Volume 8, Book 77, Number 599:
Narrated Usama:
Once while I was with the Prophet and Sa’d, Ubai bin Ka’b and Mu’adh were also sitting with him,
there came to him a messenger from one of his daughters, telling him that her child was on the
verge of death. The Prophet told the messenger to tell her, “It is for Allah what He takes, and it is for
Allah what He gives, and everything has its fixed time (limit). So (she should) be patient and look for
Allah’s reward.”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 598:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “No woman should ask for the divorce of her sister (Muslim) so as to take her
place, but she should marry the man (without compelling him to divorce his other wife), for she will
have nothing but what Allah has written for her.”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 597:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle was asked about the offspring of the pagans. He said, “Allah knows what they
would have done (were they to live).”
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “No child is born but has the Islamic Faith, but its par –
ents turn it into a Jew or a Christian. It is as you help the animals give birth. Do you find among their
offspring a mutilated one before you mutilate them yourself?” The people said, “O Allah’s Apostle!
What do you think about those (of them) who die young?” The Prophet said, “Allah knows what they
would have done (were they to live).”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 596:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
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The Prophet ; was asked about the offspring of the pagans. He said, “Allah knows what they would
have done (were they to live).”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 595:
Narrated Imran bin Husain:
A man said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Can the people of Paradise be known (differentiated) from the
people of the Fire; The Prophet replied, “Yes.” The man said, “Why do people (try to) do (good) deeds?”
The Prophet said, “Everyone will do the deeds for which he has been created to do or he will do those
deeds which will be made easy for him to do.” (i.e. everybody will find easy to do such deeds as will
lead him to his destined place for which he has been created).
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 594:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, “Allah puts an angel in charge of the uterus and the angel says, ‘O Lord, (it is) se –
men! O Lord, (it is now ) a clot! O Lord, (it is now) a piece of flesh.’ And then, if Allah wishes to com –
plete its creation, the angel asks, ‘O Lord, (will it be) a male or a female? A wretched (an evil doer) or
a blessed (doer of good)? How much will his provisions be? What will his age be?’ So all that is writ –
ten while the creature is still in the mother’s womb.”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 593:
Narrated ‘Abdullah:
Allah’s Apostle, the truthful and truly-inspired, said, “Each one of you collected in the womb of his
mother for forty days, and then turns into a clot for an equal period (of forty days) and turns into a
piece of flesh for a similar period (of forty days) and then Allah sends an angel and orders him to
write four things, i.e., his provision, his age, and whether he will be of the wretched or the blessed (in
the Hereafter). Then the soul is breathed into him. And by Allah, a person among you (or a man) may
do deeds of the people of the Fire till there is only a cubit or an arm-breadth distance between him
and the Fire, but then that writing (which Allah has ordered the angel to write) precedes, and he
does the deeds of the people of Paradise and enters it; and a man may do the deeds of the people of
Paradise till there is only a cubit or two between him and Paradise, and then that writing precedes
and he does the deeds of the people of the Fire and enters it.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 592:
Narrated Asma ‘bint Abu Bakr:
The Prophet said, “I will be standing at the Lake-Fount so that I will see whom among you will
come to me; and some people will be taken away from me, and I will say, ‘O Lord, (they are) from me
and from my followers.’ Then it will be said, ‘Did you notice what they did after you? By Allah, they
kept on turning on their heels (turned as renegades).’ ” The sub-narrator, Ibn Abi Mulaika said, “O
Allah, we seek refuge with You from turning on our heels, or being put to trial in our religion.”
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