Repentance Before the Final Moment

Assalamu Alaikum, kids! Welcome back to "Hadith for Kids"! Imagine you are

playing a game. You can score points all game long, but what happens when the final whistle

blows? Beep! The game is over, right? You can't score

anymore points. Today's Hadith tells us when the "whistle blows" for our life. Abdullah bin 'Umar

bin Al-Khattab (May Allah be pleased with them) reported that: The Prophet (ﷺ)

said, "Allah accepts a slave's repentance as long as the latter is not on his death

bed (that is, before the soul of the dying person reaches the throat)". At-Tirmidhi,

who categorised it as Hadith Hasan Riyad as-Salihin, 18 The Final Whistle