It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Quraysh said: O Muhammad, pray to your Lord to turn al-Safa into gold, and we will believe you. the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Will you do so?" They said: Yes. Then Jibril (peace be upon him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "Take a firm pledge from them." Then Jibril (peace be upon him) said: "O Muhammad, Allah has granted you what you asked. If you wish, al-Safa will become gold for you, but whoever disbelieves after that, I will punish him with a punishment with which I have not punished anyone in all the worlds; and if you wish, I will open for them the gate of repentance and turning back." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The gate of repentance and mercy is dearer to me." This error (the change of name) does not weaken the hadith of al-Thawri, because I do not know anyone named Imran bin al-Ja'd among the Tabi'in; rather, Isma'il bin Abi Khalid narrated from Imran bin Abi al-Ja'd, while Imran bin al-Ja'd is from the generation after the Tabi'in (Atba' al-Tabi'in).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever does an evil deed and feels it to be bad while doing it, and does a good deed and is pleased by it, is a believer." This hadith is sahih on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it with this wording. I have already mentioned, in the sermon of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) at al-Jabiyah, that the two of them did not record it, and this (narration) is also in a different wording from that one.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Abu Dharr, fear Allah wherever you are, follow an evil deed with a good deed and it will wipe it out, and treat people with good character." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) intended to set out on a journey, so he said: O Messenger of Allah, give me counsel. He ((peace and blessings be upon him)) said: "Worship Allah and do not associate anything with Him." He said: O Messenger of Allah, (tell me) more. He ((peace and blessings be upon him)) said: "When you do something bad, then do good (after it)." He said: O Messenger of Allah, tell me more. He ((peace and blessings be upon him)) said: "Be steadfast, and make your character good." This hadith is hasan sahih in its chain through the narration of the Egyptians, but the two of them (Imam Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said concerning the saying of Allah Almighty: "Those who avoid the major sins and immoralities" [Surah al-Najm: 32] : It refers to the person who commits an immoral act and then repents from it. The narrator said: the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Allah, if You forgive, then forgive (sins) altogether; and which servant of Yours is there who has not slipped (into a minor sin)?" This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it; they recorded only the narration of Abdullah bin Tawus from his father from Ibn Abbas, in which he said: I have not seen anything closer to lamam (minor sins) than the saying of Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah: "The son of Adam has had his share of zina written for him", to the end of the hadith. In my view, the two of them left out this hadith of Amr bin Dinar because of the following hadith.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said concerning this verse, "except for minor sins (al-lamam)" [Surah al-Najm: 32] : It refers to the person who falls into a sin and then abandons it. Have you not heard the saying of the poet: "O Allah, if You forgive, then forgive abundantly; and which servant of Yours is there who has not committed a lapse (lamam)?" This mawquf narration does not weaken the chain of the first (marfu') narration, because Zakariyya bin Ishaq is a trustworthy hafiz, and Rawh bin Ubadah also narrated this hadith from him. I have already mentioned, among the conditions of this book, the recording of Qur'anic interpretations reported from the Companions.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "All of my Ummah will enter Paradise except the one who refuses." The Companions said: O Messenger of Allah, who would refuse? He ((peace and blessings be upon him)) said: "Whoever disobeys me has refused (to enter Paradise)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it! It has another chain from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah on their condition:

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You will most certainly enter Paradise, except the one who refuses and runs away from Allah the way a camel runs away (from its owner)."

It is narrated from Ali bin Khalid that Sayyiduna Abu Umamah al-Bahili (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by Khalid bin Yazid bin Mu'awiyah, and he asked him: What is the gentlest word you heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)? He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "All of you will enter Paradise, except the one who bolts away from Allah the way a camel bolts away from its owners."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed Allah has one hundred mercies. Of these, He distributed one mercy among the people of this world, which suffices them until their death, and He has kept back ninety-nine mercies for His awliya' (beloved servants). And Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will join that one mercy which He distributed among the people of this world to those ninety-nine (on the Day of Resurrection), and thus complete one hundred mercies for His awliya' on the Day of Resurrection." This hadith is sahih on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it with this wording. They only agreed upon the abridged narrations of al-Zuhri from Humayd bin Abd al-Rahman and of Sulayman al-Taymi from Abu Uthman, while Imam Muslim recorded, through Abd al-Malik bin Abi Sulayman, a narration more complete than those two. There is also a supporting narration along the lines of this hadith of Awf: