Hadiths on Levels of Divine Decree and Fate

This section gathers ten authentic hadiths on the levels of Divine Decree and Fate: the writing of the decrees by the Pen, each person's place inscribed in Paradise or Hell, the embryo's forty days in its mother's womb, and the destinies written fifty thousand years before the creation of the heavens and the earth. Also included is the debate of Adam and Moses, closed by this statement: "the (ink of) the pen has dried upon the knowledge of Allah".