Zirr bin Hubaysh reported,

I came to Safwan bin Assal al-Muradi, and he asked, "What has brought you here?"I replied, "The pursuit of knowledge."He said, "It has reached me that the angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge out of pleasure with what he does."Then he mentioned the hadith, and said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A person is with those whom he loves."He continued speaking with me until he told me that Allah has placed in the west a gate, the width of which is a journey of seventy years, opened for tawba. It will not be closed until the sun rises from its direction. That is the meaning of the saying of Allah , "On the Day when some of the signs of your Lord shall come, no soul shall benefit from its faith" [Anam 6:158].

حدثنا حسن بن موسى حدثنا حماد بن زيد عن عاصم بن بهدلة

عن زر بن حبيش قال

أتيت صفوان بن عسال المرادي فقال ما جاء بك فقلت ابتغاء العلم فقال لقد بلغني أن الملائكة لتضع أجنحتها لطالب العلم رضا بما يفعل فذكر الحديث فقال له رسول الله ﷺ المرء مع من أحب قال فما برح يحدثني حتى حدثني أن الله عز وجل جعل بالمغرب بابا مسيرة عرضه سبعون عاما للتوبة لا يغلق ما لم تطلع الشمس من قبله وذلك قول الله عز وجل {يوم يأتي بعض آيات ربك لا ينفع نفسا إيمانها}