Hawzah News Agency – The merciful prophet of Islam (pbuh) says:

إذا تَوَضّأَ العَبدُ تَحاطُّ عَنهُ ذُنوبُهُ كما تَحاطُّ وَرَقُ هذهِ الشَّجَرَةِ.

'When the servant performs the ablution, his sins shed away from him just as leaves shed from a tree.'

Source: Kanz al-Ummal, no. 26030