Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Your Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was given knowledge of everything except five things (the ruling is different). The statement of Allah Almighty is: «إن الله عنده علم الساعة» "Indeed, the knowledge of the Hour is only with Allah." This is until the end of the Surah.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sayyidah Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her) made a supplication: "O Allah! Grant my husband, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), my father Abu Sufyan, and my brother Mu'awiyah a long life." So the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You have supplicated to Allah regarding something whose time is fixed, whose final limit is determined, and whose sustenance is apportioned. Nothing can come before its appointed time, nor can anything be delayed from it. When that time ends. If you had supplicated to Allah that He save you from the punishment of Hell and the punishment of the grave, that would have been better." (The narrator is in doubt, perhaps these are the words) "It would have been more virtuous." The narrator states: The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about monkeys and pigs: What is your opinion, are they from the descendants of those who were transformed? Or are they something from before that? The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No! They are something from before that, because whenever Allah destroys a people, their progeny and their end is in the form of those who existed before them."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sayyidah Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her) made a supplication: "O Allah! Grant my husband, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), my father Abu Sufyan, and my brother Mu'awiyah a long life." So the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You have supplicated to Allah regarding something whose time is fixed, whose final limit is determined, and whose sustenance is apportioned. Nothing can come before its appointed time, nor can anything be delayed from it. When that time ends. If you had supplicated to Allah that He save you from the punishment of Hell and the punishment of the grave, that would have been better." (The narrator is in doubt, perhaps these are the words) "It would have been more virtuous." The narrator states: The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about monkeys and pigs: What is your opinion, are they from the descendants of those who were transformed? Or are they something from before that? The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No! They are something from before that, because whenever Allah destroys a people, their progeny and their end is in the form of those who existed before them."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) told us this hadith. He (peace be upon him) is truthful and has been affirmed. He (peace be upon him) said:“The seed of every person is kept in his mother’s womb for forty days, then it remains as a clot of blood for the same period, then it remains as a lump of flesh for the same period. Then Allah sends an angel to it with four things and commands him to write down its deeds, its lifespan, its provision, and whether it will be wretched or blessed. Then the angel breathes the soul into it.”

Then the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“By the One in Whose hand is my soul, a man may do the deeds of the people of Hell until there is only a handspan between him and Hell, then what has been written overtakes him, and he does the deeds of the people of Paradise and enters it. And a man may do the deeds of the people of Paradise until there is only a handspan between him and Paradise, then what has been written overtakes him, and he does the deeds of the people of Hell and enters it.”

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: No person should ever assign any portion (of his prayer) to Satan. He should not think that it is obligatory upon him that (after finishing the prayer) he can only get up from the right side, because I have seen the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) get up from the left side many times.