Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 6788
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، أَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الرَّازِيُّ، سَمِعْتُ يُوسُفَ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ
يَقُولُ: سُئِلَ ذُو النُّونِ عَنِ الِاسْتِغْفَارِ، فَقَالَ: " يَا أَخِي الِاسْتِغْفَارُ اسْمٌ جَامِعٌ لِمَعَانٍ سِتَّةٍ: أَوَّلُهُنَّ النَّدَمُ عَلَى مَا مَضَى، وَالثَّانِي الْعَزْمُ عَلَى تَرْكِ الرُّجُوعِ إِلَى الذُّنُوبِ أَبَدًا، وَالثَّالِثُ إِذَا كَانَ فَرْضٌ ضَيَّعْتَهُ فِيمَا بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَالرَّابِعُ أَدَاءُ الْمَظَالِمِ إِلَى الْمَخْلُوقِينَ فِي أَمْوَالِهِمْ وَأَعْرَاضِهِمْ وَيُصَالِحُهُمْ عَلَيْهَا، وَالْخَامِسُ إِذَابَةُ كُلِّ لَحْمٍ وَدَمٍ نَبَتَ مِنَ الْحَرَامِ، وَالسَّادِسُ إِذَاقَةُ الْبَدَنِ أَلَمَ الطَّاعَاتِ كَمَا ذَاقَ حَلَاوَةَ الْمَعْصِيَةِ "
Translation
Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū Muḥammad b. Yūsuf informed us: Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh al-Rāzī informed us: I heard Yūsuf b. al-Ḥusayn.
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He said: Dhū al-Nūn was asked about seeking forgiveness (istighfār), and he said: "O my brother, seeking forgiveness is a name that comprises six meanings: the first of them is regret over what has passed; the second is the resolve never to return to sins; the third is, if there is an obligation that you neglected between you and Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, to fulfil it; the fourth is to give back wrongs owed to creatures, in their wealth and their honour, and to reconcile with them over it; the fifth is to melt away every piece of flesh and blood that grew from the unlawful; and the sixth is to make the body taste the pain of acts of obedience just as it tasted the sweetness of disobedience."
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