Open AccessRepentance and the Return to God
Author(s) -
Imad Jafar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the american journal of islamic social sciences/american journal of islamic social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2642-701X
pISSN - 0887-7653
DOI - 10.35632/ajiss.v36i3.622
Subject(s) - repentance , philosophy , religious studies , theology , islam , literature , history , art
A tradition found in the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim (d. 875) states that the Prophet Muḥammad told his companions, “O people, turn to God in tawba. Verily, I engage in tawba with Him one hundred times a day.” Many similar reports are scattered throughout the ḥadīth corpus, with one pertinent tradition even stating that the Prophet went so far as to christen himself the nabī al-tawba, that is, the “prophet of tawba.”