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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:There was a person before you who had killed ninety-nine persons and then made an inquiry about the learned persons of the world (who could show him the way to salvation). He was directed to a monk. He came to him and told him that he had killed ninety-nine persons and asked him whether there was any scope for his repentance to be accepted. He said: No. He killed him also and thus completed one hundred. He then asked about the learned persons of the earth and he was directed to a scholar, and he told him that he had killed one hundred persons and asked him whether there was any scope for his repentance to be accepted. He said: Yes; what stands between you and the repentance? You better go to such and such land; there are people devoted to prayer and worship and you also worship along with them and do not come to the land of yours since it was an evil land (for you). So he went away and he had hardly covered half the distance when death came to him and there was a dispute between the angels of mercy and the angels of punishment. The angels of mercy said: This man has come as a penitant and remorseful to Allah and the angels of punishment said: He has done no good at all. Then there came another angel in the form of a human being in order to decide between them. He said: You measure the land to which he has drawn near. They measured it and found him nearer to the land where he intended to go (the land of piety), and so the angels of mercy took possession of it. Qatada said that Hasan told him that it was said to them that as death approached him, he crawled upon his chest (and managed) to slip in the land of mercy

حدثنا محمد بن المثنى، ومحمد بن بشار، - واللفظ لابن المثنى - قال حدثنا معاذ بن هشام، حدثني ابي، عن قتادة، عن ابي الصديق، عن ابي سعيد الخدري، ان نبي الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال " كان فيمن كان قبلكم رجل قتل تسعة وتسعين نفسا فسال عن اعلم اهل الارض فدل على راهب فاتاه فقال انه قتل تسعة وتسعين نفسا فهل له من توبة فقال لا . فقتله فكمل به ماية ثم سال عن اعلم اهل الارض فدل على رجل عالم فقال انه قتل ماية نفس فهل له من توبة فقال نعم ومن يحول بينه وبين التوبة انطلق الى ارض كذا وكذا فان بها اناسا يعبدون الله فاعبد الله معهم ولا ترجع الى ارضك فانها ارض سوء . فانطلق حتى اذا نصف الطريق اتاه الموت فاختصمت فيه ملايكة الرحمة وملايكة العذاب فقالت ملايكة الرحمة جاء تايبا مقبلا بقلبه الى الله . وقالت ملايكة العذاب انه لم يعمل خيرا قط . فاتاهم ملك في صورة ادمي فجعلوه بينهم فقال قيسوا ما بين الارضين فالى ايتهما كان ادنى فهو له . فقاسوه فوجدوه ادنى الى الارض التي اراد فقبضته ملايكة الرحمة " . قال قتادة فقال الحسن ذكر لنا انه لما اتاه الموت ناى بصدره