Hadith 246

Sahih Muslim

Book 1: The Book of Faith

Chapter 59

If a person thinks of doing a good deed it will be recorded for him, and if he thinks of doing a bad deed it will not be recorded for him

باب إِذَا هَمَّ الْعَبْدُ بِحَسَنَةٍ كُتِبَتْ وَإِذَا هَمَّ بِسَيِّئَةٍ لَمْ تُكْتَبْ ‏‏

Sahih Muslim 131b
وَحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنِ الْجَعْدِ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ، فِي هَذَا الإِسْنَادِ بِمَعْنَى حَدِيثِ عَبْدِ الْوَارِثِ ‏.‏ وَزَادَ ‏ ‏ ‏.‏
"‏ وَمَحَاهَا اللَّهُ وَلاَ يَهْلِكُ عَلَى اللَّهِ إِلاَّ هَالِكٌ ‏"
This hadith has been narrated with another chain of transmitters with the addition of these words:

Allah would even wipe out (the evil committed by a man) and Allah does not put to destruction anyone except he who is doomed to destruction.

Chain of Narrators

follower
1

al-J'd bin Dinar al-Yshkry

الجعد بن دينار اليشكري

12 narrations

successor
2

Ja'far bin Sulaiman al-Daba'i

جعفر بن سليمان الضبعي

59 narrations

3rd Generation
3

Yahya bin Yahya bin Bukayr

يحيى بن يحيى بن بكير

883 narrations