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السيوطي:١٧٠٤٨a –

" لله أَشَدُّ فَرَحًا بتَوْبَة عَبْدِهِ مِنْ أَحَدِكُمْ إذَا سَقَطَ عَلَيه بَعِيرُهُ قَدْ أضَلَّهُ بِأَرْضٍ فَلاةٍ".  

[خ] البخاري [م] مسلم عن أنس، [م] مسلم [ت] الترمذي عن أبي هريرة

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Collected by Bukhārī, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān

Allah is greatly pleased with the repentance

bukhari:6309 – Isḥāq > Ḥabbān > Hammām > Qatādah > Anas b. Mālik [Chain 2] Hudbah > Hammām > Qatādah > Anas

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His slave than anyone of you is pleased with finding his camel which he had lost in the desert."  

البخاري:٦٣٠٩ – حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ أَخْبَرَنَا حَبَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ حَدَّثَنَا أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَحَدَّثَنَا هُدْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «اللَّهُ أَفْرَحُ بِتَوْبَةِ عَبْدِهِ مِنْ أَحَدِكُمْ سَقَطَ عَلَى بَعِيرِهِ وَقَدْ أَضَلَّهُ فِي أَرْضِ فَلاَةٍ۔»  

ahmad:13227 – ʿAbd al-Ṣamad > ʿUmar b. Ibrāhīm > Qatādah > Anas

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said, "Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His servant than one of you who loses his camel in a barren desert and then finds it."  

أحمد:١٣٢٢٧ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ لَلَّهُ أَشَدُّ فَرَحًا بِتَوْبَةِ عَبْدِهِ مِنْ أَحَدِكُمْ أَنْ يَسْقُطَ عَلَى بَعِيرِهِ وَقَدْ أَضَلَّهُ بِأَرْضٍ فَلَاةٍ  

ذِكْرُ الْإِخْبَارِ عَمَّا يُسْتَحَبُّ لِلْمَرْءِ مِنْ لُزُومِ التَّوْبَةِ فِي أَوْقَاتِهِ وَأَسْبَابِهِ

ibnhibban:617 – al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Hudbah b. Khālid al-Qaysī > Hammām b. Yaḥyá > Qatādah > Anas

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His servant than one of you who finds his lost camel in a vast desert."  

ابن حبّان:٦١٧ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هُدْبَةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْقَيْسِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامُ بْنُ يَحْيَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «اللَّهُ أَشَدُّ فَرَحًا بِتَوْبَةِ عَبْدِهِ مِنْ أَحَدِكُمْ يَسْتَيْقِظُ عَلَى بَعِيرِهِ أَضَلَّهُ بِأَرْضٍ فَلَاةٍ»