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"I used to guide my father after he lost his sight, and when I took him out for the Friday (prayer), when he heard the Adhan he would pray for forgiveness for Abu Umamah As'ad bin Zurarah, and supplicate for him. I heard that from him for a while, then I said to myself: 'By Allah! What is this weakness? Every time he heard the Adhan for Friday (prayer) I hear him praying for forgiveness for Abu Umamah and supplicate for him, and I do not ask him about why he does that.' Then I took him out for Friday (prayer), as I used to take him out, and when he heard the Adhan he prayed for forgiveness as he used to do. I said to him: 'O my father! I see you supplicating for As'ad bin Zurarah every time you hear the call for Friday; why is that?' He saud: 'O my son, he was the first one who led us for the Friday prayer before the Messenger of Allah (saw) came from Makkah, in Naqi' Al- Khadamat (a place near Al-Madinah), in the plain of Harrah Banu Bayadah.' I asked: 'How many of you were there at that time?' He said: 'Forty men.'" Sahih

"I heard Abu Mundhir, the freed slave of Abu Dharr, say that Abu Umayyah narrated to him, that a thief was brought to the Messenger of Allah (saw) and he admitted his crime, although the stolen goods were not found with him. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: 'I do not think you stole them.' He said: 'Yes I did.' Then he said (again): 'I do not think that you stole them.' and he said: 'Yes I did.' Then he ordered that his hand be cut off. The Prophet (saw) said: 'Say: I seek Allah's forgiveness and I repent to Him.' So he (the thief) said: 'I seek Allah's forgiveness and I repent to him.' He (the Prophet (saw) said twice: 'O Allah! Accept his repentance." Daif

"When Abdullah bin Ubayy died, his son came to The Prophet (saw) and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, give me your shirt so that I may shroud him in it.' The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: 'Notify me when he is ready (i.e., when he has been washed and shrouded).' When The Prophet (saw) wanted to offer the funeral prayer for him: 'You should not do that.' The Prophet (aw) offered the funeral prayer for him, and The Prophet (saw) said to him: 'I have been given two choices: "...ask forgiveness for them (hypocrites) or ask not forgiveness for them...'" [9:80] Then Allah revealed: 'And never pray (the funeral prayer) for any of them (hypocrites) who dies, nor stand at his grave.'" [9:84] Sahih

"A man come to the Prophet (saw) and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what supplication is best?' He said: 'Ask your Lord for forgiveness and to be kept safe and sound in this world and in the Hereafter.' Then (the man) came the next day and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what supplication is best?' He said: 'Ask your Lord for forgiveness and to be kept safe and sound in this world and in the Hereafter.' Then (the man) came the third day and said: 'O Prophet of Allah, what supplication is best?' He said: 'Ask your Lord for forgiveness and to be kept safe and sound in this world and in the Hereafter, for if you are forgiven and kept safe and sound in this world and the Hereafter, you will have succeeded.'"

"The Messenger of Allah (saw) never abandoned these supplications, every morning and evening: Allahumma inni as'alukal-'afwa wal-'afiyah fid-dunya wal-akhirah. Allahumma inni as'alukal-'afwa wal-'afiyah fi dini wa dunyaya wa ahli wa mali. Allahum-mastur 'awrati, wa amin raw'ati wahfazni min bayni yadayya, wa min khalfi, wa 'an yamini wa 'an shimali, wa min fawqi, wa 'audhu bika an ughtala min tahti (O Allah, I ask You for forgiveness and well-being in this world and in the Hereafter. O Allah, I ask You for forgiveness and well-being in my religious and my worldly affairs. O Allah, conceal my faults, calm my fears, and protect me from before me and behind me, from my right and my left, and from above me, and I seek refuge in You from being taken unaware from beneath me)." Waki' (one of the narrators, explaining) said: "Meaning Al-Khasf (disgrace)."

that the Messenger of Allah (saw) used to ask for forgiveness for the first row three times and for the second row twice. Daif

the Prophet (saw) said: "Glad tidings to those who find a lot of seeking forgiveness in the record of their deeds."

"I only know it from Anas bin Malik who said: 'No case involving retaliation was referred to the Messenger of Allah (saw) but he enjoined forgiveness."

"I was harsh in the way I spoke to my family, but not to others. I mentioned that to the Prophet (saw) and he said: 'Why don't you ask for forgiveness? Ask Allah to forgive you, seventy times each day.'"

"I heard the Messenger of Allah (saw) say: 'Everyone in the universe, in the heavens and on earth, prays for forgiveness for the scholar, even the fish in the sea." (Daif)