"it was revealed * (And whoever kills a believer intentionally...) * we were apprehensive of it, then the verse in (al-Furqān) was revealed: * (And those who do not invoke...) * " the verse. This is a rejected narration; I do not know from whom the error is, for it is in al-Nasāʾī as it is in Abū Dāwūd from the same chain: from Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm who said: Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq with it, and if it were not for that, it would have been clear to say that the error is from Mujālid ibn ʿAwf due to his unknown status. And Allāh knows best. Second: in the previous narration of al-Bukhārī from Ibn ʿAbbās, he said: there is no repentance for the intentional killer, and this is well-known from him, having many chains as stated by Ibn Kathīr and Ibn Ḥajar, and the majority are against it, and this is the correct view without doubt, and the verse in (al-Furqān) is explicit in that, and the verse in (al-Nisāʾ) does not contradict it because it is about the punishment of the killer and not his repentance, and this is very clear, and it seems that for this reason he reverted to it as I found in some narrations from him, I saw that it is necessary to mention it due to its rarity, and the neglect of the two ḥāfiẓs regarding it: the first: what ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār narrated from him: that a man came to him and said: I proposed to a woman, but she refused to marry me, and another proposed to her and she wanted to marry him, so I became jealous of her and killed her, is there repentance for me? He said: Is your mother alive? He said: No. He said: "Repent to Allāh, and draw near to Him as much as you can." So I went and asked Ibn ʿAbbās: about his question regarding his mother's life? He said: "I do not know of any deed closer to Allāh than honoring the mother." It was narrated by al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (no. 4) with a ṣaḥīḥ isnād according to the conditions of "the two ṣaḥīḥs."