Chapter 266
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 266
What to say when seeing someone whom Allah has afflicted with sickness
Arabic
Romanisation
Al-ḥamdu li-llāhi-lladhī ‘āfānī mim-ma-btalāka bihi wa faḍḍalanī ‘alā kathīrin mimman khalaqa tafḍīlā.
Context
WE RELATE FROM the book of at-Tirmidhī that Abū Hurayrah 
related that the Messenger of Allah 
said: “Whoever sees an afflicted person and says: ‘Praise be to Allah, Who has protected me from that with which He has afflicted you, and has favoured me greatly over many of those whom He created’ will not suffer from the same affliction.” [1].At-Tirmidhī describes this hadith as ḥasan.
References
[1] At-Tirmidhī (3428), who states that this hadith is ḥasan gharīb by this line of narration.