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[6958] 5 - (2745) It was narrated that Simāk said: "An-Nu'mān bin Bashīr delivered a Khutbah and said: 'Verily, Allāh rejoices more over the repentance of His slave than a man who loads his provisions on his camel then travels until he is in the wilderness, then the time for a nap comes, so he dismounts and takes a nap beneath a tree, but sleep overwhelms him, and his camel runs away. Then he wakes up and climbs a hill but he does not see anything. Then he climbs a second hill but he does not see anything. Then he climbs a third hill but he does not see anything, so he goes back to the place where he took his nap, and while he is sitting there, his camel comes walking and places its reins in his hand. Allāh rejoices more over the repentance of His slave than this man when he finds his camel as it had left him.” Simāk said: “Ash-Sha’bī said that An-Nu’mān attributed this Hadīth to the Prophet ﷺ, but I did not hear that.”