Also read
Related sayings.
The Status of Dutifulness to the Mother [Tawbah]
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.
Seven Hundred Deadly Sins
Are the deadly sins only seven in number? Can lesser sins become major ones? Ibn Abbas explains.
Marriage and the Light of Faith
‘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.