Sahih Muslim 2766a
The Acceptance Of The Repentance Of The One Who Kills, Even If He Has Killed A Great Deal
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لاِبْنِ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الصِّدِّيقِ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ أَنَّ نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
«كَانَ فِيمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ رَجُلٌ قَتَلَ تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ نَفْسًا۔ فَسَأَلَ عَنْ أَعْلَمِ أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ، فَدُلَّ عَلَى رَاهِبٍ۔ فَأَتَاهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ قَتَلَ تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ نَفْسًا فَهَلْ لَهُ مِنَ تَوْبَةٍ۔ فَقَالَ لاَ، فَقَتَلَهُ فَكَمَّلَ بِهِ مِائَةً۔ ثُمَّ سَأَلَ عَنْ أَعْلَمِ أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ، فَدُلَّ عَلَى رَجُلٍ عَالِمٍ۔ فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ قَتَلَ مِائَةَ نَفْسٍ فَهَلْ لَهُ مِنْ تَوْبَةٍ۔ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ وَمَنْ يَحُولُ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ التَّوْبَةِ؟ انْطَلِقْ إِلَى أَرْضِ كَذَا وَكَذَا فَإِنَّ بِهَا أُنَاسًا يَعْبُدُونَ اللَّهَ، فَاعْبُدِ اللَّهَ مَعَهُمْ وَلاَ تَرْجِعْ إِلَى أَرْضِكَ فَإِنَّهَا أَرْضُ سَوْءٍ»، «فَانْطَلَقَ حَتَّى إِذَا نَصَفَ الطَّرِيقَ أَتَاهُ الْمَوْتُ، فَاخْتَصَمَتْ فِيهِ مَلاَئِكَةُ الرَّحْمَةِ وَمَلاَئِكَةُ الْعَذَابِ۔ فَقَالَتْ مَلاَئِكَةُ الرَّحْمَةِ: جَاءَ تَائِبًا مُقْبِلاً بِقَلْبِهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ۔ وَقَالَتْ مَلاَئِكَةُ الْعَذَابِ: إِنَّهُ لَمْ يَعْمَلْ خَيْرًا قَطُّ۔ فَأَتَاهُمْ مَلَكٌ فِي صُورَةِ آدَمِيٍّ فَجَعَلُوهُ بَيْنَهُمْ۔ فَقَالَ: قِيسُوا مَا بَيْنَ الأَرْضَيْنِ فَإِلَى أَيَّتِهِمَا كَانَ أَدْنَى فَهُوَ لَهُ۔ فَقَاسُوهُ فَوَجَدُوهُ أَدْنَى إِلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي أَرَادَ، فَقَبَضَتْهُ مَلاَئِكَةُ الرَّحْمَةِ».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná and Muḥammad b. Bashhār Wa-al-Lafẓ Lāib. al-Muthanná
- Muʿādh b. Hishām
- my father
- Qatādah
- Abū al-Ṣiddīq
- Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
- Nabī Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet of Allah ﷺ said: “Among those who came before you there was a man who killed ninety-nine people. He asked about the most knowledgeable person on earth, and he was directed to a monk. He went to him and said that he had killed ninety-nine people—was there any repentance for him? He said, ‘No,’ so he killed him, thereby completing one hundred. Then he asked about the most knowledgeable person on earth, and he was directed to a learned man. He said that he had killed one hundred people—was there any repentance for him? He said, ‘Yes—and who could stand between him and repentance? Go to such-and-such a land, for there are people there who worship Allah; worship Allah with them, and do not return to your land, for it is an evil land.’" “So he set out, and when he had reached halfway along the road, death came to him. The angels of mercy and the angels of punishment disputed concerning him. The angels of mercy said, ‘He came repentant, turning with his heart toward Allah.’ The angels of punishment said, ‘He has never done any good at all.’ Then an angel came to them in the form of a human being, and they made him judge between them. He said, ‘Measure the distance between the two lands; whichever of them he is closer to, he belongs to it.’ So they measured, and found him closer to the land he had intended, and the angels of mercy took him.”
Notes
Qatādah said, and al-Ḥasan said: It was mentioned to us that when death came to him, he drew back his chest.
قَالَ قَتَادَةُ فَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ ذُكِرَ لَنَا أَنَّهُ لَمَّا أَتَاهُ الْمَوْتُ نَأَى بِصَدْرِهِ
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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
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 108 AHأَبِي الصِّدِّيقِثقةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt), though he was accused of belief in free will (qadar)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 153 AH, or 154 AHأَبِيثقة ثبت ، وقد رمي بالقدرحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 200 AHمُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍصدوق ربما وهمحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHوَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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