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2139. Salmān narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Nothing turns back the Decree except supplication, and nothing increases the life-span except righteousness." (Da'if)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] There is a narration on this topic from Abū Asīd.
This Hadīth is Hasan Gharīb as a narration of Yahya bin Aḍ-Durais. And there are two persons known as Abū Mawdūd, one of them is
called Fīḍḍāh, and the other ‘Abdul-‘Azīz bin Abī Sulaimān. One of them is from Al-Baṣrah, and the other from Al-Madīnah, and they lived during the same era. The Abū Mawdūd who reported this Hadīth – his name is Fīḍḍāh, from Al-Baṣrah.
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Commentary
Changes wrought in the Divine Decree by Allāh in response to man's supplication or His granting him extension in the life-span — all this is predetermined. But since we have no knowledge of it, from our perspective it is a change and an extension but not so in Allāh's knowledge and decree.
