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shame and regret. Some of the Salimah tribesmen followed him out of the Mosque
saying, "We have never known you to sin like this before!" Others said, "Why didn't you
make up an excuse as the others did and ask the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa sallam)
to supplicate for forgiveness for you?" They kept pestering and rebuking him so much
that at one point he was almost about to return and offer an excuse, but his conscience
prompted him not to.
Ka'b asked if there had been anyone else that had done likewise and offered no excuse.
His companions told him that there were two others, Murarah, and Hilal. Ka'b knew
these to be good Muslims and that they had been among those who fought at Badr, so
he knew he had done the right thing by telling the truth.
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Soon after, people who had known the three started to avoid them, so that they felt as if
they were strangers in a foreign land. Their guilt for disobeying the Messenger of Allah
(salla Allahu alihi wa sallam) was to lay heavily upon them, and continued to do so for
fifty days.
saying, "We have never known you to sin like this before!" Others said, "Why didn't you
make up an excuse as the others did and ask the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa sallam)
to supplicate for forgiveness for you?" They kept pestering and rebuking him so much
that at one point he was almost about to return and offer an excuse, but his conscience
prompted him not to.
Ka'b asked if there had been anyone else that had done likewise and offered no excuse.
His companions told him that there were two others, Murarah, and Hilal. Ka'b knew
these to be good Muslims and that they had been among those who fought at Badr, so
he knew he had done the right thing by telling the truth.
2
Soon after, people who had known the three started to avoid them, so that they felt as if
they were strangers in a foreign land. Their guilt for disobeying the Messenger of Allah
(salla Allahu alihi wa sallam) was to lay heavily upon them, and continued to do so for
fifty days.