English translation
(25). 3039. Abū Bakr Aṣ-Ṣiddīq said: "I was with the Prophet ﷺ when this Āyah was revealed to him: Whoever works evil will have the recompense of it.[1] So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'O Abū Bakr! Shall I recite to you an Āyah revealed to me?' I said: 'Of course O Messenger of Allāh!' 'So he recited it to me, and I do not know except that I found it as a fatal blow, but I repressed it. So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'What is bothering you O Abū Bakr?' I said: 'O Messenger of Allāh! May my father and my mother be your ransom! Which of us has not done evil – and yet we shall be recompensed for what we have done?' So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'As for you O Abū Bakr, and the believers, they will be recompensed for that in the world until they meet Allāh and they have no sins. As for the others, then that will be collected for them until they are recompensed for it on the Day of Judgement.'" (Da'if) [Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Gharīb, there is criticism regarding its chain. Mūsā bin 'Ubaidah was graded weak in Hadīth; he was graded weak by Yahyā bin Sa'eed and Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal. The freed slave of Ibn Sibā' is unknown. This Hadīth has been reported through other routes from Abū Bakr, but its chain is also not Ṣaḥīḥ. There is something on this topic from 'Āishah.