Hadith on Divine Preordainment

Narrated `Abdullah: Allah's Apostle, the truthful and truly-inspired, said, Each one of you collected in the womb of his mother for forty days, and then turns into a clot for an equal period (of forty days) and turns into a piece of flesh for a..

Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said, Allah puts an angel in charge of the uterus and the angel says, 'O Lord, (it is) semen! O Lord, (it is now ) a clot! O Lord, (it is now) a piece of flesh.' And then, if Allah wishes to complete its..

Narrated `Imran bin Husain: A man said, O Allah's Apostle! Can the people of Paradise be known (differentiated) from the people of the Fire; The Prophet replied, Yes. The man said, Why do people (try to) do (good) deeds? The Prophet said,..

Narrated Ibn `Abbas: The Prophet ; was asked about the offspring of the pagans. He said, Allah knows what they would have done (were they to live). ..

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle was asked about the offspring of the pagans. He said, Allah knows what they would have done (were they to live). ..

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, No child is born but has the Islamic Faith, but its parents turn it into a Jew or a Christian. It is as you help the animals give birth. Do you find among their offspring a mutilated one before you..

The people said, O Allah's Apostle! What do you think about those (of them) who die young? The Prophet said, Allah knows what they would have done (were they to live). ..

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, No woman should ask for the divorce of her sister (Muslim) so as to take her place, but she should marry the man (without compelling him to divorce his other wife), for she will have nothing but what..

Narrated Usama: Once while I was with the Prophet and Sa`d, Ubai bin Ka`b and Mu`adh were also sitting with him, there came to him a messenger from one of his daughters, telling him that her child was on the verge of death. The Prophet told the..

Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri: That while he was sitting with the Prophet a man from the Ansar came and said, O Allah's Apostle! We get slave girls from the war captives and we love property; what do you think about coitus interruptus? Allah's..

Narrated Hudhaifa: The Prophet once delivered a speech in front of us wherein he left nothing but mentioned (about) everything that would happen till the Hour. Some of us stored that our minds and some forgot it. (After that speech) I used to see..

Narrated `Ali: While we were sitting with the Prophet who had a stick with which he was scraping the earth, he lowered his head and said, There is none of you but has his place assigned either in the Fire or in Paradise. Thereupon a man from..

Narrated Abu Huraira: We witnessed along with Allah's Apostle the Khaibar (campaign). Allah's Apostle told his companions about a man who claimed to be a Muslim, This man is from the people of the Fire. When the battle started, the man fought..

Narrated Sahl bin Sa`d: There was a man who fought most bravely of all the Muslims on behalf of the Muslims in a battle (Ghazwa) in the company of the Prophet. The Prophet looked at him and said. If anyone would like to see a man from the people..

Narrated Ibn `Umar: The Prophet forbade vowing and said, In fact, vowing does not prevent anything, but it makes a miser to spend his property. ..

Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said (that Allah said), Vowing does not bring to the son of Adam anything I have not already written in his fate, but vowing is imposed on him by way of fore ordainment. Through vowing I make a miser spend of his..

Narrated Abu Musa: While we were with Allah's Apostle in a holy battle, we never went up a hill or reached its peak or went down a valley but raised our voices with Takbir. Allah's Apostle came close to us and said, O people! Don't exert..

Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri: That the Prophet said, No Caliph is appointed but has two groups of advisors: One group advises him to do good and urges him to adopt it, and the other group advises him to do bad and urges him to adopt it; and the..

Narrated Ibn `Abbas: I did not see anything so resembling minor sins as what Abu Huraira said from the Prophet, who said, Allah has written for the son of Adam his inevitable share of adultery whether he is aware of it or not: The adultery of the..

Narrated Ibn `Abbas: (regarding the Verse) And We granted the vision (Ascension to the heavens Miraj ) which We showed you (O Muhammad as an actual eye witness) but as a trial for mankind.' (17.60): Allah's Apostle actually saw with his own..