قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى قَتَلْتُ مِنْهُمْ نَفْسًۭا فَأَخَافُ أَن يَقْتُلُونِ
Qaala Rabbi innee qataltu minhum nafsan fa akhaafu ai yaqtuloon
He said, "My Lord, indeed, I killed from among them someone, and I fear they will kill me.
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Lessons from past peoples
28:33Ayah 188
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He said ‘My Lord I have indeed slain a soul among them — the mentioned Egyptian — and so I fear that they will slay me because of him.
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"Jundab said: 'So and so told me that the Messenger of Allah said: The slain will bring his killer on the Day of Resurrection and will say: Ask him why he killed me. He will say: I killed him defending the kingdom of so and so.'" Jundab said: "So be careful.'"
“I
fought a man and killed him, and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
awarded
me his spoils.”
I asked: Messenger of Allah! tell me if someone enters my house and extends his hands to kill me (what should I do?) The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) replied: Be like the two sons of Adam. The narrator Yazid (ibn Khalid) then recited the verse: "If thou dost stretch they hand against me to slay me."
" If I find them, I would kill them as the Thamud were killed."
I went to help that man (i.e., `Ali), and on the way I met Abu Bakra who asked me, "Where are you
going?" I replied, "I am going to help that man." He said, "Go back, for I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)
saying, 'If two Muslims meet each other with their swords then (both) the killer and the killed one are
in the (Hell) Fire.' I said, 'O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! It is alright for the killer, but what about the killed one?'
He said, 'The killed one was eager to kill his opponent."
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