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Shia hadith/Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār 1

Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār 1, record 275 of the digital edition

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq · The meaning of the sincere repentance

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Arabic text

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.

Translation

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.

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  1. 1. My father, may

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