Mustadrak al-Hakim 7611

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Shaybānī Bi-al-Kūfah > Aḥmad b. Qāniʿ b. Abū ʿAzrah > ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá And ʾAbū Nuʿaym > ʿUbaydullāh b. Iyād b. Laqīṭ > Iyād > al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib

What is your opinion about the delight of a person whose camel loaded with the provisions of food and drink is lost and that moves about with its nosestring trailing upon the waterless desert in which there is neither food nor drink, and lie wanders about in search of that until he is completely exhausted and then accidentally it happens to pass by the trunk of a tree and its nosestring gets entangled in that and he finds it entangled therein? He (in response to the question of the Holy Prophet) said: Messenger of Allah, he would feel highly delighted. Thereupon Messenger of Allah ﷺ said. By Allah, Allah is more delighted at the repentance of His servant than that person (as he finds his lost) camel. – Sound Chain per Muslim

أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ بِالْكُوفَةِ ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ قَانِعِ بْنِ أَبِي عَزْرَةَ ثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى وَأَبُو نُعَيْمٍ قَالَا ثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِيَادِ بْنِ لَقِيطٍ ثَنَا إِيَادٌ عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «كَيْفَ تَقُولُونَ بِفَرَحِ رَجُلٍ انْفَلَتَ رَاحِلَتُهُ تَجُرُّ زِمَامَهَا بِأَرْضٍ قَفْرٍ لَيْسَ بِهَا طَعَامٌ وَلَا شَرَابٌ وَعَلَيْهَا لَهُ طَعَامٌ وَشَرَابٌ فَطَلَبَهَا حَتَّى شَقَّ عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ مَرَّتْ بِحَوْلِ شَجَرَةٍ فَتَعَلَّقَ زِمَامُهَا فَوَجَدَهَا مُعَلَّقَةً بِهِ؟» قُلْنَا شَدِيدٌ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ «أَمَا وَاللَّهِ اللَّهُ أَشَدُّ فَرَحًا بِتَوْبَةِ عَبْدِهِ مِنَ الرَّجُلِ بِرَاحِلَتِهِ» على شرط مسلم – على شرط مسلم