Musnad Ahmad 17307

Translation

✧ The likeness of the one who does evil deeds and then does good deeds is like a man who had a tight coat of mail that was choking him. Then he did a good deed, and one ring loosened. Then he did another good deed, and another ring loosened, until he came out onto the ground.

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Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir b. ʿAbs al-Faraḍī

   a well-known Companiond. 58 AH, or: close to 60 AH
   عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ بْنِ عَبْسٍ الْفَرَضِيُّصحابي مشهور
   سمع
2. 2
   Abū al-Khayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 90 AH
   أَبُو الْخَيْرِثقة فقيه
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb al-Azdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AH
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسل
   حدثني
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
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخير
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   ʿAlī b. Isḥāq

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 213 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.