Softening The Heart: Kitāb az-Zuhd wa’r-Raqāʾiq

by Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

‘The first of those called to the Garden will be those who praise Allah in every state,’ or he said, ‘both in good times and in bad.’ (Ṣaghīr 288, Awsaṭ 3033 and Kabīr 12345).5