To what extent is the hadith "Repentance nullifies what came before it" authentic, and is it a hadith in the first place?
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The phrase "Repentance expiates what preceded it" has no known origin as a prophetic . However, its meaning is sound and resembles the hadith in Muslim: "Do you not know that Islam demolishes what came before it? And that migration () demolishes what came before it? And that Hajj demolishes what came before it?"
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