Reading the statement of Imam al-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) regarding what he transmitted: "

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The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The author (may Allah have mercy on him) quoted: "From Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say:

All the sins of my followers will be forgiven except those of the Mujahirin (those who commit a sin openly or disclose their sins to the people). An example of such disclosure is that a person commits a sin at night and though Allah screens it from the public, then he comes in the morning, and says, 'O so-and-so, I did such-and-such (evil) deed yesterday,' though he spent his night screened by his Lord (none knowing about his sin) and in the morning he removes Allah's screen from himself.

كلُّ أمتي معافى إلا المجاهرين ، وإن من المجاهرة أن يعمل الرجل بالليل عملاً، ثم يصبح وقد ستره الله عليه ، فيقول : يا فلان عملتُ البارحة كذا كذا ، وقد بات يستره ربه ويصبح يكشف ستر الله

Sahih al-Bukhari 6069

, agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim".

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