Hadith 2749

This hadith is listed as number 6965 in Maktaba Shamila

حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ ، عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ الْجَزَرِيِّ ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ الْأَصَمِّ ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَوْ لَمْ تُذْنِبُوا لَذَهَبَ اللَّهُ بِكُمْ ، وَلَجَاءَ بِقَوْمٍ يُذْنِبُونَ فَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَ اللَّهَ فَيَغْفِرُ لَهُمْ " .
Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) having said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, if you were not to commit sin, Allah would sweep you out of existence and He would replace (you by) those people who would commit sin and seek forgiveness from Allah, and He would have pardoned them.
Hadith Reference صحيح مسلم / كتاب التوبة / 2749
Hadith Grading محدثین: أحاديث صحيح مسلم كلها صحيحة
Hadith Takhrij «أحاديث صحيح مسلم كلها صحيحة»
Related hadith on this topic
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Explanation:
1:
The meaning is that every human being commits sins, but those people are more beloved to Allah who, after committing a sin, do not persist in it; rather, they repent and seek forgiveness, and they supplicate and express humility before Allah with their sins. This absolutely does not mean that Allah likes the commission of sin; rather, the purpose of this hadith is to clarify the importance of repentance and seeking forgiveness.

Note:
(The author has declared this chain to be weak and disconnected. In the chain, Ziyad al-Tai is a majhool (unknown) narrator, who has narrated from Abu Hurairah in a mursal (disconnected) manner, meaning there is a break in the chain, as the author has explicitly stated. Then he mentioned the narration of Abu Mudillah, who is a weak narrator. However, most of the phrases of the hadith are established. Hafiz Ibn Hajar has called Abu Mudillah, the freed slave of Aisha, maqbool (acceptable). The phrase in the hadith "mimma khalaqa al-khalq" is weak due to the absence of a supporting narration. Likewise, the phrase "thalath la turadd... to the end of the hadith" is also weak (Da‘if al-Jami‘ 2592, al-Da‘ifah 1359). However, the first phrase of the hadith is authentic, which is narrated from Hanzalah al-Usaydi in Sahih Muslim (al-Tawbah: 2/2749), Tirmidhi (2514, 2452), Ibn Majah (4236), and Musnad Ahmad (4/187, 346). As for the second phrase "walaw lam tuthnibu," al-Albani has traced it through various routes and authenticated it (al-Sahihah nos. 967, 968, 969, 970, 1950, 1951, 1965). The phrase "and Paradise is built of bricks... and their youth will never fade" is also hasan (good) (al-Siraj al-Munir 8083).
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 2526