Musnad Ahmad 11729

Translation

✧ Iblis said: My Lord, I will not cease to mislead the children of Adam as long as their souls are in their bodies. He said: So the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, said: I will not cease to forgive them as long as they seek My forgiveness.

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  أحد إسنادي أحمد رجاله رجال الصحيح وكذلك أحد إسنادي أبي يعلى

  in مسند أحمد, p. 11849

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū al-Haytham

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Darrāj

   truthful (ṣadūq) in his narration from Abū al-Haytham, deemed weakd. 126 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: 182 AH
   دَرَّاجٍصدوق في حديثه عن أبي الهيثم ، ضعف
   عن
4. 4
   Ibn Lahīʿah

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AH
   ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهما
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyā b. Isḥāq

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 210 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ إِسْحَاقَصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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