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I heard Ka`b bin Malik at the time he remained behind and did not join (the battle of) Tabuk, saying,
"By Allah, no blessing has Allah bestowed upon me, besides my guidance to Islam, better than that of
helping me speak the truth to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) otherwise I would have told the Prophet (ﷺ) a lie and would
have been ruined like those who had told a lie when the Divine Inspiration was revealed:-- "They will
swear by Allah to you (Muslims) when you return to them.. the rebellious people." (9.95-96)
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 65, Hadith 195
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When `Abdullah bin Ubai died, his son `Abdullah bin `Abdullah came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) who gave
his shirt to him and ordered him to shroud his father in it. Then he stood up to offer the funeral prayer
for the deceased, but `Umar bin Al-Khattab took hold of his garment and said, "Do you offer the
funeral prayer for him though he was a hypocrite and Allah has forbidden you to ask forgiveness for
hypocrites?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah has given me the choice (or Allah has informed me) saying:
"Whether you, O Muhammad, ask forgiveness for them, or do not ask forgiveness for them, even if
you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah will not forgive them," (9.80) The he added, "I will
(appeal to Allah for his sake) more than seventy times." So Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) offered the funeral prayer
for him and we too, offered the prayer along with him. Then Allah revealed: "And never, O
Muhammad, pray (funeral prayer) for anyone of them that dies, nor stand at his grave. Certainly they
disbelieved in Allah and His Apostle and died in a state of rebellion." (9.84)
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Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Tonight two (visitors) came to me (in my dream) and took me to a town built
with gold bricks and silver bricks. There we met men who, half of their bodies, look like the mosthandsome
human beings you have ever seen, and the other half, the ugliest human beings you have
ever seen. Those two visitors said to those men, 'Go and dip yourselves in that river. So they dipped
themselves therein and then came to us, their ugliness having disappeared and they were in the mosthandsome
shape. The visitors said, 'The first is the Garden of Eden and that is your dwelling place.'
Then they added, 'As for those people who were half ugly and half handsome, they were those who
mixed good deeds and bad deeds, but Allah forgave them."