Yūnus, from al-Ḥasan, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal:
A man once met a woman who had been a prostitute in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance. He began to amuse himself with her until he stretched out his hand toward her. She said, “Stop! Allah has removed polytheism and brought Islam.” He turned away, struck his face against a wall, and then went to the Prophet ﷺ and informed him. The Prophet said, “You are a servant for whom Allah intends good. When Allah intends good for a servant He hastens the punishment of his sin for him, and when Allah intends evil for a servant He withholds his sin until he meets Him with it on the Day of Resurrection, as though he were a beast of burden.” (1)
195 – Ibn Dust Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī *
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, peerless authority, and musnid, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad, son of the hadith scholar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Dust al-Baghdādī, the cloth-merchant (al-Bazzāz), the brother of ʿUthmān (2) ibn Dust al-ʿAllāf.
He narrated from al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAyyāsh (3) al-Qaṭṭān, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Maṭīrī (4), Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, and others of their rank.
(1) All the transmitters are trustworthy. Yunus is Yunus ibn Ubayd ibn Dinar al-Basri, a reliable and firmly established narrator. Ahmad recorded the hadith (4/87) through the route of Affan with this chain; al-Hakim declared it sound (4/376) and al-Dhahabi agreed. Al-Haythami cites it in Majmaʿ 10/191, adds that al-Tabarani also transmits it, and remarks: “The transmitters in Ahmad are those used in the Sahih, and the same holds for one of al-Tabarani’s two isnads.” The report is further supported by corroborating narrations: from Anas in al-Tirmidhi (2396); from ʿAmmar ibn Yasir in al-Tabarani, whose chain al-Haythami judges good (Majmaʿ 10/192); and from Ibn ʿAbbas in al-Tabarani, although that chain contains ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Arzami, who is weak.
(*) Works that mention him: Tarikh Baghdad 5/124-125; al-Muntazam 7/284; Mizan al-Iʿtidal 1/153-154; al-Mughni fi al-Duʿafa 1/58; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 3/1066; al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya 12/5; Lisan al-Mizan 1/297-298; al-Nujum al-Zahira 4/241.
(2) His detailed biography appears below, no. 309.
(3) The word is spelled with the letter ya and a dotted consonant, as in Tabsir al-Muntabih 3/901.
(4) The nisba “al-Mutayri” refers to al-Mutayra, a village in the vicinity of Samarra; see al-Lubab, s.v.