question #1 Sahih Muslim 123a, Book 1, Hadith 230 : What is the significance of past good deeds performed before accepting Islam in the eyes of Allah?

Do you think that there is any thing for me (of he reward with the Lord) for the deed of religious purification that I did in the state of ignorance? Upon this he (the Messenger of Allah) said to him: You accepted Islam with all the previous virtues that you practised.