890 - Ahmad ibn Mansur al-Ramadi informed us, saying: Muhammad ibn 'Ubayd al-Tanafisi narrated to us, saying: al-A'mash narrated to us, from Zayd ibn Wahb, who said: 'Abd Allah said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, narrated to us, and he is the Truthful, the Believed: "The creation of one of you is brought together in his mother's womb for forty days, then he is a clot for a similar period, then he is a lump of flesh for a similar period. Then Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, sends to him an angel with four words; he says: 'Write his deeds and his term,' and he says: 'Write whether he is miserable or happy.' Then he breathes the spirit into him. By Him in Whose hand is my soul, a man may perform the deeds of the people of the Fire until there is only a cubit between him and it, then the decree precedes him, and he performs the deeds of the people of Paradise and enters it. And a man may perform the deeds of the people of Paradise until there is only a cubit between him and it, then the decree precedes him, and he concludes with the deeds of the people of the Fire and enters it."