181 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Azdī narrated to us; Asad ibn ʿAmr al-Bajalī narrated to us, from Ashʿath, from Ibn Sīrīn, who said: He was asked about this verse, ⦗136⦘ “And those who, when they commit an indecency or wrong themselves, remember Allah and then seek forgiveness for their sins” (Q 3:135). Ibn Sīrīn replied, “Allah has granted us this verse in place of the expiations He had imposed on the Children of Israel for their sins.”