Abdullah bin Fayruz al-Daylami says: I entered upon Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them both) in one of his orchards in Ta'if called al-Waht. He was walking alongside a young man of Quraysh, holding his hand, and this young man was accused of drinking wine. I said to Abdullah bin Amr: "Some things have reached me from you which you narrate from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): that whoever drinks wine once, his repentance is not accepted for forty mornings" - (on hearing this) the young man snatched his hand from Abdullah's hand and turned his back and left - "and that the wretched one is he who was written wretched in his mother's womb, and that whoever leaves his house intending nothing but to pray in Bayt al-Maqdis will come out of his sins as on the day his mother gave birth to him." Abdullah bin Amr said (on hearing this): "O Allah! I do not make it lawful for anyone to attribute to me what I did not say. (The actual matter is that) I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'Whoever drinks a draught of wine, his repentance will not be accepted for forty mornings; then if he repents, Allah will forgive him. If he drinks again, his repentance will not be accepted for forty mornings - the narrator says: I do not remember whether it was the third or the fourth time that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: - if he still does not desist, then it is a right upon Allah that He will make him drink from radghat al-khabal (the pus and blood of the people of Hell) on the Day of Resurrection.'" He further said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'Indeed, Allah Almighty created His creation in darkness, then cast upon them of His light; so whoever was touched by some of that light on that day was guided, and whoever it missed went astray.' That is why I say: the Pen has dried (after writing destiny) in accordance with the knowledge of Allah. And I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'Sulayman bin Dawud (peace be upon them both) asked his Lord for three things. Allah granted him two, and we hope that He granted him the third as well. He asked Allah for a judgement (the ability to judge) that would accord with Allah's judgement, and Allah granted it to him. He asked for a kingdom that would not befit anyone after him, and Allah granted him that as well. And he supplicated that whoever leaves his house intending nothing but to pray in this mosque (Bayt al-Maqdis) would come out of his sins as on the day his mother gave birth to him; so we hope that Allah granted him this (third supplication) as well.'" Imam al-Awza'i says: Rabi'ah bin Yazid narrated this hadith to me between al-Miqsillat and al-Bab al-Saghir (places in Damascus). This is a sahih (authentic) hadith which the imams have narrated, and (the two Shaykhs) used all of these narrators as evidence, yet still did not record it, and I know of no hidden defect ('illah) in it.