al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4159

Translation

✧ A man killed ninety-nine people. Then he wanted to repent, so he went to a monk in a barren land and said, "O monk, I have killed ninety-nine people. Is there any repentance for me?" He said, "No." He said, "No doubt, by Allah, I will complete them to a hundred with you." Then he went to another monk and said, "I have killed ninety-nine people and completed them to a hundred with a monk. Is there any repentance for me?" He said, "You have gone to excess against yourself and committed a grave sin, but whoever repents, Allah turns to him." He said, "So he threw away the sword and said, 'By Allah, I will serve you until death separates us.'" He said, "He made a covenant with him not to disobey him." He said, "Then some people came who were travelers or afflicted with drought, and he used to practice medicine. The man said, 'Do you command me to do anything?' He said, 'Go and stoke the oven.' He said, 'So he went and stoked it until it became hot.' He said, 'It has become hot, so what do you command me?' He said, 'Go and fall into it.' He said, 'So he went and fell into it.' Then the monk remembered and stood up, and those with him stood up, and there he was in the oven, sweating, and the fire did not harm him. The monk said, 'I have come to know that your repentance has been accepted, so I will serve you forever until you depart from me.' Ibn Mas'ud ؓ said, 'Among the Children of Israel, when one of them committed a sin, he would wake up with the expiation for his sin written on the threshold of his door. Allah the Exalted has favored you over them, for you have been commanded to seek forgiveness, and you seek forgiveness from Allah the Exalted.' He said, 'And He has given this nation a verse which I would not love to have in exchange for the world and all that is in it: And those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves, remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins...'"

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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

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   Shaqīq b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AH
   أَبِي وَائِلٍ شَقِيقِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AH
   عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥammād b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   al-Naḍr b. Shumayl

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 203 AH, or: 204 AH, also said: 202 AH
   النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍثقة ثبت
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm

   trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH
   إسحاق ابن راهويهثقة حافظ مجتهد

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.