The Hands of Allah ta’ala

Allah ﷻ says:

“O Iblees, what prevented you from prostrating to that which I created with My hands? Were you arrogant [then], or were you [already] among the haughty?” (Sad 38:75)

Allah ﷻ says:

They have not appraised Allah with true appraisal, while the earth entirely will be [within] His grip on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His right hand. Exalted is He and high above what they associate with Him. (az Zumar 39:67)

Narrated Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him): Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:

When Allah created Adam and breathed into him, he sneezed. He said: Praise be to Allah, by His permission. At this, his Lord said to him: “Your Lord has bestowed mercy on you. O Adam! Go to those angels sitting there and greet them.” So Adam said: As salamu ‘alaykum (peace be upon you). They responded to him. Then he came back to his Lord. Allah said: “It will be your greeting and the greeting of your offspring.”

Allah said, having made His Hands closed: “Select any one of them.” Adam said: “I select the right hand and both the hands of my Lord are right and blessed.” Then Allah spread it. There was Adam and his generation. Adam asked: “O Lord! Who are these people?” Allah said: “They are your children.” Every human being’s life is written between his eyes. Among them was a man with the brightest face. For him was written only forty years of age. Adam said: “O Lord! Who is this fellow?” Allah said: “This is your son Dawood [David]. His life span is written forty years.” Adam said: “O Lord! Increase his age.” Allah said: “This is what I have written down for him.” He said: “Then I give him sixty years of my age.” Allah said: “This is between you and him.” (This hadith is sound and reported by Ibn Abi Asim, Ibn Hibbaan and Hakim in his mustadrak)

Abu Kurayb told us that Yahya bin Isa said that Al-A’mash said that Habib bin Abi Thabit said that Said bin Jubayr said Ibn Abbas said: about the words of Allah “And when thy Lord took from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed, and made them testify against themselves, ‘Am I not your Lord?’ They said, ‘Yes, we testify’– lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘we were heedless of this,’. (Al-A’raf: 172): “When he had created Adam, he took his offspring from his back like seed, and took two handsfull and said to those in his right hand: “Enter paradise with peace” and to the rest he said: “Enter the hell and I do not care”. (Tafsir Al-Tabari 13/227 No.: 15344)

Musa alayhi salam said to Adam alayhi salam:

“Allah created you with His Hand and the angels prostrated to you.” (Muslim, #2652)

Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:

There was argument between Adam and Moses. Moses said to Adam: You are our father. You did us harm and caused us to get out of Paradise. Adam said to him: You are Moses. Allah selected you (for direct conversation with you) and wrote with His own Hand the Book (Torah) for you. Despite this you blame me for an act which Allah had ordained for me forty years before He created me. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said: This is how Adam came the better of Moses and Adam came the better of Moses. [Sahih Muslim #2652]

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Allah said: “The son of Adam hurts Me by abusing Time, for I am Time; in My Hands are all things and I cause the revolution of night and day.’ ” [Sahih al-Bukhari #7491]

Narrated ‘Abu Huraira:

I heard Allah’s Messenger (pbuh) saying, “Allah will hold the whole earth, and roll all the heavens up in His Right Hand, and then He will say, ‘I am the King; where are the kings of the earth?”‘ (Sahih al-Bukhari 4860)