عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضي الله عنه، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «مَنْ كَانَتْ لَهُ مَظْلِمَةٌ لِأَخِيهِ مِنْ عِرْضِهِ أَوْ شَيْءٍ، فَلْيَتَحَلَّلْهُ مِنْهُ اليَوْمَ، قَبْلَ أَنْ لاَ يَكُونَ دِينَارٌ وَلاَ دِرْهَمٌ، إِنْ كَانَ لَهُ عَمَلٌ صَالِحٌ، أُخِذَ مِنْهُ بِقَدْرِ مَظْلِمَتِهِ، وَإِنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ لَهُ حَسَنَاتٌ، أُخِذَ مِنْ سَيِّئَاتِ صَاحِبِهِ، فَحُمِلَ عَلَيْهِ».
Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
1. Whoever has done something wrong to his brother, touching his honour or something else, should set things right with him today, before a time will come when there will be neither gold nor silver currency.
2. [What will happen then is that] if he has good deeds in his record, something equal to his wrong will be taken away. If he has no good deeds, some of the bad deeds of the other person will be transferred to him.
Abu Hurayrah ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr al-Dawsī embraced Islam in the year in which the Battle of Khaybar took place, i.e. Year 7 of the Hijri calendar. He was the Prophet’s companion who narrated the largest number of his hadiths, because he committed himself to remain close to the Prophet. He was keen to learn the Prophet’s hadiths and he remained for a long time in Madinah. He died in Year 58 AH, 678 CE.
