صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
كتاب التوبة
The Book of Repentance
باب فِي سَعَةِ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَأَنَّهَا سَبَقَتْ غَضَبَهُ:
Chapter: The Vastaess Of Allah's Mercy, Which Prevails Over His Wrath
Hadith 2756
This hadith is listed as number 6983 in Maktaba Shamila
حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ ، حَدَّثَنِي الزُّبَيْدِيُّ ، قَالَ الزُّهْرِيُّ : حَدَّثَنِي حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، يَقُولُ : أَسْرَفَ عَبْدٌ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ ، بِنَحْوِ حَدِيثِ مَعْمَرٍ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ : فَغَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ ، وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ حَدِيثَ الْمَرْأَةِ فِي قِصَّةِ الْهِرَّةِ ، وَفِي حَدِيثِ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ ، قَالَ : فَقَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ : لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ أَخَذَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا أَدِّ مَا أَخَذْتَ مِنْهُ .
Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that a servant transgressed the limit in committing sins. The rest of the hadith is the same but there is no mention of the story of the cat in it and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Zubaidi (the words are): "Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said to everything which had taken a part of his ashes to return what it had taken."
