And in the Musnad and the Sunan collections it is narrated from Ibn ad-Dailamī who said: “I came to Ubayy ibn Kaʿb and said, ‘Something about the divine decree (qadar) is troubling my heart; so relate something to me—perhaps Allah will remove it from my chest.’ He replied, ‘Even if you were to spend in charity an amount of gold equal to Mount Uhud, Allah would not accept it from you until you believe in the decree and know with certainty that whatever has befallen you could never have missed you, and whatever has missed you could never have befallen you. If you were to die holding any other belief, you would be one of the people of the Fire.’ I then went to ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd, Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, and Zayd ibn Thābit, and every one of them related to me the same words from the Prophet ﷺ.” 1 This is an authentic report; al-Ḥākim recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ.

Biographical notes
• Ibn ad-Dailamī is ʿAbd Allah ibn Fīrūz ad-Dailamī, a trustworthy scholar from the senior generation of the Successors; his father Fīrūz killed the impostor Aswad al-ʿAnsī.
• “In the Musnad and the Sunan” refers to the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad and the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Mājah.
• “Something about the decree is troubling me” indicates a doubt and inner turmoil that might lead to denial.
• “Even if you were to spend …” is illustrative, not a literal limit.
• “Until you believe in the decree” means acknowledging that all matters unfold by Allah’s decision and predestination.
• “Were you to die holding any other belief” refers to dying without faith in the divine decree.