Volume 9, Book 93, Number 605:
Narrated Safwan bin Muhriz:
A man asked Ibn ‘Umar, “What have you heard from Allah’s Apostle regarding An-Najwa?” He
said, “Everyone of you will come close to His Lord Who will screen him from the people and say to
him, ‘Did you do so-and-so?’ He will reply, ‘Yes.’ Then Allah will say, ‘Did you do so-and-so?’ He will
reply, ‘Yes.’ So Allah will question him and make him confess, and then Allah will say, ‘I screened
your sins in the world and forgive them for you today.’ “
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 96:
Narrated Safwan bin Muhriz:
A man asked Ibn ‘Umar, “What did you hear Allah’s Apostle saying regarding An-Najwa (secret
talk between Allah and His believing worshipper on the Day of Judgment)?” He said, “(The Prophet
said), “One of you will come close to his Lord till He will shelter him in His screen and say: Did you
commit such-and-such sin? He will say, ‘Yes.’ Then Allah will say: Did you commit such and such
sin? He will say, ‘Yes.’ So Allah will make him confess (all his sins) and He will say, ‘I screened them
(your sins) for you in the world, and today I forgive them for you.”‘
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 207:
Narrated Safwan bin Muhriz:
While Ibn Umar was performing the Tawaf (around the Ka’ba), a man came up to him and said,
“O Abu ‘AbdurRahman!” or said, “O Ibn Umar! Did you hear anything from the Prophet about An-
Najwa?” Ibn ‘Umar said, “I heard the Prophet saying, ‘The Believer will be brought near his Lord.”
(Hisham, a sub-narrator said, reporting the Prophet’s words), “The believer will come near (his Lord)
till his Lord covers him with His screen and makes him confess his sins. (Allah will ask him), ‘Do you
know (that you did) ‘such-and-such sin?” He will say twice, ‘Yes, I do.’ Then Allah will say, ‘I con –
cealed it in the world and I forgive it for you today.’ Then the record of his good deeds will be folded
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up. As for the others, or the disbelievers, it will be announced publicly before the witnesses: ‘These
are ones who lied against their Lord.”