Mukhtasar Muslim

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Among the people before you, there was a man who had killed ninety-nine people. He asked, "Who is the most learned person on earth?" People told him about a monk. He went to him and said that he had killed ninety-nine people; is there any repentance for him? The monk said, "No! (Your repentance will not be accepted)." So he killed the monk as well, thus completing one hundred murders. Then he asked the people, "Who is the most learned person on earth?" People told him about a scholar (so he went to him) and asked that he had killed one hundred people; is there any repentance for him? He replied, "Yes, there is, and what can prevent you from repenting?" So go to such-and-such land; there are some people there who worship Allah Almighty. Go and worship with them, and do not return to your own land, for it is a bad land. Then he set out for that land, and when he had covered half the distance, death overtook him. Now there was a dispute between the angels of punishment and the angels of mercy. The angels of mercy said that he was coming, repenting and turning to Allah with a sincere heart. The angels of punishment said that he had not done any good deed. Finally, an angel came in the form of a man, and they appointed him to decide. He said, "Measure the distance of the land on both sides, and whichever land he is closer to, he belongs to that." So they measured the land and found him closer to the land he intended, so the angels of mercy took him away. Qatadah said (the narrator of the hadith), Hasan said that it has also been narrated to us that when he was dying, he moved himself on his chest (so that he would be closer to that land).