The Meaning of "It Is Written for Him... or It Is Erased from Him" in the Hadith
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Question:
In the hadith of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas: "Is it that one of you is unable to earn a thousand good deeds every day? So a questioner from among his companions asked him: How can one of us earn a thousand good deeds?Sahih Muslim 2698. Is the "or" here for variation or for doubt on the part of the narrator?
Answer:
It is possible that it is doubt, or that he receives both this and that, either a hundred good deeds or a hundred bad deeds are erased from him, and the known ruling, as mentioned previously, is that one good deed is rewarded with ten times its like.
In the hadith of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas: "Is it that one of you is unable to earn a thousand good deeds every day? So a questioner from among his companions asked him: How can one of us earn a thousand good deeds?
one thousand virtues are recorded (to your credit) and one thousand vices are blotted out.
فيكتب له ألف حسنة أو يحط عنه ألف خطيئةOr
أوAnswer:
It is possible that it is doubt, or that he receives both this and that, either a hundred good deeds or a hundred bad deeds are erased from him, and the known ruling, as mentioned previously, is that one good deed is rewarded with ten times its like.
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