Umm Salama, the wife of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying:
If any servant (of Allah) who suffers a calamity says: We belong to Allah and to Him shall we return; O Allah, reward me for my affliction and give me something better than it in exchange for it, ' Allah will give him reward for affliction, and would give him something better than it in exchange. She (Umm Salama) said: When Abu Salama died. I uttered (these very words) as I was commanded (to do) by the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ). So Allah gave me better in exchange than him. i. e. (I was taken as the wife of) the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ).