The Book of Destiny (Kitab-ul-Qadr) - 52 hadith found in ' The Book of Destiny (Kitab-ul-Qadr) ' of Sahih Muslim.

The Book of Destiny (Kitab-ul-Qadr)
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52 hadith found in ' The Book of Destiny (Kitab-ul-Qadr) ' of Sahih Muslim.
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6390
Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace beupon
him) who is the most truthful (of the human beings) and his being
truthful (is a fact) said: Verily your creation is on this wise. The
constituents of one of you are collected for forty days in his
mother'swomb in the form of blood, after which it becomes a clot of
blood in another period of forty days. Then it becomes a lump of flesh
and forty days later Allah sends His angel to it with instructions
concerning four things, so the angel writes down his livelihood, his
death, his deeds, his fortune and misfortune. By Him, besides Whom
there is no god, that one amongst you acts like thepeople 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.
6391
This hadith has been reported on the authority of A'mash 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 Shu'ba (the words
are):" Forty nights and forty days." And in the hadith transmitted on
the authority of Jarir and 'Isa(the words are):" Forty days."
6392
Hudhaifa b. Usaid reported directly from Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) that lie said: When the drop of (semen) remains in
thewomb for forty or fifty (days) or forty nights, theangel comes and
says: MyLord, will he be good or evil? And both these things would be
written. Then the angel says: My Lord, would he be male or female? And
both these things are written. And his deeds and actions, his death,
his livelihood; these are also recorded. Then his document of destiny
is rolled and there is no, addition to and subtraction from it.
6393
'Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported: Evil one is he who is evil in the womb
of his mother and the good one is he who takes lesson from the (fate
of) others. The narrator came to a person from amongst theCompanion of
Allah's Me ssenger (may peace be upon him) who was called Hudhaifa b.
Usaid Ghifari and said: How cana person be an evil one without
(cornmittilng an evil) deed? Thereupon the person said to him: You are
surprised at this, whereas I have heard Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saving: When forty nightspass after the semen getsinto
the womb, Allah sends the angel and gives him the shape. Then he
creates his senseof hearing, sense of sight, his skin, his flesh, his
bones, and then says: My Lord, would he be male or female? And
yourLord 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. Then he says: My Lord, what
about his livelihood? Andthen the Lord decides as He likes and the
angel writes it down, and then the angel gets out with his scroll of
destiny in his hand and nothing is added to it and nothing is
subtracted from it.
6394
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah b. Mas'ud
through another chain of transmitters.
6395
Abu Tufail reported: I visited Abu Sariha Hudhaifa b. Usaid al-Ghifari
who said: I listened with these two ears of mine Allahs Messenger (may
peace beupon him) as saying: The semen stays in the wombfor forty
nights, then the angel, gives it a shape. Zubair said: I think that he
said: One who fashions that and decideswhether he would be male or
female. Then he (the angel) says: Would his limbs be full or
imperfect? And then the Lord makes thein full andperfect or otherwise
as He desires. Then he says: My Lord, what about his livelihood, and
his death and what about his disposition? And then theLord decides
about his misfortune and fortune.
6396
Hadhaifa b. Usaid Ghifari,a Companion of Allah's Messenger (may peace
beupon him), reported it directly from Allah's Messenger (may peace
upon him). as he said: There is an angel who looks after the womb when
Allah decides to create any- thing after more than forty nights are
over; the rest of the hadith is the same.
6397
Anas b. Malik reported directly from Allah's Messenger (may peace
beupon him) that he said: Allah, the Exlated and Glorious, has
appointed an angel as the caretakerof the womb, and he would say: My
Lord, it is now a drop of semen; myLord, It is now a clot of blood; my
Lord, it has now become a lump of flesh, and when Allah decides to
give it a final shape, the angel says: My Lord, would it be male
orfemale or would he be an evil or a good person?What about his
livelihood and his age? And it is all written as he is in the womb of
his mother.