It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) concerning the saying of Allah Almighty: "Then He decreed a term, and a specified term is with Him" [Surah al-An'am: 2] that he said: These are two terms: one is the term of the life of this world, and the other is the specified term of the Hereafter which is with Allah and which no one knows except Allah. And concerning the saying of Allah: "And even if We had sent down to you a writing on parchment and they touched it with their hands" [Surah al-An'am: 7] he said: (That is,) even if they touched it and saw it with their own eyes, they still would not believe. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.