Hadeeth 4
On the authority of Abdullah ibn Masood
(may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him), and he is the truthful, the believed, narrated
to us, “Verily the creation of each one of you is brought together in his
mother’s womb for forty days in the form of a nutfah (a drop), then he becomes
an alaqah (clot of blood) for a like period, then a mudghah (morsel of flesh) for
a like period, then there is sent to him the angel who blows his soul into him
and who is commanded with four matters: to write down his rizq (sustenance),
his life span, his actions, and whether he will be happy or unhappy (i.e.,
whether or not he will enter Paradise).
By the One, other than Whom there is no
deity, verily one of you performs the actions of the people of Paradise until
there is but an arms length between him and it, and that which has been written
overtakes him, and so he acts with the actions of the people of the Hellfire and
thus enters it; and verily one of you performs the actions of the people of the
Hellfire, until there is but an arms length between him and it, and that which
has been written overtakes him and so he acts with the actions of the people of
Paradise and thus he enters it.”
It was narrated by al-Bukhari and
Muslim.
to be continued . . . .
