Four Benefits are mentioned from the aforementioned ḥadīth with a variety of knowledge-filled explanations of the salaf: 1. Feeling remorseful for one’s sins 2. Asking the people of knowledge when seeking guidance towards repentance 3. Allāh forgives the greatest of sins with sincere repentance 4. The encouragement of the repenting one to flee from the places he used to fall into sin, and from those who used to encourage him upon it
Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah said: “Whoever’s sin is from desire (craving), have hope for his repentance, for indeed Ādam disobeyed Allāh from desire (craving) and was forgiven, and whoever’s sin is from arrogance, then fear for his damnation, for indeed Iblīs (Satan) disobeyed Allāh from haughtiness and was cursed.”
