💎[The Excellent Character of the Prophets]

✒️ Ibn Baṭṭāl -رحمه الله- said:

إِنَّ لِقَاءَ النَّاسِ بِالتَّبَسُّمِ، وَطَلَاقَةَ الْوَجْهِ، مِنْ أَخْلَاقِ النُّبُوَّةِ، وَهُوَ مُنَافٍ لِلتَّكَبُّرِ، وَجَالِبٌ لِلْمَوَدَّةِ.

“Meeting people with a smile and a cheerful face is part of the character of Prophethood. It contradicts arrogance and brings about affection.”

📚 Ibn Baṭṭāl. Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. Vol. 5, p. 193.

💎[Adam said: If I repent and set things right, will You return me to Paradise?]

⭐️It has been authentically reported, as a mawqūf narration with the ruling of being marfūʿ (attributable in meaning to the Prophet), from Ibn ʿAbbās - رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا - regarding the saying of Allah, the Exalted:

﴿ فَتَلَقَّى آدَمُ مِنْ رَبِّهِ كَلِمَاتٍ فَتَابَ عَلَيْهِ ﴾ [البقرة: ٣٧]

{Then Ādam received from his Lord words, and He accepted his repentance} [Sūrat al-Baqarah 2:37]:

«قَالَ آدَمُ: أَي رَبِّ، أَلَمْ تَخْلُقْنِي بِيَدِكَ؟ قَالَ: بَلَى،

“Ādam said: O my Lord, did You not create me with Your own Hand? He said: Yes, indeed.

قَالَ: أَي رَبِّ، أَلَمْ تَنْفُخْ فِيَّ مِنْ رُوحِكَ؟ قَالَ: بَلَى،

He said: O my Lord, did You not blow into me from Your Spirit? He said: Yes, indeed.

قَالَ: أَي رَبِّ، أَلَمْ تُسْكِنِّي جَنَّتَكَ؟ قَالَ: بَلَى،

He said: O my Lord, did You not settle me in Your Paradise? He said: Yes, indeed.

قَالَ: أَي رَبِّ، أَلَمْ تَسْبِقْ رَحْمَتُكَ غَضَبَكَ؟ قَالَ: بَلَى،

He said: O my Lord, did Your mercy not precede Your anger? He said: Yes, indeed.

قَالَ: أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ تُبْتُ وَأَصْلَحْتُ، أَرَاجِعِي أَنْتَ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ؟قَالَ: بَلَى،

He said: So, if I repent and set things right, will You return me to Paradise? He said: Yes, indeed.

قَالَ: فَهُوَ قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى: ﴿ فَتَلَقَّى آدَمُ مِنْ رَبِّهِ كَلِمَاتٍ فَتَابَ عَلَيْهِ ﴾ [البقرة: ٣٧]».

He [Ibn ʿAbbās] said: So that is His saying: {Then Ādam received from his Lord words, and He accepted his repentance} [al-Baqarah 2:37].”

📚 This was narrated by al-Firyābī, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in al-Tawbah, Ibn Jarīr, Ibn al-Mundhir, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Ḥākim (who declared it authentic), and Ibn Mardawayh. Authenticated by al-Albānī in his book al-Tawassul (p. 90).