as He said: “My servants, you can never cause Me harm, nor can you ever benefit Me.” If a king commands his servants to do something, he commands them because he needs them; and they do it through a power that he did not create for them, so they demand recompense for it. But Allah Most High is free of all need of the worlds: if they do good, they do good for their own benefit; and if they do evil, it is against themselves. They shall receive the reward of what they earn and bear the burden of what they commit. “Whoever does righteousness, it is for his own soul; and whoever does evil, it is against it. And your Lord is never unjust to His servants.”
End of the words of Shaykh al-Islam, may Allah have mercy on him, quoted from Majmu' al-Fatawa (8/70–71). Similar statements are found in Miftah Dar al-Sa'adah (pp. 9–10), by his learned scholar-disciple Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, and in Tajrid al-Tawhid al-Mufid (pp. 36–43), by al-Maqrizi.
2603 — “O Allah, forgive me and accept my repentance; indeed, You are the Accepter of repentance, the All-Forgiving [one hundred times].”
It was recorded by Ibn Abi Shaybah in al-Musnad (2/71/1): Ibn Fudayl and Ibn Idris narrated from Husayn, from Hilal ibn Yisaf, from Zadhan, who said: A man from the Ansar informed us that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say at the conclusion of the prayer—then he mentioned the supplication. However, he said: “You are the One who turns in mercy, or the Accepter of repentance,” expressing doubt in this wording. The correct wording is probably that which I have established above, for Shu'bah corroborated him from Husayn with the same report, without any doubt, and added: “one hundred times.” However, he said: “during a prayer,” instead of “at the conclusion of the prayer.” Ahmad recorded it (5/371): Muhammad ibn Ja'far narrated to us; Shu'bah narrated to us with the same chain.
I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy; apart from Hilal ibn Yisaf and Zadhan—al-Kindi, a client of Kindah from Kufa—who are among the narrators used by Muslim, they meet the criteria of both al-Bukhari and Muslim.