- "If you did not have sins for which Allāh could forgive you, Allāh would bring a people who have sins that He could forgive for them." It was recorded by Muslim (8/94) through the route of Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Qurāẓī from Abū Ṣirmah from Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. And there is another route for it with him from Abū Ṣirmah with the wording: "If you did not sin." It will be mentioned, Allāh willing, under number (1963). And it has a corroborating narration from the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah with the wording: "If you did not err, Allāh would bring a people who err, and He would forgive them."

- "If you did not err, Allāh would bring a people who err, and He would forgive them." It was recorded by al-Ḥākim (4/246) from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith that Darāj narrated it to him from Ibn Ḥujayr from Abū Hurayrah as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. And he said: "Its isnād is authentic." And al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I say: Darāj is spoken about, and in "Taqrīb" it says: "Truthful, but his ḥadīth from Abū al-Haytham is weak." I say: It is ḥasan, Allāh willing, due to its previous and forthcoming corroborations, especially since it has another route from Abū Hurayrah with the wording: "If you were - or he said: If you were always - in the state that you are in when you are with me, the angels would shake hands with you with their palms and visit you in your homes, and if you did not sin, Allāh would bring a people who sin so that He could forgive them." It was recorded by Ibn al-Mubārak in "al-Zuhd" (1075) and also by al-Ṭayālisī (p. 337, no