حمران بن أبان التمري

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Humran ibn Aban al-Farisi, the jurist and client of the Commander of the Faithful 'Uthman; he was among the captives of 'Ayn al-Tamr and 'Uthman bought him from al-Musayyib ibn Najaba. He narrated from 'Uthman and Mu'awiya — his hadiths are few — and 'Ata' ibn Yazid al-Laythi, 'Urwa, Zayd ibn Aslam, Bayan ibn Bishr, Bukayr ibn al-Ashajj, Mu'adh ibn 'Abd al-Rahman and others narrated from him. He died in 89 AH. ¹

Divine forgiveness (maghfira)

Divine forgiveness in the forty-second hadith — the last of al-Nawawi's Forty — is the widest promise God made His servants: 'son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me and hope in Me, I forgive you whatever has issued from you, and I do not care; son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and then you sought My forgiveness, I would forgive you; son of Adam, were you to come to Me with an earthful of sins and then meet Me associating nothing with Me, I would come to you with an earthful of forgiveness' — from which Ibn Rajab drew three means by which it is won: supplication joined to hope, seeking forgiveness, and meeting God without association — so forgiveness answers sins however great, so long as they are free of shirk and met with hopeful supplication and sincere seeking of pardon (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam pp. 830–831).

حمران بن أبان التمري

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Divine forgiveness (maghfira)