The Book of Repentance

Book 50 of 57 · Sahih Muslim

68 hadith Hadith 6782–6849 Sunni
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Book 50 of 57

The Book of Repentance

Sahih Muslim

68 hadith Hadith 6782–6849 Sunni

About This Book

Compiled during the 837–875 CE period by ibn al-Hajjaj.

The Book of Repentance is book 50 of 57 in Sahih Muslim, containing 68 hadith.

Geography

This collection was compiled primarily in Nishapur (Naysabur), Khorasan.

Narrators in This Book

This book features 27 narrators in its chains of transmission. The most frequently cited are Abu Hurairah, Abdullah, Anas, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, Abu Burda bin Niyar.

Hadith in This Book 68 hadith

1 6782 Sahih
Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: I live in the thought of My servant and I am with him as he remembers Me. (The Holy Prophet) further said: By Allah, Allah is more pleased…
2 6783 Sahih
Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His servant when he turns penitently towards Him than one of you would be on finding the lost camel.
3 6784 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira through another chain of transmitters.
4 6785 Sahih
I went to see 'Abdullah to inquire about his health as he was sick and he narrated to us a hadith of Allahs Messenger (ﷺ). He heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Allah is more…
5 6786 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of A'mash through another chain of transmitters.
6 6787 Sahih
Allah is more pleased with the repentance of a believing man. The rest of the hadith is the same.
7 6788 Sahih
Allah is more pleased with the repentance of a believing servant than of a person who set out on a journey with a provision of food and drink on the back of his camel. He went on…
8 6789 Sahih
What is your opinion about the delight of a person whose camel loaded with the provisions of food and drink is lost and that moves about with its nosestring trailing upon the…
9 6790 Sahih
Allah is more pleased with the repentance of a servant as he turns towards Him for repentance than this that one amongst you is upon the camel in a waterless desert and there is…
10 6791 Sahih
Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His servant than if one of you gets up and he finds his camel missing in a waterless desert (and then he accidentally finds it). This…
11 6792 Sahih
I used to conceal from you a thing which I heard from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Had you not committed sins, Allah would have brought into…
12 6793 Sahih
If you were not to commit sins, Allah would have swept you out of existence and would have replaced you by another people who have committed sin, and then asked forgiveness from…
13 6794 Sahih
By Him in Whose Hand is my life, if you were not to commit sin, Allah would sweep you out of existence and He would replace (you by) those people who would commit sin and seek…
14 6795 Sahih
I met Abu Bakr. He said: Who are you? He (Hanzala) said: Hanzala has turned to be a hypocrite. He (Abu Bakr) said: Hallowed be Allah, what are you saying? Thereupon he said: I say…
15 6796 Sahih
We were in the company of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and he delivered to us a sermon and made a mention of Hell-Fire. Then I came to my house and began to laugh with my children and…
16 6797 Sahih
We were in the presence of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and he brought to our minds the problems pertaining to Paradise and Hell-Fire. The rest of the hadith is the same.
17 6798 Sahih
When Allah created the creation as He was upon the Throne, He put down in His Book: Verily, My mercy predominates My wrath.
18 6799 Sahih
Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: My mercy excels My wrath.
19 6800 Sahih
When Allah created the creation, He ordained for Himself and this document is with Him: Verily, My mercy predominates Mv wrath.
20 6801 Sahih
I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Allah created mercy in one hundred parts and He retained with Him ninety-nine parts, and He has sent down upon the earth one part, and it…
21 6802 Sahih
Allah created one hundred (parts of mercy) and He distributed one amongst His creation and kept this one hundred excepting one with Himself (for the Day of Resurrection).
22 6803 Sahih
There are one hundred (parts of) mercy for Allah and He has sent down out of these one part of mercy upon the jinn and human beings and animals and the insects, and it is because…
23 6804 Sahih
Verily, there are one hundred (parts of) mercy for Allah, and it is one part of this mercy by virtue of which there is mutual love between the people and ninety-nine reserved for…
24 6805 Sahih
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Mu'tamir, reported on the authority of his father.
25 6806 Sahih
Verily, Allah created, on the same very day when He created the heavens and the earth, one hundred parts of mercy. Every part of mercy is coextensive with the space between the…
26 6807 Sahih
Do you think this woman would ever afford to throw her child in the Fire? We said: By Allah, so far as it lies in her power, she would never throw the child in Fire. ' Thereupon…
27 6808 Sahih
If a believer were to know the punishment (in Hell) none would have the audacity to aspire for Paradise (but he would earnestly desire to be rescued from Hell), and if a…
28 6809 Sahih
My Lord, it is out of Thine fear that I have done it and Thou art well aware of it, and Allah granted him pardon:.
29 6810 Sahih
(When I die), bum my dead body and then cast them (the ashes) to the wind and in the ocean. By Allah, if my Lord takes hold of me, He would torment me as He has not tormented…
30 6811 Sahih
" Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said to everything which had taken a part of lies ashes to return what it had taken."
31 6812 Sahih
'You must do as I command you to do, otherwise I will make others besides you as my inheritors. As I die, burn my body and blow my ashes in the wind as I do not find any merit of…
32 6813 Sahih
" I find no good in store for rxie in the eye of Allah."
33 6814 Sahih
O Allah, forgive me my sins, and Allah (the Exalted and Glorious) said: My servant commited a sin and then he came to realise that he has a Lord Who forgives the sins and takes to…
34 6815 Sahih
The hadlth has been narrated on the authority of 'Abd al-A'la b. Hammad with the same chain of transmitters.
35 6816 Sahih
Abu Huraira reported lie heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that a servant committed a sin. The rest of the hadith is the same, but there is a slight variation of wording.
36 6817 Sahih
Abu Musa reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, Stretches out His Hand during the night so that the people may repent for the fault…
37 6818 Sahih
Nothing is more loveable to Allah than His praise as He has praised Himself and no one is more self-respecting than Allah Himself and it As because of this that He has prohibited…
38 6819 Sahih
None is more self-respectidg than Allah and it is because of this that He has prohibited abominable acts-both visible and invisible-and none loves His praise more than Allah…
39 6820 Sahih
None is more self-respecting than Allah and it is because of this that He has prohibited abominable acts-both visible and invisible and nothing is loved by Allah more than the…
40 6821 Sahih
None loves one's own praise more than Allah, the Exalted and Glurious, does. It is because of this that He has praised Himself, and none is more self-respecting than Allah and it…
41 6822 Sahih
Allah is self-respecting and a believer is also self-respecting and the respect of Allah is injured if a believer does what He has forbidden him to do.
42 6823 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Asma' daughter of Abu Bakr, through another chain of transmitters.
43 6824 Sahih
There is none more self-respecting than Allah, the Exalted and Glorious There is no mention of the narration of Asma'.
44 6825 Sahih
There is none more self-respecting than Allah, the Exalted and Glorious.
45 6826 Sahih
A believer is self-respecting and Allah is extremely self-respecting.
46 6827 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba through another chain of transmitters.
47 6828 Sahih
" And observe prayer at the (two) ends of the day and in the first hours of the night. Surely, good deeds take away evil deeds. That is a reminder for the mindful" (xi. 115). That…
48 6829 Sahih
Ibn Mas'ud reported that a person came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and told him that he had kissed a woman or touched her with his hand or did something like this. He inquired of him…
49 6830 Sahih
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Sulaiman Taimi with the same chain of transmitters that a person had taken liberty with a woman less than fomication. He came to…
50 6831 Sahih
Allah's Messenger, I sported with a woman in the outskirts of Medina, and I have committed an offence short of fornication. Here I am (before you), kindly deliver verdict about me…
51 6832 Sahih
Mu'adh said: Allah's Messenger, does it concern this particular case or to all of us? And he (the Holy Prophet) said: Of course, to all of you.
52 6833 Sahih
Allah's Messenger, I have committed an offence which deserves imposition of haad, so impose it upon me according to the Book of Allah. Thereupon he said: Were you not present with…
53 6834 Sahih
We were sitting in the mosque in the company of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). A person came there and said: Allah's Messenger, I have committed an offence which deserves the imposition…
54 6835 Sahih
There was a person before you who had killed ninety-nine persons and then made an inquiry about the learned persons of the world (who could show him the way to salvation). He was…
55 6836 Sahih
There is no chance for repentance for you. He killed the monk also and then began to make an inquiry and moved from one village to another village where there lived pious persons,…
56 6837 Sahih
" Allah commanded the earth (from where) he wanted to come out to move itself away and to the other earth (where he wanted to go) to draw nearer."
57 6838 Sahih
When it will be the Day of Resurrection Allah would deliver to every Muslim a Jew or a Christian and say: That is your rescue from Hell-Fire.
58 6839 Sahih
No Muslim would die but Allah would admit in his stead a Jew or a Christian in Hell-Fire. 'Umar b. Abd al-'Aziz took an oath: By One besides Whom there is no god but He, thrice…
59 6840 Sahih
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of 'Aun b. Utba.
60 6841 Sahih
There would come people amongst the Muslims on the Day of Resurrection with as heavy sins as a mountain, and Allah would forgive them and He would place in their stead the Jews…
61 6842 Sahih
How did you hear Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying something about intimate conversation? He said: I heard him say: A believer will be brought to his Lord, the Exalted and Glorious,…
62 6843 Sahih
I never remained behind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) from any expedition which he undertook except the Battle of Tabuk and that of the Battle of Badr. So far as the Battle of Badr is…
63 6844 Sahih
When Allah's Messenger (may. peace be upon him) intended to set on an expedition he kept It as a secret, but. be did not do so in thic. expedition. And in the narration…
64 6845 Sahih
I heard my father Ka'b b. Malik, and he fas one of those three whose repentance was accepted (by Allah). He transmitted that He never lagged behind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) from any…
65 6846 Sahih
'A'isha said: Whenever Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) intended to set out on a journey he cast lots amongst his wives and he took one with him in whose favour the lot was cast. It so…
66 6847 Sahih
" 'A'isha did not like that Hassan should be rebuked in her presence and she used to say: It was he who wrote this verse also:" 'Verily, my father and my mother and my honour,…
67 6848 Sahih
When I came under discussion what the people had to say about me, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) stood up for delivering an address and he recited tashahhud (I bear witness to the fact…
68 6849 Sahih
Go and strike his neck. 'Ali came to him and he found him in a well making his body cool. 'Ali said to him: Come out, and as he took hold of his hand and brought him out, he found…