Category:The Book of Destiny in Sahih Muslim

List of Chapters in The Book of Destiny

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The Book of Destiny Summary

1. By Him besides Whom there is no god that one amongst you acts like the people deserving Paradise until between him and Paradise there remains but the distance of a cubit when suddenly the writing of destiny overcomes him and he begins to act like the denizens of Hell and thus enters Hell and another one acts in the way of the denizens of Hell until there remains between him and Hell a distance of a cubit that the writing of destiny overcomes him and then he begins to act like the people of Paradise and enters Paradise
2. This hadith has been reported on the authority of Amash with the same chain of transmitters and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Waki the words are The creation of any one of you is like this that semen is collected in the womb of the mother for forty nights and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Shuba the words are Forty nights and forty days
3. The narrator came to a person from amongst the Companions of Allah Messenger who was called Hudhaifa Bin Usaid Ghifari and said How can a person be an evil one without committing an evil deed Thereupon the person said to him You are surprised at this whereas I have heard Allah Messenger as saying When forty two nights pass after the semen gets into the womb Allah sends the angel and gives him shape
4. Then he creates his sense of hearing sense of sight his skin his flesh his bones and then says My Lord would he be male or female And your Lord decides as He desires and the angel then puts down that also and then says My Lord what about his age And your Lord decides as He likes it and the angel puts it down
5. He then recited this verse from the Then who gives to the needy and guards against evil and accepts the excellent the truth of Islam and the path of righteousness it prescribes We shall make easy for him the easy end and who is miserly and considers himself above need We shall make easy for him the difficult end xcii
6. Abu AlAswad reported that Imran b Husain asked him What is your view what the people do today in the world and strive for is it something decreed for them or preordained for them or will their fate in the Hereafter be deterrained by the fact that their Prophets brought them teaching which they did not act upon I said Of course it is something which is predetermined for them and preordained for them
7. and thus they became deserving of punishment Thereupon he said Of course it happens as it is decreed by Destiny and preordained for them and this view is confirmed by this verse of the Book of Allah the Exalted and Glorious Consider the soul and Him Who made it perfect then breathed into it its sin and its piety xci
8. Moses said Are you that Adam whose lapse caused you to get out of Paradise Adam said to him Are you that Moses whom Allah selected for His Messengership for His conversation and you blame me for an affair which had been ordained for me before I was created This is how Adam came the better of Moses
9. The adultery of the eye is the lustful look and the adultery of the ears is listening to voluptuous song or talk and the adultery of the tongue is licentious speech and the adultery of the hand is the lustful grip embrace and the adultery of the feet is to walk to the place where he intends to commit adultery and the heart yearns and desires which he may or may not put into effect
10. A person said Allah Messenger what about those apes and swine which suffered metamorphosis Thereupon Allah Apostle said Verily Allah the Exalted and Glorious did not destroy a people or did not torment a people and let their race grow
11. Abu Huraira reported Allah Messenger as saying A strong believer is better and is more lovable to Allah than a weak believer and there is good in everyone but cherish that which gives you benefit in the Hereafter and seek help from Allah and do not lose heart and if anything in the form of trouble comes to you dont say If I had not done that it would not have happened so and so but say Allah did that what He had ordained to do and your if opens the gate for the Satan

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