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MERIT OF EXCELLING IN GOOD DEEDS

958

“We were in the graveyard of Baqi'ah attending a funeral when the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, came and sat down so we gathered round him. He had a pointed stick in his hand. He bent down and began to scrape the ground with his stick and said, ‘Everyone of you has his place allotted either in the Fire or in Paradise.’ The Companions asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, shouldn't we rely upon what is written in our record?’ He answered, ‘Keep on working, because everyone is guided to that for which he was created.’"

Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to Ali may Allah honor his face - who related that the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, said this.