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11) Ibn 'Abbas said: When this verse was revealed: (Whether you disclose what is in your minds or conceal it, Allah will call you to account according to it) it caused anxiety to the companions as had never been before. Then Allah's Messenger (pbuh) observed: Say: We have heard and obeyed and submitted (to The Lord!). The narrator added: Allah instilled faith in their hearts and further revealed (for their satisfaction) this verse: (Allah burdens not a soul beyond its capacity. It will get every good that it earns and it will suffer every ill that it commits. Our Lord! Call us not to account if we forget or make a mistake. (When they said the same verse) Allah said: I have done. They further said: Our Lord! Lay not upon us a burden as your did lay on those before us. Allah said: I have done so The companions further said. And pardon us, have Mercy on us . your are our protector. The Lord said: one.

12) Narrated Abu Huraira: When this verse was revealed to Allah's Messenger (pbuh): (To Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth and whether you disclose what is in your minds or conceal it, Allah will reckon you according to it. Then He will forgive whom He pleases and chastise whom He likes as Allah is Al-Omnipotent over every thing). The narrator said: The companions of Allah's Messenger (pbuh) felt it hard. They came to him, sat down on their knees and said: O Messenger of Allah, we have been assigned with some duties (tasks) which we have capability to perform such as: prayer (Salat), fasting (Saum), fighting in Allah's way (Jihad), and charity (Zakat). Now this (the above mentioned verse) was revealed to you and it is beyond our power to live up to Them, Allah's Messenger (pbuh) said: Do you intend to say what the people of the two scriptures (The Jews and Christians) had said before you: "We hear and disobey". Rather you should say: "We hear, obey and seek your forgiveness, our Lord! And to You is the return". When the people recited it, their tongues became subdued with it. Then Allah revealed: (The Messenger believes in what is sent down to him from His Lord, and so do the believers (following him). Each one believes in Allah and His angels and His books and His Messengers, saying: We differentiate not between any of His Messengers; and they say: We hear and seek your forgiveness, our Lord! And to you is the return. When they (The companions) said the same, Allah abrogated this verse and Allah the Al Great, revealed a new one replacing it: (Allah burdens not a soul beyond its capacity. It gets every good that it earns and it suffers every ill that it earns Our Lord! Punish us not, if we forget or make a mistake. (When the companions repeated the same words) Allah said: Yes: (The companions further repeated the words as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)) Our Lord! Do not lay on us a burden as that you had laid on those before us. Allah said: Yes. (The companions further repeated) Our Lord impose not on us (burdens) which we have no strength to bear. Allah said: Yes. (The companions further repeated). And pardon us and provide us protection; and have Mercy on us. you are our Patron, so please grant us victory over the disbelieving people). Allah said: Yes.

13) Narrated Abu Huraira that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) who said: Allah (sw) said: My mercy has preceded (excelled) my wrath.

14) Narrated Abu Huraira that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) said: Allah says: Whenever My slave intends to do a bad deed, (I say to the deeds recording angels): Do not record it against him until he (actually) commits it. If he has done so, write it down exactly as one in his record book. But if he refrains from it for My sake, write down this as a virtue in his favor. And when he intends to do a good deed, but does not actually do it, write it as a virtue for him. And if he puts it into practice, write its reward equal to, from ten to seven hundred times (in his account).