However, nothing is sure of their names or numbers. Ibn Ishaq viewed the same and he mentioned their names in detail. Imam Abu J a’ far mentioned in his Tarikh “History” on the authority of some people who had said: Eve gave birth to forty children through twenty births. Allah’s Messenger (Peace be upon him) said: “There is no sin more recurring punishment (very rapidly) in the present life, along with what awaits for its doer in the Hereafter, than transgression and severing the ties of relationship. His face used to go where the sun goes as a way of punishment and penalty in return for what he had done to his own brother. On the same day he killed his brother, Abel, his foot was tied up to his thighbone and his face was forcibly directed up to the sun disk. Mujahid said: Cain was brought punishment very soon afterwards. Historians said: Adam became very sick at heart and felt great sorrow for his dead son, Abel. Seeing him doing that, Cain said: Woe to me! Am I not even able to do as this crow and to hide the dead body of my brother? Then, he buried the body of his dead brother and covered it with earth. The murderer scratched the ground to hide the body of the dead crow. His brother, he carried him on his back for a full year (not knowing what to do with his brother’s corpse!).” Others said: He carried him on his back for one hundred years till Allah Almighty sent two crows who fought against one another. It cannot be found in any of the Prophetic Hadith Compilations. (Al-Ma’idah, 31) Some interpreters said: “After Cain had killedġ As for the Prophetic Hadith that was transmitted by some other narrators that reads: “The killer will bear all sins of the slain”, no one even knows its degree of validity: whether it be Authentic, Good, or even Weak.
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