Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #26564

Qutaibah told us, Abu Awanah told us, on the authority of Uthman bin Al-Mughirah, on the authority of Ali bin Rabi’ah, on the authority of Asma bin Al-Hakam Al-Fazari, he said I heard Ali say, “I was a man who, when I heard a hadith from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, God benefited me from it as He wished it would benefit me.” With it, if a man from among his companions narrated to me, I made him swear to him, and if he swore to me, I believed him, and that Abu Bakr narrated to me, and Abu Bakr spoke the truth, saying I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, say, “There is no man who commits a sin, then gets up and purifies himself, then prays, then asks God for forgiveness, but he will forgive.” God is His. Then he recited this verse: (And those who, when they commit an indecency or wrong themselves, remember God and seek forgiveness. for their sins, and who can forgive sins except Allah? And they did not persist in what they did while they knew.) He said, and in the chapter on the authority of Ibn Masoud and Abi Al-Darda', Anas, Abu Umamah, Mu'adh, Wathilah, and Abu Al-Yusr, whose name is Ka'b ibn Amr. Abu Issa said the hadith of Ali is a good hadith, no. We know him only from this point of view, from the hadith of Uthman ibn al-Mughirah. Shu’bah and more than one person narrated from him, so they attributed it to the same hadith as the hadith of Ubayy. Awanah. It was narrated by Sufyan Al-Thawri and Mas’ar, but they rejected it and did not refer it to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. This hadith was narrated with a chain of transmission traceable to Mas’ar. Also, we do not know of a marfoo’ hadith from Asmaa ibn al-Hakam except this.