Continuation: Should we narrate to the common people a hadith like that of Abu Dharr?
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The Shaykh : Then he asked a worshipper if he had any repentance. The worshipper said: You have no repentance. He considered ninety-nine souls, so he killed the worshipper and completed the hundred. Then he asked a scholar, saying: Does he have any repentance? He said: Yes, and who can stand between you and repentance? But you are in a land whose people are oppressive. Go out to such-and-such a village, meaning to make your repentance valid. So he went out, and it turned out that death came to him on the way. The angels of mercy and the angels of punishment disputed over him, and Allah the Exalted sent down an angel to judge between them. The one who argued was the angels of mercy, so the angels of mercy took his soul.
This hadith also should not be narrated to people. I have heard a person narrating it to people during the Hajj season this year. We said: How easy it is for a pilgrim, if he sees an enemy of his, even if he has no right to do so, to kill him and say, "I repent," as long as the one who killed a hundred souls was granted repentance, and he was from the Children of Israel, and they were strictly held to account. The conclusion is that a person should consider the circumstances; if he fears that his narration will lead to fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and there is no dire necessity to narrate it, then he should avoid it.
This hadith also should not be narrated to people. I have heard a person narrating it to people during the Hajj season this year. We said: How easy it is for a pilgrim, if he sees an enemy of his, even if he has no right to do so, to kill him and say, "I repent," as long as the one who killed a hundred souls was granted repentance, and he was from the Children of Israel, and they were strictly held to account. The conclusion is that a person should consider the circumstances; if he fears that his narration will lead to fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and there is no dire necessity to narrate it, then he should avoid it.