The Mu'allaqa of Labid ibn Rabi'a (3)

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At a glance

«دمن تجرم بعد عهد أنيسها حجج خلون حلالها وحرامها»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

Connections

Mentions: Sayyi'at (evil deeds and sins)

People and things also explored

The reckoning of good and bad deeds· Sunan Abi Dawud 1371 — forgiveness of past sins· Sunan Abi Dawud 1372 — forgiveness of past sins· Sunan Abi Dawud 1504 — forgiveness of past sins· Sunan Abi Dawud 1741 — forgiveness of past sins· Sunan Abi Dawud 2425 — forgiveness of past sins· Sunan Abi Dawud 2496 — deeds settled between people· Sunan Abi Dawud 2844 — a qirat lost from the reward each day

Sources

Sharh al-Mu'allaqat al-Sab' by al-Zawzani, al-Maktaba al-Tijariyya al-Kubra (1921)

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The reckoning of good and bad deeds

The reckoning of good and bad deeds is what the texts say about how deeds are counted, written, multiplied, erased and weighed; it is the subject of the Hasanat and Sayyi'at Ledger, Calculator and Counter. Its rule is a hadith qudsi: a good deed done is written as ten up to seven hundred times, a good deed intended is written as one, a bad deed done is written as one, and a bad deed left is written as a good deed Muslim 131 — God has written good deeds and bad deeds; the Qur'an agrees that a good deed has ten like it and a bad deed is repaid only its like Qur'an 6:160. Other texts then name figures for particular acts, others erase, others weigh in measures that are not numbers, such as the qirat and the rank, and others describe the scribes, the record and the Scale Qur'an 82:11 Qur'an 21:47. The record describes what the texts contain and computes no one's outcome: acceptance, sincerity and every condition lie outside the number.