his History, with his chain of transmission, a report narrated to us on the authority of Ibn Mas‘ūd, which includes: “For each of your days, in His reckoning, is twelve hours long. Your deeds of yesterday are presented to Him at the beginning of today, and He examines them for three hours. He sees among them things He dislikes, and this angers Him. The first to know of His anger are those who bear the Throne: they find Him weighing heavily upon them, whereupon He is glorified by those who