The Book of Asceticism · Hadith 179 (#Ḥadīth #13)

حمد بن أبي عمير عن عبد الرحمن بن الحجاج عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: إن العبد ليذنب الذنب فيندم عليه ثم يعمل العمل فيسره ذلك فيتراخى عن حاله تلك ولان يكون على حاله تلك خير له مما دخل فيه.

13.Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUmayr narrated from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al- Ḥajjāj, from Abū ʿAbdillāh who said, “Verily the servant may commit a sin and then feel remorse for it, and later [he may] perform a deed by which he is pleased such that he becomes remiss and turns away from his previous state [of remorse and humility]. Indeed, it would have been better for him to remain in that previous state of his, rather than what he later entered into.”

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).