قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ كَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صلّى الله عليه وسلّم يَحْكِي نَبِيًّا مِنَ الأَنْبِيَاءِ ضَرَبَهُ قَوْمُهُ فَأَدْمَوْهُ، وَهوَ يَمْسَحُ الدَّمَ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ، وَيَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِقَوْمِي فَإِنَّهُمْ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ.
Hazrat Abdullahra states, “I can almost visualise the Prophetsa narrating about one of the prophets whose nation had beaten him and caused him to bleed, while he was wiping the blood off his face and saying, ‘O Allah! Forgive my people, for they know not.’”
(Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab ahadithi l-anbiya’)