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 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) semen! O Lord, (it is now ) a clot!
O Lord, (it is now) a piece of flesh.' And then, if Allah wishes to
complete 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 written while the creature is still in the mother's womb."
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 596
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
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 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 parents 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 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 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 600
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
That while he was sitting with the Prophet a man from the Ansar came
and said, "O Allah's Apostle! We get slave girls from the war
captives and we love property; what do you think about coitus
interruptus?" Allah's Apostle said, "Do you do that? It is better
for you not to do it, for there is no soul which Allah has ordained
to come into existence but will be created."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 601
Narrated Hudhaifa:
The Prophet once delivered a speech in front of us wherein he left
nothing but mentioned (about) everything that would happen till the
Hour. Some of us stored that our minds and some forgot it. (After
that speech) I used to see events taking place (which had been
referred to in that speech) but I had forgotten them (before their
occurrence). Then I would recognize such events as a man recognizes
another man who has been absent and then sees and recognizes him.
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 602
Narrated 'Ali:
While we were sitting with the Prophet who had a stick with which he
was scraping the earth, he lowered his head and said, "There is none
of you but has his place assigned either in the Fire or in
Paradise." Thereupon a man from the people said, "Shall we not
depend upon this, O Allah's Apostle?" The Prophet said, "No, but
carry on and do your deeds, for everybody finds it easy to do such
deeds (as will lead him to his place)." The Prophet then recited the
Verse: 'As for him who gives (in charity) and keeps his duty to
Allah..' (92.5)
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 603
Narrated Abu Huraira:
We witnessed along with Allah's Apostle the Khaibar (campaign).
Allah's Apostle told his companions about a man who claimed to be a
Muslim, "This man is from the people of the Fire." When the battle
started, the man fought very bravely and received a great number of
wounds and got crippled. On that, a man from among the companions of
the Prophet came and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Do you know what the
man you described as of the people of the Fire has done? He has
fought very bravely for Allah's Cause and he has received many
wounds." The Prophet said, "But he is indeed one of the people of
the Fire." Some of the Muslims were about to have some doubt about
that statement. So while the man was in that state, the pain caused
by the wounds troubled him so much that he put his hand into his
quiver and took out an arrow and committed suicide with it. Off went
some men from among the Muslims to Allah's Apostle and said, "O
Allah's Apostle! Allah has made your statement true. So-and-so has
committed suicide." Allah's Apostle said, "O Bilal! Get up and
announce in public: None will enter Paradise but a believer, and
Allah may support this religion (Islam) with a wicked man."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 604
Narrated Sahl bin Sa'd:
There was a man who fought most bravely of all the Muslims on behalf
of the Muslims in a battle (Ghazwa) in the company of the Prophet.
The Prophet looked at him and said. "If anyone would like to see a
man from the people of the Fire, let him look at this (brave man)."
On that, a man from the People (Muslims) followed him, and he was in
that state i.e., fighting fiercely against the pagans till he was
wounded, and then he hastened to end his life by placing his sword
between his breasts (and pressed it with great force) till it came
out between his shoulders. Then the man (who was watching that
person) went quickly to the Prophet and said, "I testify that you
are Allah's Apostle!" The Prophet asked him, "Why do you say that?"
He said, "You said about so-and-so, 'If anyone would like to see a
man from the people of the Fire, he should look at him.' He fought
most bravely of all of us on behalf of the Muslims and I knew that
he would not die as a Muslim (Martyr). So when he got wounded, he
hastened to die and committed suicide." There-upon the Prophet said,
"A man may do the deeds of the people of the Fire while in fact he
is one of the people of Paradise, and he may do the deeds of the
people of Paradise while in fact he belongs to the people of Fire,
and verily, (the rewards of) the deeds are decided by the last
actions (deeds)".
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 605
Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
The Prophet forbade vowing and said, "In fact, vowing does not
prevent anything, but it makes a miser to spend his property."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 606
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said (that Allah said), "Vowing does not bring to the
son of Adam anything I have not already written in his fate, but
vowing is imposed on him by way of fore ordainment. Through vowing I
make a miser spend of his wealth."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 607
Narrated Abu Musa:
While we were with Allah's Apostle in a holy battle, we never went
up a hill or reached its peak or went down a valley but raised our
voices with Takbir. Allah's Apostle came close to us and said, "O
people! Don't exert yourselves, for you do not call a deaf or an
absent one, but you call the All-Listener, the All-Seer." The
Prophet then said, "O 'Abdullah bin Qais! Shall I teach you a
sentence which is from the treasures of Paradise? ( It is): 'La
haula wala quwata illa billah. (There is neither might nor power
except with Allah)."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 608
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
That the Prophet said, "No Caliph is appointed but has two groups of
advisors: One group advises him to do good and urges him to adopt
it, and the other group advises him to do bad and urges him to adopt
it; and the protected is the one whom Allah protects."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 609
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
I did not see anything so resembling minor sins as what Abu Huraira
said from the Prophet, who said, "Allah has written for the son of
Adam his inevitable share of adultery whether he is aware of it or
not: The adultery of the eye is the looking (at something which is
sinful to look at), and the adultery of the tongue is to utter (what
it is unlawful to utter), and the innerself wishes and longs for
(adultery) and the private parts turn that into reality or refrain
from submitting to the temptation."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 610
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
(regarding the Verse) "And We granted the vision (Ascension to the
heavens "Miraj") which We showed you (O Muhammad as an actual eye
witness) but as a trial for mankind.' (17.60): Allah's Apostle
actually saw with his own eyes the vision (all the things which were
shown to him) on the night of his Night Journey to Jerusalem (and
then to the heavens). The cursed tree which is mentioned in the
Qur'an is the tree of Az-Zaqqum.
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 611
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Adam and Moses argued with each other. Moses said
to Adam. 'O Adam! You are our father who disappointed us and turned
us out of Paradise.' Then Adam said to him, 'O Moses! Allah favored
you with His talk (talked to you directly) and He wrote (the Torah)
for you with His Own Hand. Do you blame me for action which Allah
had written in my fate forty years before my creation?' So Adam
confuted Moses, Adam confuted Moses," the Prophet added, repeating
the Statement three times.
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 612
Narrated Warrad:
(the freed slave of Al-Mughira bin Shu'ba) Muawiya wrote to Mughira.
'Write to me what you heard the Prophet saying after his prayer.' So
Al-Mughira dictated to me and said, "I heard the Prophet saying
after the prayer, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah
Alone Who has no partner. O Allah! No-one can withhold what You
give, and none can give what You withhold, and the fortune of a man
of means is useless before You (i.e., only good deeds are of value)."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 613
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Take refuge with Allah from the difficulties of
severe calamities, from having an evil end and a bad fate and from
the malicious joy of your enemies."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 614
Narrated 'Abdullah:
When taking an oath, the Prophet very often used to say, "No, by Him
Who turns the hearts."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 615
Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
The Prophet said to Ibn Saiyad, "I have kept for you a secret." Ibn
Saiyad said, "Ad-Dukh." The Prophet said, "Keep quiet, for you
cannot go beyond your limits (or you cannot exceed what has been
foreordained for you)." On that, 'Umar said (to the Prophet ),
"Allow me to chop off his neck!" The Prophet said, "Leave him, for
if he is he (i.e., Ad-Dajjal), then you will not be able to overcome
him, and if he is not, then you gain no good by killing him."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 616
Narrated 'Aisha:
I asked Allah's Apostle about the plague. He said, "That was a means
of torture which Allah used to send upon whom-so-ever He wished, but
He made it a source of mercy for the believers, for anyone who is
residing in a town in which this disease is present, and remains
there and does not leave that town, but has patience and hopes for
Allah's reward, and knows that nothing will befall him except what
Allah has written for him, then he will get such reward as that of a
martyr."
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 617
Narrated Al-Bara' bin 'Azib:
I saw the Prophet on the Day of (the battle of) Al-Khandaq, carrying
earth with us and saying, "By Allah, without Allah we would not have
been guided, neither would we have fasted, nor would we have prayed.
O Allah! Send down Sakina (calmness) upon us and make our feet firm
when we meet (the enemy). The pagans have rebelled against us, but
if they want to put us in affliction (i.e., fight us) we refuse (to
flee)." (See Hadith No. 430, Vol. 5).