Messenger of Allah, tell us about what we do. Is it something newly initiated or already begun, or has it already been decreed and finished?He replied, "It has already been decreed and finished, son of Khattab. Everyone is made easy for what he was created for. As for the one who is among the people of happiness, he will work for happiness, and as for the one who is among the people of misery, he will work for misery."
حدثنا بندار حدثنا عبد الرحمن بن مهدي حدثنا شعبة عن عاصم بن عبيد الله قال سمعت سالم بن عبد الله يحدث عن أبيه قال
يا رسول الله أرأيت ما نعمل فيه أمر مبتدع أو مبتدأ أو فيما قد فرغ منه فقال فيما قد فرغ منه يا ابن الخطاب وكل ميسر أما من كان من أهل السعادة فإنه يعمل للسعادة وأما من كان من أهل الشقاء فإنه يعمل للشقاء
[Hasan] Ahmad (5/2, hadith: 5139) also reported it from Abdul-Rahman bin Mahdi, but its chain is daif. The hadith has corroborating witnesses in Ibn Hibban (hadith: 1807), Bazzar (Kashf Astar, 3/18, 19, hadith: 2137), Ibn Abu Asim (Sunnah, hadith: 165), and Ahmad (4/67, with a hasan chain of transmission), among others.On this subject there are also narrations from Ali [to come, hadith: 2136], Huzaifa bin Usayd [Muslim, hadith: 2644], Huzaifa bin Yaman [Abu Dawud, hadith: 4692], Anas [Bukhari, hadith: 398, and Muslim, hadith: 2646], and Imran bin Husayn [Bukhari, hadith: 6596, 7551, and Muslim, hadith: 2649].