al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14912
Ikrimah from Abdullah b. Amr
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزِّنْباعِ رَوْحُ بْنُ الْفَرَجِ الْمِصْرِيُّ ثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عُفَيْرٍ ثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْخَيْرِ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ
أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِنَّ مَثَلَ الَّذِي يَعْمَلُ السَّيِّئَاتِ ثُمَّ يَعْمَلُ الْحَسَنَاتِ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ دِرْعٌ ضَيِّقَةٌ قَدْ خَنَقَتْهُ ثُمَّ عَمِلَ حَسَنَةً فَانْفَكَّتْ حَلْقَةٌ ثُمَّ عَمِلَ أُخْرَى فَانْفَكَّتْ حَلْقَةٌ أُخْرَى حَتَّى يَخْرُجَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ»
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Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Zinbāʿ Rawḥ b. al-Faraj al-Miṣrī
- Saʿīd b. ʿUfayr
- Ibn Lahīʿah
- Yazīd b. Abū Ḥabīb
- Abū al-Khayr
- ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir
✧ He heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “The likeness of one who does evil deeds then does good deeds is like a man who had on a tight coat of mail that was choking him. Then he did a good deed, and one ring loosened. Then he did another, and another ring loosened, until it came off onto the ground.”
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2375عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ مَثَلَ الَّذِي يعْمل السَّيئَة ثُمَّ يَعْمَلُ الْحَسَنَاتِ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ دِرْعٌ ضَيِّقَةٌ قَدْ خَنَقَتْهُ ثُمَّ عَمِلَ حَسَ