Muwatta 2711

Malik transmits from Zayd ibn Aslam, from Ata ibn Yasar, that the Messenger of God ﷺ said: when the servant falls ill, God sends two angels to him and says: see what he says to those who visit him. If, when they come to him, he praises God and extols Him, they lift that up to God, who knows best. He says: for my servant, if I take him, is that I shall admit him to Paradise; and if I heal him, I shall replace his flesh with better flesh and his blood with better blood, and I shall expiate his misdeeds. The editor notes that Ibn Abd al-Barr held the hadith is relayed (mursal) in all Muwatta transmitters, and that Abbad ibn Kathir al-Thaqafi connected it, though he is abandoned (matruk). ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Comprehensive Matters (al-Jami). Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas, Zayd ibn Aslam, Ata ibn Yasar. Built on in the chapters on illness (maradh).