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As-Sadaqa (charity) expiates sins

'Who amongst you remembers the statement of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about afflictions'?' I said, 'I know it as the Prophet (ﷺ) had said it.' `Umar رضی اللہ عنہ said, 'No doubt, you are bold. How did he say it?' I said, 'A man's afflictions (wrong deeds) concerning his wife, children and neighbors are expiated by (his) prayers, charity, and enjoining good.' (The sub-narrator Sulaiman added that he said, 'The prayer, charity, enjoining good and forbidding evil.') `Umar said, 'I did not mean that, but I ask about that affliction which will spread like the waves of the sea.' I said, 'O chief of the believers! You need not be afraid of it as there is a closed door between you and it.' He asked, 'Will the door be broken or opened?' I replied, 'No, it will be broken.' He said, 'Then, if it is broken, it will never be closed again?' I replied, 'Yes.' " Then we were afraid to ask what that door was, so we asked Masruq to inquire, and he asked Hudhaifa رضی اللہ عنہ regarding it. Hudhaifa رضی اللہ عنہ said, "The door was `Umar. "We further asked Hudhaifa رضی اللہ عنہ whether `Umar knew what that door meant. Hudhaifa رضی اللہ عنہ replied in the affirmative and added, "He knew it as one knows that there will be a night before the tomorrow morning." And this is because the hadith I narrated was not wrong.

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