‘My mercy precedes My anger’

عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيّ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّم قَالَ

إِنَّ اللهَ لَمَّا قَضَى الْخَلْقَ كَتَبَ عِنْدَهُ فَوْقَ عَرْشِهِ إِنَّ رَحْمَتِي سَبَقَتْ غَضَبِي‏‏

Hazrat Abu Hurairah^ra narrated, “The Prophet^sa said, ‘When Allah had finished His creation, He wrote with Him over His Throne: ‘My mercy precedes My anger.’”

(Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab at-tawhid, Bab ‘wa kana ‘arshuhu ‘ala l-ma’i, wa huwa rabbu l-‘arshi l-azim’)