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ibnmajah:4247Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Shabābah > And Rqāʾ > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

“Allah rejoiced more over the repentance of anyone of you, then you rejoice over your lost animal when you find it.”  

ابن ماجة:٤٢٤٧حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا شَبَابَةُ حَدَّثَنَا وَرْقَاءُ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ ﷻ أَفْرَحُ بِتَوْبَةِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنْهُ بِضَالَّتِهِ إِذَا وَجَدَهَا  


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muslim:2675iʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah b. Qaʿnab al-Qaʿnabī > al-Mughīrah / Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ḥizāmī > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

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.  

مسلم:٢٦٧٥iحَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ قَعْنَبٍ الْقَعْنَبِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْمُغِيرَةُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحِزَامِيَّ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَلَّهُ أَشَدُّ فَرَحًا بِتَوْبَةِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنْ أَحَدِكُمْ بِضَالَّتِهِ إِذَا وَجَدَهَا