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56. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS would give it a new name. Then he said: Is it not the Sacred City? We said:. Indeed. Then he asked: Which day is this? We said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He remained silent and we thought he would give it a new name. . Then he said: Is this not the Day of Sacrifice? We said: Indeed. Then he said:. Your blood, your belongings and your honour are sacred as the sanctity of this day, this city and this month. Soon you will meet your Lord and He will call you to account for your deeds. So do not revert to disbelief after I am gone, slaying each other. Let him who is present convey this to him who is absent. Perchance, he who is told may remember it better than one who hears it today. Then he asked: Have 1 conveyed Allah's command; have I conveyed Allah's command?. We said: Yes. He supplicated: Allah, bear Thou witness (Bokhari and Muslim). 216. Abu Umamah Iyas ibn Harithi relates that the Holy Prophet said:. Allah decrees the Fire and debars Paradise for one who takes away the right of a. Muslim by a false oath. One man asked: Messenger of Allah, even if it should be an inconsiderable thing? He said: Even if it should be the twig of a wildberry bush (Muslim). 217. Adiyy ibn Umairah relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say:. When I appoint someone from among you to public office and he puts away by stealth a needle or even something less, that is embezzlement, and he will be called upon to produce it on the Day of Judgment. Thereupon one of the Ansar who had a dark complexion stood up ( I can recall him as if I can see him before me) and said: Messenger of Allah, take back from me your assignment. He asked: What is the matter? The man said: I have just heard you say this and this. The Holy Prophet said: I say it again that one whom I appoint to public office must render an account of everything big and small. What he is given out of it he may take, and what he is forbidden he should abstain from (Muslim). 218. Umar ibn Khattab relates that on the day of the battle of Khaibar a group of the companions of the Holy Prophet came and began to recount: So and So has become a martyr, So and So has become a martyr. Presently they passed by a dead body and exclaimed: He is also a martyr. The Holy Prophet thereupon said: Surely not. I have seen him in the Fire in a cloak which he had embezzled (Muslim). 219. Abu Qatadah Harith ibn Ribi' relates that the Holy Prophet stood among them and mentioned that believing in Allah and striving in His cause were the highest category of deeds. A man stood up and said: Messenger of. Allah, tell me, if I were killed in the cause of Allah, would all my sins be removed from me? He answered: Yes, if you were to be killed in the cause of Allah and you are steadfast, looking forward to your reward, marching forth and not turning away. Presently, the Holy Prophet said to him: Repeat what you had said: The man repeated: Tell me, if I were to be killed in the cause of Allah would all my sins be removed from me? He answered: Yes, if you are killed while you are steadfast, looking forward to your reward, marching forth and not turning away. But if you owe any debt that will not be remitted. Gabriel has just told me this (Muslim).