The Trick of the Eyes

Ibn Abbas on the status of dutifulness to the mother. Also includes evidence of his change of opinion on the issue of the possibility of repentance for the crime of deliberately killing a believer.

Are the deadly sins only seven in number? Can lesser sins become major ones? Ibn Abbas explains.

‘Ikrimah, Sumay’ and Kurayb report that Ibn ‘Abbās – Allah be pleased with them – said to them: Marry, for if the servant of Allah commits fornication Allah snatches the light of īmān from him, and may or may not return it to him. Ibn Sa’d, Al-Ṭabaqāt Al-Kubrā (Dār Ṣādir ed.), Vol.5 p287.