Take Benefit From Five Things Before Five Things Will Be Happening

Take Benefit From Five Things Before Five Things Will Be Happening:

(1) Your Youth Before Your Old Age,
(2) Your Health Before Your Sickness,
(3) Your Wealth Before Your Poverty,
(4) Your Free Time Before You Are Preoccupied,
(5) And Your Life Before Your Death

Please note this great Hadith is narrated by Ibn Abbas (radiya-Allaahu anahu), as the Prophet (swalla-Allaahu alayhi wa-sallam) was delivering an admonition to a man.

اغتنم خمسا قبل خمس شبابك قبل هرمك وصحتك قبل سقمك وغناءك قبل فقرك وفراغك قبل شغلك وحياتك قبل موتك.

“Your youth before your old age, your health before your sickness, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before you are preoccupied, and your life before your death.”

[It is an authentic sound Hadith recorded by Imam Al-Haakim in his Al-Mustadrak, Hadith # 7846 (4/341), Ibn Abi Shaybah, Hadith # 34319 (7/77), and Al-Qdhaee in Musnad Al-Shihaab, Hadith # 729 (1/425).

Sheikh Al-Albani graded this Hadith as “Saheeh” authentic in his Saheeh Al-Jaami’, Hadith # 1077, and Saheeh Al-Targheeb wal-Tarheeb, Hadith # 3355].