A man apologising to another man for something that reached him about him

Ibn Awn says: I excused myself before Ibrahim over a report about me that had reached him. He said: "Do not offer excuses; we have accepted your excuse, even before you offered it."

Sayyiduna Rafi' bin Abi Rafi' al-Ta'i (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I came to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "You ordered me as you ordered me, and yet you yourself have entered into what you have entered into." He kept on offering me his excuses until I accepted his excuse.

Ibrahim says that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Beware of making excuses, for there is a great deal of lying in them."

Tariq says that Imam al-Sha'bi said: Shurayh came out to us to offer an excuse.

Shu'bah says: I was walking with al-Hakam when we saw Abu Ma'shar. Al-Hakam said: "Word has reached him about me that I said something about him. No! By Allah, besides whom there is no god, I said nothing of the kind." The narrator says: When Abu Ma'shar came, al-Hakam offered his excuse to him and said: "I have already sworn an oath before Shu'bah that I did not say what reached you from me."

Imam al-Sha'bi says: Ibrahim came to me and offered me his excuse over a matter that had reached me from him.