al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7704
✧ Mercy and Anger
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أَخْبَرَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ الْحَفَرِيُّ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَمَّا فَرَغَ اللهُ مِنَ الْخَلْقِ كَتَبَ عَلَى عَرْشِهِ إِنَّ رَحْمَتِي سَبَقَتْ غَضَبِي» قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ «رَحْمَتِي تَغْلِبُ غَضَبِي وَهُوَ فَوْقَ الْعَرْشِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān
- Wakīʿ Waʾabū Dāwud al-Ḥafarī
- Sufyān
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: When Allah completed the creation, He wrote upon His Throne: My mercy precedes My anger. Abu Dawud said: 'My mercy prevails over My anger, and it is above the Throne.'
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