Sa'id bin Jubair reported: The inhabitants of Kufa differed in regard to this verse: "But whoever slays another believer intentionally, his requital shall be Hell" (iv. 92), so I went to Ibn 'Abbas and asked him about it, whereupon he said: This has been revealed and nothing abrogated it.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Shu'bah with the same chain of narrators but with a slight variation of wording.

Sa'id bin Jubair reported: 'Abd al Rahman bin Abzi commanded me that I should ask Ibn 'Abbas about these two verses: "He who slays a believer intentionally his requital shall be Hell where he would abide for ever" (iv. 92). So, I asked him and he said: Nothing has abrogated it. And as for this verse: "And they who call not upon another god with Allah and slay not the soul which Allah has forbidden, except in the cause of justice" (xxv. 68), he (Ibn Abbas (RA)) said: This has been revealed in regard to the polytheists."

Ibn 'Abbas said: This verse was revealed in Makkah: "And they who call not upon another god with Allah and slay not the soul which Allah has forbidden except in the cause of justice" up to the word Muhdana (abased). Thereupon the polytheists said: Islam is of no avail to us for we have made peer with Allah and we killed the soul which Allah had forbidden to do and we committed debauchery, and it was (on this occasion) that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, revealed this verse: "Except him who repents and believes and does good deeds" up to the end Ibn 'Abbas says: He who enters the fold of Islam and understands its command and then kills the soul there is no repentance for him.

Sa'id bin Jubair reported: I said to Ibn Abbas (RA): Will the repentance of that person be accepted who kills a believer intentionally? He said: No. I recited to him this verse of Sura al-Furqan (xix.): "And those who call not upon another god with Allah and slay not the soul which Allah has forbidden except in the cause of justice" to the end of the verse. He said: This is a Makkahn verse which has been abrogated by a verse revealed at Madinah: "He who slays a believer intentionally, for him is the requital of Hell-Fire where he would abide forever," and in the narration of Ibn Hisham (the words are): I recited to him this verse of Sura al-Furqan: "Except one who made repentance."