hadith
275
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1. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Muhammed bin Yahya, from Muhammed bin Ahmad, from Ahmad bin Hilal, that he said
I asked Abu’l-Hasan, the Last, peace be upon him, about the sincere repentance: What is it? So he, peace be upon him, wrote: That the internal is like the apparent and (even) better than that.
أبي - رحمه الله - قال: حدثنا محمد بن يحيى، عن محمد بن أحمد، عن أحمد بن هلال قال
سألت أبا الحسن الأخير عليه السلام عن التوبة النصوح ما هي؟ فكتب عليه السلام: أن يكون الباطن كالظاهر وأفضل من ذلك.
Similar narrations
- Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār #277 the sincere repentance is that a man repents from a sin and intends to not return to it.