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Sahih al-Bukhari 4674 (Book 65, Hadith 196) #4457
Forgiveness Through Good Deeds

SUMMARY: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was taken to a town in his dream, where he saw people who were half handsome and half ugly. The visitors told them to dip themselves in the river, and when they did so, their ugliness disappeared and they became the most handsome. This is because those people had mixed good deeds with bad deeds but Allah forgave them.

Narrated Samura bin Jundab: Allah's Messenger ﷺ said, "Tonight two (visitors) came to me (in my dream) and took me to a town built with gold bricks and silver bricks. There we met men who, half of their bodies, look like the most handsome human beings you have ever seen, and the other half, the ugliest human beings you have ever seen. Those two visitors said to those men, 'Go and dip yourselves in that river. So they dipped themselves therein and then came to us, their ugliness having disappeared and they were in the most handsome shape. The visitors said, 'The first is the Garden of Eden and that is your dwelling place'. Then they added, 'As for those people who were half ugly and half handsome, they were those who mixed good deeds and bad deeds, but Allah forgave them".
حَدَّثَنَا مُؤَمَّلٌ ـ هُوَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ ـ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، وَحَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو رَجَاءٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سَمُرَةُ بْنُ جُنْدُبٍ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَنَا ‏ "‏ أَتَانِي اللَّيْلَةَ آتِيَانِ فَابْتَعَثَانِي، فَانْتَهَيْنَا إِلَى مَدِينَةٍ مَبْنِيَّةٍ بِلَبِنِ ذَهَبٍ وَلَبِنِ فِضَّةٍ، فَتَلَقَّانَا رِجَالٌ شَطْرٌ مِنْ خَلْقِهِمْ كَأَحْسَنِ مَا أَنْتَ رَاءٍ، وَشَطْرٌ كَأَقْبَحِ مَا أَنْتَ رَاءٍ قَالاَ لَهُمُ اذْهَبُوا فَقَعُوا فِي ذَلِكَ النَّهْرِ‏.‏ فَوَقَعُوا فِيهِ ثُمَّ رَجَعُوا إِلَيْنَا قَدْ ذَهَبَ ذَلِكَ السُّوءُ عَنْهُمْ، فَصَارُوا فِي أَحْسَنِ صُورَةٍ قَالاَ لِي هَذِهِ جَنَّةُ عَدْنٍ، وَهَذَاكَ مَنْزِلُكَ قَالاَ أَمَّا الْقَوْمُ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا شَطْرٌ مِنْهُمْ حَسَنٌ وَشَطْرٌ مِنْهُمْ قَبِيحٌ فَإِنَّهُمْ خَلَطُوا عَمَلاً صَالِحًا وَآخَرَ سَيِّئًا تَجَاوَزَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ
TOPICS
forgiveness  *  deeds  *  river  *  ugliness  *  handsome

QUICK LESSONS:
Do more good than evil so you can be forgiven by God even if you have made mistakes before .

EXPLANATIONS:
In this hadith narrated by Samura bin Jundab, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was taken to a town in his dream which was built with gold bricks and silver bricks. There he saw men who were half handsome and half ugly. The two visitors then told these men to dip themselves into the river, after which their ugliness disappeared and they became the most handsome of all people. This is because these people had mixed good deeds with bad deeds but Allah forgave them due to their good deeds outweighing their bad ones. This teaches us that no matter how many mistakes we make or how much wrong we do, if our good deeds are more than our bad ones then there is still hope for us as Allah will forgive us for our sins if we repent sincerely from our hearts.

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