Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #29268

Abu Kurayb told us, Abu Muawiyah told us, on the authority of Burayd bin Abdullah, on the authority of Abu Burdah, on the authority of Abu Musa, that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said “Indeed, God, Blessed and Most High, dictates, and perhaps He said, ‘He gives respite to the oppressor, so that when he seizes him, he does not let him go.’” Then he read: (( Thus did your Lord seize when He took the towns.) The verse. Abu Issa said: This is a good, authentic, strange hadith, and Abu Usama narrated it on the authority of Buraid and something similar, and he said, “He will dictate.” Ibrahim bin Saeed Al-Jawhari told us, on the authority of Abu Usama, on the authority of Buraid bin Abdullah bin Abi Burdah, About his grandfather Abu Burdah, on the authority of Abu Musa, on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, something similar, and he said, “He would dictate and did not doubt it.”