فَأَنَّهُ ، غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
((then surely, He is Oft-Forgiving Most
Merciful.))
Imām Aḥmad recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said,
لَمَّا
قَضَى اللهُ الْخَلْقَ كَتَبَ فِي كِتَابٍ فَهُوَ عِنْدَهُ فَوْقَ الْعَرْشِ :
إِنَّ رَحْمَتِي غَلَبَتْ غَضَبِي
“When Allāh finished with the creation, He wrote in a Book that He has with Him above the Throne, ‘My mercy prevails over My anger’. [1]
This
Ḥadīth was also recorded in the The Two Ṣaḥīḥs.[2]
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[1] Aḥmad 2:313.
[2] Fatḥ Al-Bāri 13: 395, Muslim
4: 2107.
SOURCE: Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr
(Abridged) Volume 3, p.358, Dar-us-Salam
Abridged by A Group of Scholars
under the supervision of Shaykh Safiur-Rahman Al-Mubarakpuri
