al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3904
✧ Repentance and Seeking Forgiveness
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا مُحْرِزُ بْنُ عَوْنٍ، ثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ مَطَرٍ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الْغَفُورِ، عَنْ أَبِي نُصَيْرَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي رَجَاءٍ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ ؓ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
« عَلَيْكُمْ بِلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَالِاسْتِغْفَارِ فَأَكْثِرُوا مِنْهُمَا ; فَإِنَّ إِبْلِيسَ قَالَ: أَهْلَكْتُ النَّاسَ بِالذُّنُوبِ، فَأَهْلَكُونِي بِلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَالِاسْتِغْفَارِ، فَلَمَّا رَأَيْتُ ذَلِكَ أَهْلَكْتُهُمْ بِالْأَهْوَاءِ وَهُمْ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ مُهْتَدُونَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Muḥriz b. ʿAwn
- ʿUthmān b. Maṭar
- ʿAbd al-Ghafūr
- Abū Nuṣayrah
- Abū Rajāʾ
- Abū Bakr
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ “Adhere to ‘there is no god but Allah’ and seeking forgiveness, and do them abundantly. For Iblis said: ‘I destroyed people with sins, but they destroyed me with “there is no god but Allah” and seeking forgiveness. When I saw that, I destroyed them with caprices, while they think they are rightly guided.’”
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
وفيه عثمان بن مطر وهو ضعيف
machine translationIn it is ʿUthmān b. Maṭar, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in المطالب العالية, p. 3904
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلمعن
- unknown (majhūl)أَبِي رَجَاءٍمجهولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 131 and 140 AHأَبِي نُصَيْرَةَثقةعن
- عَبْدُ الْغَفُورِحدثنا
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 171 AH and 180 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ مَطَرٍضعيفحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 231 AHمُحْرِزُ بْنُ عَوْنٍصدوقحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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