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السيوطي:٢٥١-١٩٠b

"عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ: لَوْ لَمْ يُذْنِبُوا أَوْ يُخْطِئُوا لَجَاءَ الله بِقَوْمٍ يُذْنِبُونَ وَيُخْطِئُونَ يَغْفِرُ لَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيامَةِ".  

[خ] البخاري في تاريخه، [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه

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Collected by Ṭabarānī, Suyūṭī
tabarani:3992Muṣʿab b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥamzah al-Zubayrī from my father > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad > ʿUmar a freed slave of Ghufrah > Muḥammad b. Kaʿb al-Quraẓī > Abū Ayyūb

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If you did not sin, Allah would have replaced you with people who would sin and He would forgive them."  

الطبراني:٣٩٩٢حَدَّثَنَا مُصْعَبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ حَمْزَةَ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ مَوْلَى غُفْرَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَوْ لَمْ تُذْنِبُوا لَجَاءَ اللهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُذْنِبُونَ وَيَغْفِرُ لَهُمْ»  

tabarani:12794Abū Shuʿayb ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarrānī > Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Wāqid al-Ḥarrānī > Yaḥyá b. ʿAmr b. Mālik al-Nukrī from his father > Abū al-Jawzāʾ > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If you did not commit sins, Allah would replace you with people who would commit sins and seek His forgiveness."  

الطبراني:١٢٧٩٤حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو شُعَيْبٍ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْحَرَّانِيُّ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ وَاقِدٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَالِكٍ النُّكْرِيُّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَوْزَاءِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَوْ لَمْ تُذْنِبُوا لَجَاءَ اللهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُذْنِبُونَ فَيَغْفِرُ لَهُمْ»