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2134. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Ādam and Mūsā argued, Mūsā said: 'O Ādam! You are the one that Allāh created with His Hand, and blew into you of His Spirit,[1] and you misled the people and caused them to be expelled from Paradise.' So Ādam said: 'You are Mūsā, the one Allāh selected with His Speech! Are you blaming me for something I did which Allāh had decreed for me, before creating the heavens and the earth?'" He said: "So Ādam confuted Mūsā." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Umar and Jundab.
This Hadīth is Ḥasan [Ṣaḥīḥ] Gharīb from this route, as a narration of Sulaimān At-Taimī from Al-A'mash. Some of the companions of Al-A'mash reported it similarly from Al-A'mash from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurairah
from the Prophet ﷺ. Some of them said: "From Al-A'mash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Sa'eed from the Prophet ﷺ." This Hadīth has been reported through more than one route from Abū Hurairah from the Prophet ﷺ.
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Footnotes
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[1] "Referring to the nobility and specificity of it, that is: 'From a spirit which is created' it does not indicate any limitation." Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi.
Commentary
Whatever good or bad a man does was written fifty thousand years (a long time) before the creation of the heavens and earth. So, if a man does a bad deed, let him offer his repentance and seek forgiveness from Allāh. Once he has offered his repentance, there is no justification to blame him for the deed in question done by him.
