´Narrated Ali bin Abu Talib:` that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Whoever is penalized (for a crime) then his punishment has been hastened for him in the world, for Allah is more just than to double the punishment upon His slave in the Hereafter. And whoever does a punishable act and then Allah covers it for him and forgives him, then Allah is more kind than to recount something which He has already forgiven."
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Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Commentary:
Note:
(In the chain of narration, although Hajjaj ibn Muhammad al-Misisi is a trustworthy (thiqa) narrator, he became subject to confusion (ikhtilat) after coming to Baghdad shortly before his death. And Abu Ishaq al-Sabi'i is trustworthy (thiqa) but a mudallis (one who practices tadlis) and a narrator who became confused (mukhtalit), and this narration is with 'an'anah (i.e., he narrates with the word "from").)
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 2626