Sahih al-Bukhari, 3470

Rapporté par Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri : Le Prophète (ﷺ) a dit : « Parmi les hommes des Bani Israël, il y avait un homme qui avait tué quatre-vingt-dix-neuf personnes. Il partit alors demander si son repentir pouvait être accepté. Il rencontra un moine et lui demanda si son repentir pouvait être accepté. Le moine répondit non, alors l’homme le tua. Il continua à demander jusqu’à ce qu’un homme lui conseille d’aller dans un certain village. (Il s’y rendit) mais la mort le surprit en chemin. En mourant, il tourna sa poitrine vers le village (où il espérait que son repentir serait accepté), et alors les anges de la miséricorde et les anges du châtiment se disputèrent à son sujet. Allah ordonna au village (vers lequel il allait) de se rapprocher de lui, et au village (d’où il venait) de s’éloigner, puis Il ordonna aux anges de mesurer la distance entre son corps et les deux villages. Il fut trouvé plus proche d’une empan du village (où il se rendait). Ainsi, il fut pardonné. »

Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Amongst the men of Bani Israel there was a man who had murdered ninety-nine persons. Then he set out asking (whether his repentance could be accepted or not). He came upon a monk and asked him if his repentance could be accepted. The monk replied in the negative and so the man killed him. He kept on asking till a man advised to go to such and such village. (So he left for it) but death overtook him on the way. While dying, he turned his chest towards that village (where he had hoped his repentance would be accepted), and so the angels of mercy and the angels of punishment quarrelled amongst themselves regarding him. Allah ordered the village (towards which he was going) to come closer to him, and ordered the village (whence he had come), to go far away, and then He ordered the angels to measure the distances between his body and the two villages. So he was found to be one span closer to the village (he was going to). So he was forgiven