Hadith 108

Narrated by Ibn al-Dailami: I went to Ubayy ibn Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "Something related to predestination has occurred in my heart, so tell me something that might remove it from my heart." He said: "If Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, were to punish the inhabitants of His heavens and the inhabitants of His earth, He would punish them, and He would not wrong them. And if He had mercy on them, His mercy would be better for them than their deeds. If you were to spend a mountain of gold in the way of Allah, He would not accept it from you until you believe in predestination and know that whatever befalls you could not have missed you, and whatever missed you could not have befallen you. If you were to die without this belief, you would enter Hell." I then went to Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said something similar. Then I went to Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said something similar. Then I went to Zayd ibn Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him), and he narrated to me from the Prophet (peace be upon him) something similar.