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Said ‘Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As, ‘The Emissary of God (may God bless him and grant him peace) once said, “On the day of Arising, God shall choose a man from my nation out of the assembly of all creatures. Ninety-nine books shall be spread out before him, each one of which stretches as far as the eye can see. Then He shall ask him, ‘Do you deny any of this? Have my Recording Angels dealt you any injustice?’ ‘No, my Lord,’ he shall reply. ‘But yes,’ says He, ‘you have one good action in My sight, and today there shall be no injustice against you.’ And He brings out a card upon which is written, ‘I bear witness that there is no deity save God, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Emissary of God.’ ‘O my Lord!’ he says, ‘What is that card beside all these books?’ ‘You shall not be wronged,’ says He. And the books were placed in one scale and the card in the other, and the books rise up while the card descends, for there is nothing which can outweigh God’s name.’ ” – Hadith al-Bitaqa, the ‘Hadith of the Card’. As related in Al-Ghazali’s ‘Ihya ulum al-din’

Is this an authentic hadith?