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The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Amongst the people preceding you there used to be 'Muhaddithun' (i.e. persons
who can guess things that come true later on, as if those persons have been inspired by a divine
power), and if there are any such persons amongst my followers, it is `Umar bin Al-Khattab."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 60, Hadith 136
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That he heard Muawiya bin Abi Sufyan (talking) on the pulpit in the year when he performed the Hajj.
He took a tuft of hair that was in the hand of an orderly and said, "O people of Medina! Where are
your learned men? I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) forbidding such a thing as this (i.e. false hair) and he used to
say, 'The Israelis were destroyed when their ladies practiced this habit (of using false hair to lengthen
their locks).
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The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Amongst the men of Bani Israel there was a man who had murdered ninety-nine
persons. Then he set out asking (whether his repentance could be accepted or not). He came upon a
monk and asked him if his repentance could be accepted. The monk replied in the negative and so the
man killed him. He kept on asking till a man advised to go to such and such village. (So he left for it)
but death overtook him on the way. While dying, he turned his chest towards that village (where he
had hoped his repentance would be accepted), and so the angels of mercy and the angels of
punishment quarrelled amongst themselves regarding him. Allah ordered the village (towards which
he was going) to come closer to him, and ordered the village (whence he had come), to go far away,
and then He ordered the angels to measure the distances between his body and the two villages. So he
was found to be one span closer to the village (he was going to). So he was forgiven."