A man said: "By Allāh, Allāh will not forgive so-and-so." Then Allāh said: "Who is this who swears by Me that I will not forgive so-and-so? Indeed, I have forgiven so-and-so and nullified your deeds." It was narrated by Muslim (8/36) and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (1/84/1) through various chains from Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, from his father, from Abū ʿImrān, from Jundub who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. Then al-Ṭabarānī narrated it through the route of Ḥammād ibn Salamah, who informed us from Abū ʿImrān, from Jundub: that a man swore that Allāh would not forgive so-and-so, so Allāh revealed to His Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) or to a prophet that it is akin to a sin, so let him start anew in his deeds. I say: The chain of transmission is authentic and stopped, but it is considered elevated due to the evidence of what precedes it. (Note): Al-Suyūṭī narrated the ḥadīth from the narration of al-Ṭabarānī with the wording: A man said: "Allāh will not forgive so-and-so," so Allāh revealed to a prophet among the prophets that it is a sin, so let him start anew in his deeds. You see that it is a wording compiled from the wordings of al-Ṭabarānī, with slight modification in some words of the second wording among them. His saying: (yataʾallá), meaning: he swears. And (al-ʾalīyah) with the pattern of (ghaniyah): the oath. This ḥadīth has been previously extracted in a broader and stronger manner under number (1685). My daughter, Umm ʿAbd Allāh, may Allāh reward her well, alerted me to this, and I almost deleted it and printed another in its place. Then it occurred to me to leave it as it is because it contains two benefits not previously mentioned there: the first, the aforementioned alert. The second, the clarification that the narration of al-Ṭabarānī through the route of Ḥammād ibn Salamah is stopped, and this is something I failed to mention there, and Allāh is the source of success.