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406. Asmā' bin Al-Ḥakam Al-Fazārī said: "I heard 'Alī saying: 'Indeed I am a man who, when I hear a Hadīth from Allāh's Messenger ﷺ then Allāh causes me to benefit from it as much as He wills for me to benefit from it. When a man among his Companions narrates to me I ask him to swear an oath to me about it, and when he swears an oath to me I trust him. And Abū Bakr narrated to me – and Abū Bakr told the truth – he said: "I heard Allāh's Messenger ﷺ saying: 'There is no man who commits a sin, then makes Wuḍū', then performs Ṣalāt, then seeks forgiveness from Allāh, except that Allāh forgives him.' Then he recited this Āyah: Those who, when they have committed Fāḥishah or
wronged themselves with evil, remember Allāh.[1] until the end of the Āyah.” (Hasan)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from Ibn Mas’ūd, Abū Ad-Dardā’, Anas, Abū Umāmah, Mu’ādh, Wāthilah, and Abū Al-Yasar, and his name is Ka’b bin ‘Amr.
Abū ‘Eisā said: The Ḥadīth of ‘Alī is a Hasan Ḥadīth, we do not know of it except from this route as a narration of ‘Uthmān bin Al-Mughīrah. Shu’bah and others reported it from him as a Marfū’ narrations like that of Abū ‘Awānah. (a narrator in the chain of this Ḥadīth).
Sufyān Ath-Thawrī and Mis’ar narrated it in Mawqūf form, without attributing it to the Prophet ﷺ. And this Ḥadīth was reported from Mis’ar as a Marfū’ narration as well.
[And we do not know a Marfū’ Ḥadīth narrated by Asmā’ bin Al-Ḥakam except for this.]
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Repentance and seeking forgiveness are necessary for everybody. Tawbah is to return and consult i.e., to express remorse and regret about wrong doings and then to adopt the right way of practice, and to determine steadfastness on it in the future. Istighfār means: to seek forgiveness and pardon.
