a tree, awaiting death. When he awoke, there was his mount, with his food and drink upon it. Allah’s joy at His servant’s repentance is greater than this man’s joy at recovering his mount.” This hadith is widely transmitted from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, through several chains in the two Sahīh collections, including reports from Ibn Mas‘ūd, Abū Hurayrah, Anas, and others.

And his words:

“Allah laughs at two men, one of whom is the other’s companion; both enter Paradise.”

And in another hadith concerning someone who enters Paradise:

“He said: Then Allah laughs at him.”

And his words:

“There is not one of you whose Lord will not speak to him, with neither a doorkeeper nor an interpreter between them.”

And in the hadith:

“I have divided the prayer between Myself and