Is it true that whoever sees an evil and does not forbid it, its doer will cling to him on the Day of Resurrection and question him about the reason for not forbidding it?
Enjoining good and forbidding evil is one of the greatest rituals of the religion. There is a hadith narrated from Abu Hurairah, mentioned by Ibn al-Athir and al-Mundhiri, whose wording is: "We used to hear that a man will cling to another man on the Day of Resurrection, whom he does not know, and say to him: 'Why do you come to me? There is no acquaintance between us!' He will say: 'You used to see me in error and committing evil, and you did not forbid me.'"
This hadith was mentioned by Razeen in Tajrid al-Sihah, and his book contains objectionable and weak narrations. Al-Dhahabi said: "He included in his book weak additions; had he refrained from them, he would have done well." Al-Shawkani said: "He included in his book, in which he compiled the major Islamic works, calamities and fabricated narrations that are unknown, and it is not known where he got them from." Based on this, this narration is not authentic.
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