Rifa’ah bin Shaddad says: One day I was standing by the bedside of Mukhtar. When it became clear to me that he was a liar, by Allah! I intended to draw my sword and strike off his neck. But then I remembered a hadith that Hazrat Amr bin Al-Hamq (may Allah be pleased with him) had narrated to me, that I heard the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) say: Whoever grants safety to a Muslim for his life and then later kills him, I am free from the killer.