Musnad Ahmad 8972

Translation

✧ Verily, God, Mighty and Majestic, has angels who roam about as extra ones, seeking gatherings of remembrance. When they find a gathering in which there is remembrance, they sit with them and enfold one another with their wings until they fill what is between them and the lowest heaven. When they disperse, they ascend—or go up—to heaven. He said: God, Mighty and Majestic, asks them, though He knows best: "From where have you come?" They say: "We come from some servants of Yours on earth who glorify You, magnify You, praise You, declare Your oneness, and ask of You." He said: "And what do they ask of Me?" They say: "They ask You for Your Paradise." He said: "Have they seen My Paradise?" They say: "No, O Lord." He said: "How then if they had seen My Paradise?" They say: "And they seek Your protection." He said: "From what do they seek My protection?" They say: "From Your Fire, O Lord." He said: "Have they seen My Fire?" They say: "No." He said: "And they seek Your forgiveness." He said: Then He says: "I have forgiven them, given them what they asked for, and protected them from what they sought protection from." He said: They say: "O Lord, among them is so-and-so, a sinful servant who merely passed by and sat with them." He said: Then He says: "I have forgiven him. They are a people whose companion is not made wretched."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2689

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Dhakwān al-Sammān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ

   truthful (ṣadūq); his memory deteriorated at the end of his lifed. 138 AH, or: 140 AH, or: 141 AH, in Tārīkh Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim: 128 AH
   سُهَيْلٌصدوق , تغير حفظه بآخره
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Wuhayb

   memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he changed slightly at the end of his lifed. 165 AH, also said: 169 AH
   وُهَيْبٌالحافظ ، ثقة ثبت ، لكنه تغير قليلا بآخره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   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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