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ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ تَارِكَ السَّيِّئَةِ إِذَا اهْتَمَّ بِهَا يَكْتُبُ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِفَضْلِهِ حَسَنَةً بِهَا

ibnhibban:380al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥubāb > Ibrāhīm b. Bashhār al-Ramādī > Sufyān > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah Yablugh Bih

[Machine] The Prophet (pbuh) said: "Allah, the Most Blessed and Exalted, says: 'When My servant intends to do a good deed, record it as one good deed. If he actually does it, record it for him as ten good deeds. If he intends to do a bad deed but does not do it, record it as one good deed.'"  

ابن حبّان:٣٨٠أَخْبَرَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ الرَّمَادِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ يَبْلُغُ بِهِ

النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «قَالَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى إِذَا هَمَّ عَبْدِي بِحَسَنَةٍ فَاكْتُبُوهَا حَسَنَةً فَإِذَا عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا بِعَشْرِ أَمْثَالِهَا وَإِذَا هَمَّ عَبْدِي بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلَا تَكْتُبُوهَا بِمِثْلِهَا فَإِنْ تَرَكَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا حَسَنَةً»  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Muslim, Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
bukhari:7501Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > al-Mughīrah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Allah says, 'If My slave intends to do a bad deed then (O Angels) do not write it unless he does it; if he does it, then write it as it is, but if he refrains from doing it for My Sake, then write it as a good deed (in his account). (On the other hand) if he intends to do a good deed, but does not do it, then write a good deed (in his account), and if he does it, then write it for him (in his account) as ten good deeds up to seven-hundred times.' "  

البخاري:٧٥٠١حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ إِذَا أَرَادَ عَبْدِي أَنْ يَعْمَلَ سَيِّئَةً فَلاَ تَكْتُبُوهَا عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَعْمَلَهَا فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا بِمِثْلِهَا وَإِنْ تَرَكَهَا مِنْ أَجْلِي فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ حَسَنَةً وَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ حَسَنَةً فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ حَسَنَةً فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ بِعَشْرِ أَمْثَالِهَا إِلَى سَبْعِمِائَةٍ  

muslim:128aAbū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah And Zuhayr b. Ḥarb Waʾisḥāq b. Ibrāhīm Wa-al-Lafẓ Lʾabī Bakr > Isḥāq > Sufyān > al-Ākharān > Ibn ʿUyaynah > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

The Great and the Glorious Lord said (to angels): Whenever My bondsman intends to corn it an evil, do not record it against him, but if he actually commits it, then write it as one evil. And when he intends to do good but does not do it, then take it down is one act of goodness, but if he does it, then write down ten good deeds (in his record).  

مسلم:١٢٨aحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَاللَّفْظُ لأَبِي بَكْرٍ قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ وَقَالَ الآخَرَانِ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ اللَّهُ ﷻ إِذَا هَمَّ عَبْدِي بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلاَ تَكْتُبُوهَا عَلَيْهِ فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا سَيِّئَةً وَإِذَا هَمَّ بِحَسَنَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا حَسَنَةً فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا عَشْرًا  

tirmidhi:3073Ibn Abū ʿUmar > Sufyān > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Allah, Blessed and Most High, has said - and His saying is the Truth: 'When My slave considers doing something good then write it as one good for him. If he acts upon it then write ten of the same for him. And when he considers doing something evil, then do not write it. If he acts upon it, then write it. If he leaves it" - and perhaps he said: "if he does not act upon it, then write a good reward for him.'" Then he [the Prophet ﷺ] recited: Whoever comes with a good, then he shall have ten the like thereof (6:160).  

Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ.
الترمذي:٣٠٧٣حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ قَالَ اللَّهُ ﷻ وَقَوْلُهُ الْحَقُّ إِذَا هَمَّ عَبْدِي بِحَسَنَةٍ فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ حَسَنَةً فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ بِعَشْرِ أَمْثَالِهَا وَإِذَا هَمَّ بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلاَ تَكْتُبُوهَا فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا بِمِثْلِهَا فَإِنْ تَرَكَهَا وَرُبَّمَا قَالَ لَمْ يَعْمَلْ بِهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ حَسَنَةً ثُمَّ قَرَأَ ( مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ عَشْرُ أَمْثَالِهَا )  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
ahmad:7296Sufyān > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] From the Prophet ﷺ who said: Allah says, "If My servant intends to do a good deed, but does not do it, then write it as one good deed. If he actually does it, then write it as ten good deeds. If he intends to do a bad deed, but does not do it, then do not write it. If he actually does it, then write it as one bad deed."  

أحمد:٧٢٩٦حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ قَالَ اللهُ ﷻ إِنْ هَمَّ عَبْدِي بِحَسَنَةٍ فَاكْتُبُوهَا فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا بِعَشْرِ أَمْثَالِهَا وَإِنْ هَمَّ بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلَا تَكْتُبُوهَا فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا بِمِثْلِهَا فَإِنْ تَرَكَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا حَسَنَةً  

ذِكْرُ تَفْضُلِ اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَعَلَا بِكَتْبِهِ حَسَنَةً وَاحِدَةً لِمَنْ هَمَّ بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا وَكَتْبِهِ سَيِّئَةً وَاحِدَةً، إِذَا عَمِلَهَا مَعَ مَحْوِهَا عَنْهُ إِذَا تَابَ

ibnhibban:381Ismāʿīl b. Dāwud b. And Rdān Bimiṣr > Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyá al-Waqqār > Ibn Wahb > Mālik > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] On the authority of Allah's Messenger ﷺ , who said, "When my servant intends to commit a bad deed but does not act upon it, then write it down as a good deed for him. And if he acts upon it, then write it down as a bad deed for him. But if he regrets it and seeks forgiveness, then erase it from him. And when my servant intends to do a good deed but does not do it, then write it down as a good deed for him. And if he does it, then write it down for him with ten times its reward up to seven hundred times."  

ابن حبّان:٣٨١أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ بْنِ وَرْدَانَ بِمِصْرَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى الْوَقَّارُ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنِ اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَعَلَا قَالَ «إِذَا هَمَّ عَبْدِي بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ حَسَنَةً فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ سَيِّئَةً فَإِنْ تَابَ مِنْهَا فَامْحُوهَا عَنْهُ وَإِذَا هَمَّ عَبْدِي بِحَسَنَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ حَسَنَةً فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ بِعَشْرَةِ أَمْثَالِهَا إِلَى سَبْعِ مِائَةِ ضِعْفٍ»  

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ تَارِكَ السَّيِّئَةِ، إِنَّمَا يُكْتَبُ لَهُ بِهَا حَسَنَةً إِذَا تَرَكَهَا لِلَّهِ

ibnhibban:382ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī > al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ > Shabābah > And Rqāʾ > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said, "Indeed, Allah said, 'When My servant intends to engage in an evil action, do not record it against him until he actually commits it. If he commits it, then record it as it is. If he refrains from it for My sake, then record it as a good deed. If he intends to perform a good deed, then record it as a good deed for him. And if he actually performs it, then record it as ten times its like, up to seven hundred times.'"  

ابن حبّان:٣٨٢أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الصَّبَّاحِ حَدَّثَنَا شَبَابَةُ عَنْ وَرْقَاءَ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَالَ إِذَا أَرَادَ عَبْدِي أَنْ يَعْمَلَ سَيِّئَةً فَلَا تَكْتُبُوهَا عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَعْمَلْهَا فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا مِثْلَهَا فَإِنْ تَرَكَهَا مِنْ أَجْلِي فَاكْتُبُوهَا حَسَنَةً فَإِنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ حَسَنَةً فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ حَسَنَةً فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ عَشْرَةَ أَمْثَالِهَا إِلَى سَبْعِ مِائَةِ ضِعْفٍ»  

قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى: {مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ عَشْرُ أَمْثَالِهَا} [الأنعام: 160]

nasai-kubra:11117Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Sufyān > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

The Great and the Glorious Lord said (to angels): Whenever My bondsman intends to corn it an evil, do not record it against him, but if he actually commits it, then write it as one evil. And when he intends to do good but does not do it, then take it down is one act of goodness, but if he does it, then write down ten good deeds (in his record). (Using translation from Muslim 128a)   

الكبرى للنسائي:١١١١٧أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ اللهُ تَعَالَى إِذَا هَمَّ عَبْدِي بِحَسَنَةٍ فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا بِعَشْرِ أَمْثَالِهَا وَإِذَا هَمَّ بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلَا تَكْتُبُوهَا فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا وَاحِدَةً وَإِنْ تَرَكَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا حَسَنَةً  

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السيوطي:١٦٢١٤a

"قَال اللهُ ﷻ: إِذَا هَمَّ عَبْدِي بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلْم يَعْمَلْهَا, فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ حَسَنَةً، فَإِنّ عَمِلَهَا، فَاكْتُبَوهَا لَهُ سَيِّئَةً، فَإِنْ تَابَ مِنْهَا فَامْحُوهَا عَنْهُ، وَإنْ هَمَّ عَبْدِي بحَسَنَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ حَسَنَةً، فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا فَاكْتُبُوهَا لَهُ بِعَشْرَةِ أَمْثَالهَا إِلَي سَبْعِمائةِ ضِعْفٍ".  

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