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[7545] 20 - (...) It was narrated that Sa‘eed bin Jubair said: “I said to Ibn ‘Abbâs, may Allâh be pleased with them: ‘Can one who killed a believer deliberately repent?’ He said: ‘No.’ I recited to him the Verse from Sûrat Al-Furqân: “And those who invoke not any other ilâh (god) along with Allâh, nor kill such person as Allâh has forbidden, except for just cause...”, to the end of the Verse, and he said: ‘That is a Makkân Verse, which was abrogated by the Verse revealed in Al-Madînah: “And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, to abide therein...”[1] In the narration of Ibn Hâshim: “So I recited to him these Verses from Al-Furqân: Except those who repent...”[2]
