1961 – And I, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm, said: Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Shādān narrated to us; he said: Abū Salamah Usāmah ibn Aḥmad al-Tujībī in Egypt related to us; he said: Aḥmad ibn Abī Nājah wrote to me; he said: Ḍamrah narrated to us, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Abū Ḥuṣayn, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, who said, “I know of no repentance for one who kills a believer other than seeking forgiveness.”

1962 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim recorded it; he said: My father told us; he said: al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Maymūn al-ʿAnazī narrated to us; he said: al-Ḥajjāj al-Aswad narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn ⦗1126⦘, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ regarding the Almighty’s words, “And whoever kills a believer deliberately, his recompense is Hell” (Q. 4:93). The Prophet ﷺ said, “That is his recompense, should Allah exact it of him.”

1963 – The same report is transmitted from Abū Ṣāliḥ, ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, and Abū Mijlaz.

1964 – ʿAṭāʾ ibn Dīnār narrated from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr that the verse was revealed about Maqīs ibn Ṣubābah when he killed a man of the Fihr clan; the Prophet ﷺ had sent him with that man to collect the blood-money for his brother, and so Allah revealed the verse concerning him.