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2137. 'Abdullāh bin Mas'ūd said: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ narrated to us – and he is the truthful and entrusted one: 'Indeed the creation of one of you is gathered inside his mother in forty days. Then, for a similar period, he is a clot. Then, for a similar period, he is a piece of flesh. Then Allāh sends the angel to him to blow the soul into him, and he is ordered to write four (things): To write his provision, his life-span, his works, and whether he will be wretched or happy. By the One besides Whom there is none other worthy of worship! One of you will do deeds of the people of Paradise, until there is between him and it but a forearm span, then he is overcome by what is written for him, and he is sealed off with the deeds of the people of the Fire, so that he enters it. And indeed one of you will do deeds of the people of the Fire, until there is between him and it but a forearm span, then he is overcome by what is written for him, and he is sealed off with the deeds of the people of Paradise, so that he enters it.'" (Sahih)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Sahih.
(Another chain, but including Yahya bin Sa'eed) with similar meaning.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] There are
narrations on this topic from Abū Hurairah and Anas, and I heard Ahmad bin Al-Hasan say: "I heard Ahmad bin Hanbal saying: 'I have not seen the likes of Yahya bin Sa'eed with my eyes.'"[1] And this Hadīth is Hasan Ṣāḥih.
Shu'bah and Ath-Thawrī reported similar from Al-A'mash.
(Another chain) with similar meaning.
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Commentary
It is necessary that all of us be constantly supplicating to Allāh for a good end to our lives, and salvation from an evil end. It is also necessary that we, on the basis of our seeing a person doing what he does, do not jump to judgement on whether he is destined for Hell or Paradise, since we have no means to know how he will behave towards the end of his life.
