Asalaamu alaikum -
Recently I've heard (twice now) in khutbahs about a Companion who killed a man in battle right after the man proclaimed his shahadah. The hadith went something like this:
A Companion was about to slay a man in battle and the man quickly said the shahadah. The Companion killed the man anyway. When the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salaam learned about this, he asked the Companion why he did it. The Companion said "he only said the shahadah to keep from dying!" to which the Prophet replied, "Do you know this? Could you see inside his heart?" The Companion in despair said "I wish I had not entered Islam before this!"
Can someone more knowledgeable than I please supply me with this hadith and in doing so the name of that companion?
JazakAllah khair
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Recently I've heard (twice now) in khutbahs about a Companion who killed a man in battle right after the man proclaimed his shahadah. The hadith went something like this:
A Companion was about to slay a man in battle and the man quickly said the shahadah. The Companion killed the man anyway. When the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salaam learned about this, he asked the Companion why he did it. The Companion said "he only said the shahadah to keep from dying!" to which the Prophet replied, "Do you know this? Could you see inside his heart?" The Companion in despair said "I wish I had not entered Islam before this!"
Can someone more knowledgeable than I please supply me with this hadith and in doing so the name of that companion?
JazakAllah khair
D