Hadeeth 4 (From Imam Nawwi 40 hadith narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
On the authority of Abdullah ibn Masood (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and he is the truthful, the believed, narrated to us,
“Verily the creation of each one of you is brought
together in his mother’s womb for forty days in the form of a nutfah (a drop),
then he becomes an alaqah (clot of blood) for a like period,
then a mudghah (morsel of flesh) for a like period,
then there is sent to him the angel who blows his soul into him and
who is commanded with four matters: to write down his rizq (sustenance), his life span, his actions, and whether he will be happy or unhappy (i.e., whether or not he will enter
Paradise).
By the One, other than Whom there is no deity, verily one of you performs the actions
of the people of Paradise until there is but an arms length between him and it, and that
which has been written overtakes him, and so he acts with the actions of the people of
the Hellfire and thus enters it; and verily one of you performs the actions of the people
of the Hellfire, until there is but an arms length between him and it, and that which has
been written overtakes him and so he acts with the actions of the people of Paradise
and thus he enters it.”
It was narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
