al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3898
✧ Repentance and Seeking Forgiveness
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو هَمَّامٍ، ثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ، حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ أَبِي الْمُهَاجِرِ أَوْ أَبُو عَبْدِ رَبٍّ شَكَّ الْوَلِيدُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ:
« إِنَّ رَجُلًا فِيمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ لَقِيَ رَجُلًا عَالِمًا أَوْ عَابِدًا فَقَالَ: إِنَّ الْآخَرَ قَتَلَ تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ نَفْسًا كُلُّهَا يَقْتُلُهَا ظُلْمًا فَهَلْ تَجِدُ لِي مِنْ تَوْبَةٍ ؟ قَالَ: لَا، فَقَتَلَهُ، ثُمَّ لَقِيَ آخَرَ فَقَالَ: إِنَّ الْآخَرَ قَتَلَ مِائَةَ نَفْسٍ كُلُّهَا يَقْتُلُهَا ظُلْمًا، فَهَلْ تَجِدُ لِي مِنْ تَوْبَةٍ ؟ قَالَ: لَئِنْ قُلْتُ لَكَ: إِنَّ اللهَ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى لَا يَتُوبُ عَلَى مَنْ تَابَ لَقَدْ كَذَبْتُ، هَاهُنَا دَيْرٌ فِيهِ قَوْمٌ يَتَعَبَّدُونَ فَأْتِهِمْ فَاعْبُدِ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مَعَهُمْ، لَعَلَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى يَتُوبُ عَلَيْكَ، فَانْطَلَقَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَمَاتَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُمْ، فَاخْتَصَمَ مَلَائِكَةُ الْعَذَابِ وَمَلَائِكَةُ الرَّحْمَةِ، فَبَعَثَ اللهُ تَعَالَى مَلَكًا أَنْ قِيسُوا مَا بَيْنَ الْمَكَانَيْنِ، فَإِلَى أَيِّهِمَا كَانَ أَقْرَبَ فَهُوَ مِنْهُمْ، فَقَاسُوهُ فَوَجَدُوهُ أَقْرَبَ إِلَى دَيْرِ التَّوَّابِينَ بِأُنْمُلَةٍ، فَغَفَرَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Hammām
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd b. Jābir
- Ibn Abū al-Muhājir Aw Abū ʿAbd Rab Shak al-Walīd
- Muʿāwiyah b. Abū Sufyān
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ “A man among those before you met a learned man or a worshipper and said: ‘The other has killed ninety-nine people, all of them unjustly. Do you find any repentance for me?’ He said: ‘No,’ so he killed him. Then he met another and said: ‘The other has killed a hundred people, all of them unjustly. Do you find any repentance for me?’ He said: ‘If I told you that Allah, Blessed and Exalted, does not accept the repentance of one who repents, I would have lied. Here is a monastery in which there are people who worship. Go to them and worship Allah, Mighty and Majestic, along with them. Perhaps Allah, Exalted, will accept your repentance.’ So he set out toward them and died before reaching them. The angels of punishment and the angels of mercy disputed over him, so Allah, Exalted, sent an angel saying: ‘Measure between the two places; whichever he was closer to, he belongs to them.’ They measured and found him closer to the monastery of the penitents by a fingertip, so Allah, Mighty and Majestic, forgave him.”
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2766bSahih Muslim 2766cSahih Ibn Hibban 615Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28320al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15934Musnad Abi Ya'la 1033
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 60 AH, also said: 59 AHمُعَاوِيَة بْن أَبِي سُفْيَانصحابيسمعت
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. 112 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ رَبٍّمقبولحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 153 AH, or 154 AH, or 155 AH, or 156 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍثقةحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 243 AH, also said: 243 AH, also said: 239 AHأَبُو هَمَّامٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأبو يعلى الموصلي
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