Ubaydah, from Abdullah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, passed by me while I was praying, and he said, "Ask, and you shall be given, O son of Umm Abd." Abu Bakr and Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both, hastened to ask him about it. Umar said, "Abu Bakr never raced me to anything but Abu Bakr got there before me." So they asked him about his statement, and he said, "It is from a supplication of mine which I hardly ever leave off: ‘O Allah, I ask You for everlasting bliss that does not fade, and delight of the eye that does not end, and companionship with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, Muhammad, in the highest part of Paradise, the Garden of Eternity.’"