- "Indeed, Allāh took a handful and said: 'In Paradise by My mercy,' and took another handful and said: 'In the Fire, and I do not mind.'" Narrated by Abū Yaʿlá in "Musnad" (171/2), al-ʿUqaylī in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" (p. 93), Ibn ʿAdī in "al-Kāmil" (66/2), and al-Dūlābī in "al-Asmāʾ wa-al-Kuná" (2/

From the ḥadīth of al-Ḥakam ibn Sinān, from Thābit, from Anas, attributed to the Prophet. Ibn ʿAdī said: "Some of what al-Ḥakam ibn Sinān narrates is not corroborated by others." Al-ʿUqaylī said something similar. I said: He has been corroborated, so the ḥadīth is authentic, and al-ʿUqaylī indicated this by saying: "There are ḥadīths about the two handfuls with sound isnāds." I said: And here we are presenting them, if Allāh wills. 48 - "Indeed, Allāh created Adam, then took the creation from his back and said: 'These to Paradise, and I do not mind, and these to the Fire, and I do not mind.' A person said: 'O Messenger of Allāh, upon what should we act?' He said: 'Upon the decrees of destiny.'" Narrated by Aḥmad (4/186), Ibn Saʿd in "al-Ṭabaqāt" (1/30, 7/417), Ibn Ḥibbān in "Ṣaḥīḥ" (1806), al-Ḥākim (1/31), and al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī in (the ninety-third of "Takhrīj" 41/2) from the path of Aḥmad from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Qatādah al-Sulamī,