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2496. Ibn 'Umar said: "I heard the Prophet ﷺ narrating a Hadīth, not just once or twice, even seven times, but I heard him saying it more than that. I heard him saying: 'There was a man called Al-Kifl among the children of Isrā'īl who did not restrain himself from sin. A woman came to him and he gave her sixty Dīnār so he could sleep with her. When he sat up from her,
as a man sits up from a woman, she began to tremble and cry, so he said: "Why are you crying, did I do something to harm you?" She said: "No. But it is because of what I did, I only did so out of need." He said: "You did this without having done (it before), so leave me, and it (the money) is for you." And then he said: "By Allāh! I will never disobey Allāh after that." He died during the night and morning came with: "Indeed Allāh has forgiven Al-Kifl" written upon his door." (Da'if)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Ĥadīth is Hasan. Shāibān and more than one other narrator reported it [similar to this] from Al-A'mash in Marfū' form. Some of them reported it in Mawqūf not Marfū' form, from Al-A'mash. Abū Bakr bin 'Ayyāsh reported this Ĥadīth from Al-A'mash and made a mistake in it. He said: "From 'Abdullāh bin 'Abdullāh, from Sa'eed bin Jubair from Ibn 'Umar" and it is not preserved. 'Abdullāh bin 'Abdullāh Ar-Rāzī is from Al-Kūfah, and his grandmother was a concubine of 'Alī bin Abī Tālib.
'Ubaid Ad-Dabbī, Al-Hajjāj bin Arṭāh and more than one [among the major people of knowledge] reported from 'Abdullāh bin 'Abdullāh Ar-Rāzī.
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Man's prosperity or otherwise in the Hereafter is determined by the manner of his end. Kifl died doing a virtuous deed. Spurred by the words of a
remorsful woman, he turned to Allāh with sincere repentance before his death. Temptation for fornication is surely a most trying circumstance which no one could resist or repel without Allāh's special guidance and mercy.
