Is This Story And Hadith Authentic?
@Irfan76 sir also i guess there are a few things in this Hadith which make such a thing unreliable. – coming of voice to the man as if the woman was speaking – gathering of beasts and birds around (These supernatural phenomenon happening, Prophet did not tell these phenomenon but it was that person in the former and other people in the latter phenomenon) – the words of that are said to be of Prophet like ” o dissolute….” – then such harsh and tough repentance that was never heard before in Islamic perspective – then later when the verse of Quran 3-135 is mentioned then i guess in an explanatory way, these words are written ; it means adultery (or do injustice to their souls) by committing a sin greater than adultery like digging the graves and extorting the shrouds of the dead “remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their faults” fear Allah and hasten to repent “and who forgives the faults but Allah,” Allah says, “O Muhammad, my slave has come to you repenting but you rejected him. Where and to whom does he go? Whom does he ask to forgive his sins except Me?” Then Allah said, “and (who) do not knowingly persist in what they have done” do not keep on committing adultery, digging the graves and taking the shrouds of the buried dead: Here if you see the explanatory words that Allah says “O Muhammad, my slave has come to you repenting but….” . I mean where did these words come from and these words also a type of telling prophet that prophet shouldn’t have rejected him etc. – and saying that ayat was revealed after that man cried in mountains in repentance for 40 days. It gives a sort of idea that his sincerity and regret that first brought him to Prophet while crying, that sincerity was not enough and it become enough after 40 days of crying and begging for forgiveness. So these were some points which make it feel like maybe this report is fabricated. In the sunni website it also said that some scholars that talked about this hadith mentioned in tafsir of Ath-Thalabi, this hadith has discontinuity between Az-Zuhri and Umar. But I’m not sure if it’s the same hadith of same chain of narration that is said to be mentioned in Book of As-samarqandi. (As i mentioned that they found it in 2 sources : tafsir of Ath-Thalabi and book of as-samarqandi). And what if the hadith in book of as-samarqandi is of another chain of narration? Also sir, is there any concept in Islam that such harsh and tight repentance is needed for it to be sincere? (Like going into mountains for 40 days, and crying the lashes out)