حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنِي الزُّبَيْدِيُّ قَالَ الزُّهْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ أَسْرَفَ عَبْدٌ عَلَی نَفْسِهِ بِنَحْوِ حَدِيثِ مَعْمَرٍ إِلَی قَوْلِهِ فَغَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ وَلَمْ يَذْکُرْ حَدِيثَ الْمَرْأَةِ فِي قِصَّةِ الْهِرَّةِ وَفِي حَدِيثِ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ قَالَ فَقَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لِکُلِّ شَيْئٍ أَخَذَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا أَدِّ مَا أَخَذْتَ مِنْهُ
صحیح مسلم · Hadith 6983
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying that a servant transgressed the litnit in committing sins. The rest of the hadith is the same but there is no mention of the story of the cat in it and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Ziibaidl (the words are): Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said to everything which had taken a part of lies ashes to return what it had taken.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020