then did he approve of it until he met me? He said: Yes, but I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: (He mentioned it, and at the end he said:) So I do not know in which of the two handfuls I am." And its isnād is authentic. In the chapter, there are also reports from Abū Mūsá and Abū Saʿīd and others, which can be reviewed by whoever wishes in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (6/186-187). The ḥadīth of Abū Mūsá is in "Ḥadīth Luwīn" (26/1) and it includes Rūḥ ibn al-Musayyib, who is acceptable as Ibn Maʿīn said. Know that the motivation for extracting this ḥadīth and mentioning its paths is twofold: First, one of the scholars, Shaykh Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Fatnī al-Hindī, included it in his book "Tadhkirat al-Mawḍūʿāt" (p. 12) and said about it: "Its isnād is disturbed"! I do not know the reason for this, as the ḥadīth is authentic from various paths as you have seen, and there is no disturbance in it, unless he confused it with another disturbed ḥadīth or meant another path of its paths, and then did not follow these authentic paths. And Allāh knows best. Second, many people mistakenly believe that these ḥadīths—and many similar ones—indicate that a person is compelled in their voluntary actions, as long as it was decreed for them long ago, before they were created, whether they are destined for Paradise or Hell. Others might mistakenly think that the matter is chaotic or a matter of luck, so whoever falls into the right handful is among the fortunate, and whoever is in the other handful is among the wretched. It is necessary for all these people to know that Allāh (there is nothing like unto Him) neither in His essence nor..