عن سفيانَ بنِ عبد الله الثقفيِّ قال: قلتُ: يا رسولَ الله، قل لي في الإسلام قولًا لا أسأل عنه أحدًا بعدكَ - وفي حديث أبي أسامة: غيرَك – قال: «قل: آمنتُ بالله، فاستقم».
102 - Rectitude
Sufyān ibn ‘Abdullāh al-Thaqafī narrated:
1. I said: ‘Messenger of God, tell me something of Islam about which I will not need to ask anyone after you’. (In Abu Usāmah’s narration: ‘about which I will not need to ask anyone else’.)
2. The Prophet said: ‘Say: I believe in God, then steadfastly pursue the right way’.
Related Quranic Verses
Say: ‘I am but a human being like yourselves. It has been revealed to me that your God is the One and only God. Therefore, take the straight path to Him and seek His forgiveness. Woe to those who associate partners with Him’.
(41: 6)
As for those who say: ‘Our Lord is God’, and then steadfastly pursue the right way. For these, the angels will descend, saying: ‘Have no fear, and do not grieve, but rejoice in the good news of paradise which you have been promised. (30) We are your guardians in the life of this world and in the life to come. There you shall have all that your souls desire, and all that you ask for’.
(41: 30-31)
