So he went to a monk and asked him is there any chance my repentance can be accepted? And the monk replied, are you crazy!!!!! You killed 99 people! What an abomination! (not in those exact words...) So the man killed him... lol, that's 100.
Once again he felt bad and still sought to reconcile his actions by asking someone else... So he went to a 'alim (scholar) and asked him... Is there any chance my repentance can be accepted? I've killed 100 people... So the scholar said "Who stands between you and repentance? Go to such and such a land; there you will find a people devoted to the worship of Allah, join them in worship and do not come back to your land for it is an evil place." So he prayed his tawbah and started to travel to the neighbouring city and on the way he rested and realised he was dying...
He was so weak with the pangs of death but he mustard all the energy he had left in him and tossed his body towards the city he was going to... So down descended angels, angels of Mercy and of angels of Punishment and they disputed about who would take his soul.... The angels of Mercy said he was on his way to the new city and he had a repenting heart to Allah so we're going to take him, and the angels of Punishment said but he didn't reach the city so his tawbah isn't complete so we're going to take him...
So Allah sent another angel down to settle the dispute... He said measure the distance between him and his original city and the city he was going to whichever city he is closest to he is considered of those people...
So they measured the distance and Allah the Most-Merciful, the Oft-Forgiving, commanded the earth between the man and the new city to constrict and the earth between him and his old city to expand- He was found to be closer to the new city by the distance of a handspan! subhanAllah it was because of that final toss! And so the angels of Mercy took him..
Isn't that the most beautiful story ever? This has been worded in my own words... It's from Bukhari and Muslim... Do a google search for the original wording of the story :) Allah knows best.
The moral of the story is to strive towards Allah till our dying breath and seek His Mercy till our final ounce of energy! ya Allah!
On the authority of Anas, who said: I heard the messenger of Allah say:
Allah the Almighty has said: “O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as its.”
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