Sahih Muslim Hadith 6958 – Exhortation To :)—(>i)

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[6958] 5 – (2745) It was narrated that Simãk said: "An- Nu'mân bin BashIr delivered a Khutbah and said: 'Verily, Allah 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. Allah rejoices more over the repentance of His slave than this man when he finds his camel as it had left him." Simâk said: "Ash-Sha'bI said that An-Nu'mân attributed this IjadIth to the Prophet i, but I did not hear that."