[The Book of Resurrection] - Libri i Ringjalljes - [كِتَابُ الْبَعْثِ]

On the authority of Abu al-Za’ra, who said: They mentioned the Dajjal in the presence of Abdullah—meaning Ibn Mas’ud—and he said: The people will split into three groups: a group that follows him, a group that stays in the land of their fathers where the wormwood grows, and a group that takes the bank of this Euphrates. He will fight them and they will fight him until the believers gather in the west of ash-Sham. They will then send a vanguard toward him, among whom is a rider on a sorrel or a piebald horse; they will be killed and none of them will return to them with anything.

Abdullah said: And they claim that the Messiah will descend and kill him. He [the narrator] said: And I did not hear him relate a narration from the People of the Book other than this one. Then Gog and Magog will emerge, and they will surge through the earth and spread corruption therein. Then Abdullah recited: "Until, when [the dam of] Gog and Magog has been opened and they, from every elevation, descend." [Al-Anbiya: 96]. Then Allah will send upon them a creature like this larva (al-naghafah), which will enter their ears and nostrils; thus they will die. The earth will then stink because of them, so the people of the earth will cry out to Allah. Allah will then send water that will purify the earth from them. Then Allah will send a wind containing a bitter cold, which will not leave a single believer on the face of the earth without their soul being taken by that wind. Then the Hour will be established upon the worst of people.

Then an angel will stand with the Trumpet between the heaven and the earth and blow into it; no creature of Allah's creation will remain except that it dies, save those whom your Lord wills. Then, between the two blasts, there will be whatever Allah wills there to be. There is nothing of the children of Adam that was created except that something of it remains in the earth. Then Allah will send water from beneath the Throne, like the semen of men, and their bodies and flesh will grow from that water just as the earth grows from irrigation. Then Abdullah recited: "And it is Allah who sends the winds, and they stir the clouds, and We drive them to a dead land and give life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness. Thus is the resurrection." [Fatir: 9].

Then an angel will stand with the Trumpet between the heaven and the earth and blow into it; every soul will depart to its body and enter it. They will stand and come to life as one man, standing before the Lord of the worlds. Then Allah—Exalted is His mention—will manifest Himself to the creation and meet them. There will be no one from the creation who used to worship anything besides Allah except that it will be raised for him and he will follow it. He will meet the Jews and say: "What did you used to worship?" They will say: "Uzayr." He will say: "Would water please you?" They will say: "Yes." Then He will show them Hell in the form of a mirage. Then Abdullah recited: "And We shall present Hell that Day to the disbelievers, a [plain] presentation." [Al-Kahf: 100]. Then He will meet the Christians and say: "What did you used to worship?" They said: "The Messiah." He said: "Would a drink please you?" They said: "Yes." Then He will show them Hell like a drink. The same will be done for whoever used to worship anything besides Allah. Then Abdullah recited: "And stop them; indeed, they are to be questioned." [As-Saffat: 24].

Until the Muslims pass, and He meets them and says: "Who do you worship?" They will say: "We worship Allah and do not associate anything with Him." He will rebuke them once or twice: "Who do you worship?" They will say: "Exalted is Allah! When He reveals Himself to us, we shall recognize Him." At that moment, the Shin will be uncovered, and every believer will fall prostrate, while the hypocrites will remain with their backs rigid like a single slab, as if they have skewers in them. They will say: "Our Lord!" and He will say: "You were invited to prostration while you were sound." Then He will command that the Bridge (Sirat) be set over Hell. People will pass according to their deeds in groups: the first of them like a flash of lightning, then like the passing of the wind, then like the flight of birds, then like the fastest of beasts. He said: And so on, until a man comes running, then a man comes walking, until the last of them is a man dragging himself on his belly. He will say: "O Lord, You have slowed me down." He will say: "It was your deeds that slowed you down."

Then Allah—Exalted is His mention—will permit intercession. The first intercessor on the Day of Resurrection will be Gabriel, then Abraham, then Moses—or he said: Jesus. Salama said: Then your Prophet (pbuh) will stand as an intercessor; no one after him will intercede in what he intercedes for, and that is the Praiseworthy Station (Al-Maqam al-Mahmud) which Allah promised him: "It may be that your Lord will raise you to a praised station." [Al-Isra: 79]. There is no soul but that it will look at a house in Paradise and a house in Hell. It will be said: "If only you had acted [righteously]," and that is the Day of Regret. He said: The people of the Fire will see the house in Paradise and it will be said: "If only you had acted [righteously]," and the people of Paradise will see the house in the Fire and it will be said: "Were it not that Allah had bestowed His favor upon you."

Then the angels, the prophets, the martyrs, the righteous, and the believers will intercede, and Allah will accept their intercession. Then He will say: "I am the Most Merciful of those who show mercy," and He will bring out of the Fire more than those brought out by all the creation combined through the mercy of Allah, until He leaves no one in it who has any good. Then Abdullah recited: "What led you into Saqar?" [Al-Muddathir: 42], and he counted with his hand: "They said, 'We were not of those who prayed, nor did we used to feed the poor. And we used to indulge in vain talk with the talkers, and we used to deny the Day of Recompense, until there came to us the certainty.'" [Al-Muddathir: 43-47], and he counted four. Sufyan gestured with his hand and counted four, counting four fingers, and Abu Nu’aym described it. Abdullah said: "Do you see among these people any in whom there is any good?"

When Allah wills that no one else be brought out of it, He will change their faces and their colors. A man from among the believers will come to intercede, and it will be said to him: "Whoever recognizes someone, let him bring him out." He will come to a man and look but not recognize anyone. A man will say to another man: "O so-and-so, I am so-and-so." He will reply: "I do not recognize you." They will say: "Our Lord, bring us out of it; then if we should return [to evil], we will indeed be wrongdoers." He [Allah] will say: "Remain despised therein and do not speak to Me." [Al-Mu’minun: 107-108]. When He says that, it will be closed upon them, and no human being shall ever come out from it.

18306 - On the authority of Abu Murayyah, from the Prophet (pbuh), or from 'Abdullah bin 'Amr, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "The two blowers are in the second heaven; the head of one of them is in the West, and his feet are in the East." Or he said: "The head of one of them is in the West, and his feet are in the East; they are waiting for when they will be commanded to blow into the Trumpet, and then they will blow."

18307 - And from Zayd ibn Arqam, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "How can I be at ease when the possessor of the Horn has taken the Horn into his mouth, inclined his forehead, and listened intently for when he will be commanded?" He said: The companions of the Prophet (pbuh) heard this and it was distressing to them, so the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Say: Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs."

18308 - And from Ibn 'Abbas regarding the statement of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic: "For when the Trumpet is sounded" [Al-Muddaththir: 8], he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "How can I be at ease when the possessor of the Horn has taken the Horn into his mouth and inclined his forehead, waiting for when he will be commanded so that he may blow?" The companions of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) asked: "What should we say?" He said: "Say: 'Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs; upon Allah we have placed our trust.'"

18309 - And on the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri: that the Prophet (pbuh) said: "There is no morning except that two angels call out: 'Glory be to the Sovereign, the Most Holy.' And two angels call out: 'O Allah, give the spender a replacement, and give the withholder ruin.' And two angels are entrusted with the Trumpet, waiting for when they will be commanded so they may blow. And two angels call out: 'O seeker of good, come forward, and O seeker of evil, desist.' And two angels call out: 'Woe to men from women, and woe to women from men.'" I said: Ibn Majah narrated a portion of it.

18310 - And from Abdullah ibn al-Harith, who said: "I was with Aisha while Ka'b al-Ahbar was with her. He mentioned Israfil, and Aisha said: 'O Ka'b, tell me about Israfil.' Ka'b replied: 'You possess the knowledge.' She said: 'Yes.' She then said: 'So, tell me.' He said: 'He has four wings: two wings in the air, one wing he has wrapped himself in, and one wing upon his shoulder. The Pen is upon his ear; so when revelation descends, the Pen writes, then the angels study it. The Angel of the Trumpet is kneeling on one of his knees and has raised the other, having placed the Trumpet in his mouth with his back bent, and he has been commanded that when he sees Israfil fold his wing, he should blow into the Trumpet.' Aisha said: 'This is exactly how I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say.'"

18311 - On the authority of Uqbah bin Amir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Before the Hour, a black cloud will appear to you from the direction of the West like a shield. It will continue to rise in the sky and spread until it fills the sky. Then a caller will cry out: 'O people, {The command of Allah has come, so do not be impatient for it} [An-Nahl: 1].'" The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, indeed two men will spread out a garment but they will not fold it; a man will plaster his watering basin but he will never water from it; and a man will milk his she-camel but he will never drink it."

18312 - And on the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The Hour will certainly be established while two men have their garment spread between them, yet they will not have folded it nor completed its sale; and the Hour will certainly be established while a man has raised his morsel to his mouth but does not taste it; and the Hour will certainly be established while a man is plastering his watering trough but does not water from it."

18313 - And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "It shall certainly buck with you as a young camel bucks." Meaning the earth.

And on the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), that he said: "The earth consumes all of the human being except for the tailbone." It was asked: "And what is it like, O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "It is like a mustard seed; from it you shall be grown."

18315 - And on the authority of Ibn 'Umar, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "The people of Lot did not perish except during the Adhan (call to prayer), and the Hour will not be established except during the Adhan."

18316 - On the authority of Umar ibn al-Khattab, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "Verily, the Muslims will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection according to their intentions."

18317 - And on the authority of Jabir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Every soul will be resurrected according to its inclination; so whoever inclines toward disbelief, he will be with the disbelievers, and his deeds will not benefit him at all."

On the authority of Abdullah—meaning Ibn Mas'ud—who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, you will be gathered barefoot, naked, and uncircumcised."

18319 - And on the authority of Sahl ibn Sa'd, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "People will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection walking, barefoot, and uncircumcised." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah, will the men look at the women?" He replied: "Every person among them that day will have enough concern of his own to make him indifferent to others."

18320 - And it is narrated from Umm Salama, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "The people will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection barefoot and naked." So Umm Salama said: "O Messenger of Allah, how then will some of us look at others?" He replied: "The people will be preoccupied." I asked: "What will preoccupy them?" He said: "The unfolding of the scrolls [of deeds], which contain the weights of atoms and the weights of mustard seeds."

18321 - And on the authority of Al-Hasan bin Ali, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "People will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection barefoot and naked." A woman said: "O Messenger of Allah, how will we look at one another?" He said: "Indeed, the gazes shall be fixed [staring]." Then he raised his gaze toward the sky, and she said: "O Messenger of Allah, supplicate to Allah to cover my nakedness." He said: "O Allah, cover her nakedness."

18322 - And on the authority of Sawdah bint Zam'ah, she said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "People will be resurrected barefoot, naked, and uncircumcised; the sweat will have bridled them and reached their earlobes." So I said: "Will we look at one another?" He said: "People will be too preoccupied; for every person among them that day will be a matter that occupies him."

18323 - And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "People will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection upon mounts to reach the Place of Gathering. Salih will be resurrected on his she-camel, and my sons Al-Hasan and Al-Husayn will be resurrected on my she-camel, Al-Adhba'. I will be resurrected on Al-Buraq, whose stride is at the furthest reach of its vision. Bilal will be resurrected on a she-camel from the she-camels of Paradise; he will proclaim the Adhan purely and the testimony of faith truthfully. Until when he says, 'I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,' the believers from the first and the last generations will bear witness for him; it will be accepted from those from whom it is accepted and rejected from those from whom it is rejected."

And on the authority of Ibn ‘Umar, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "There is no desolation for the people of 'There is no god but Allah' at death, nor in the graves, nor at the Resurrection. It is as if I am looking at them at the Shout, shaking the dust from their heads, saying: 'Praise be to Allah, who has removed from us sorrow.'"

18325 - And from Sulaym bin 'Amir al-Kala'i, who said: We said to al-Miqdam bin Ma'di Karib al-Kindi: "O Abu Karimah, indeed the people claim that you did not see the Messenger of Allah (pbuh)." He replied: "On the contrary, by Allah, I certainly saw him, and he indeed took hold of this earlobe of mine while I was walking with an uncle of mine, then he said to my uncle: 'Do you think he will remember it?'" We said: "O Abu Karimah, narrate to us what you heard from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh)." He said: "I heard him saying: 'Everyone between the miscarried fetus and the decrepit old man will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection in the form of Adam, with the heart of Ayyub, and the beauty of Yusuf, hairless and with kohl-rimmed eyes.'" We said: "O Messenger of Allah, then what about the disbeliever?" He said: "He will be made thick for the Fire until the thickness of his skin is forty cubits, and the molar tooth among his teeth will be like Mount Uhud."

18326 - And on the authority of Al-Miqdam bin al-Aswad, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "People will be gathered, from the miscarried fetus to the decrepit old man, as thirty-three-year-olds, in the stature of Adam, the beauty of Joseph, and the heart of Job, with kohl-lined eyes and youthful locks of hair."

18327 - And on the authority of Jabir, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will resurrect people in the form of small ants, and people will tread upon them with their feet. It will be asked: 'Who are these in the form of small ants?' and it will be answered: 'These are the arrogant ones in the worldly life.'"

18328 - And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The arrogant will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection in the form of small ants."

18329 - On the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "If a person knew what awaited him after death, he would not eat a meal nor drink a drink except while weeping and beating his chest."

18330 - And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Death, in comparison to what follows it, is naught but like the butting of a goat."

18331 - And from 'Abd al-'Aziz al-'Attar, from Anas ibn Malik—I do not know it except that he attributed it to the Prophet (pbuh)—who said: "The son of Adam has not encountered anything since Allah—the Mighty and Majestic—created him more severe upon him than death, then death is easier than what follows it; and indeed they shall encounter from the horror of that Day such severity that sweat will bridle them, to the extent that if ships were set to sail in it, they would sail."

18332 - On the authority of Jabir ibn Abdillah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Do not wish for death; for indeed, the terror of the Place of Ascent is severe." Then he mentioned the hadith, and it has already been cited in the Book of Repentance regarding the length of life.

18333 - And on the authority of Anas bin Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "People will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection while the sky drizzles upon them."

18334 - And on the authority of Abu Umamah al-Bahili: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The sun will draw near on the Day of Resurrection to the distance of a mile, and its heat will be increased by such and such. The skulls will boil from it just as pots boil. They will sweat therein according to their sins; among them are those for whom it reaches their ankles, among them are those for whom it reaches their shins, among them are those for whom it reaches their waist, and among them are those whom the sweat bridles."

18335 - And from 'Uqbah ibn 'Amir, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "The sun will draw near to the earth and the people will sweat. Among the people are those whose sweat will reach their heels, among them are those for whom it will reach to the middle of the shin, among them are those for whom it will reach to their knees, among them are those for whom it will reach to the buttocks, among them are those for whom it will reach the waist, among them are those for whom it will reach their shoulders, among them are those for whom it will reach their neck, and among them are those for whom it will reach the middle of their mouth - and he gestured with his hand as if bridling his mouth; I saw the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) gesturing like this - and among them are those who will be completely covered by their sweat - and he struck with his hand and gestured."

18336 - And on the authority of Sa'id bin 'Umayr al-Ansari, who said: I sat with Abdullah bin Umar and Abu Sa'id, and one of them said to his companion: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) mention that: 'Sweat will reach on the Day of Resurrection...'" One of them said: "To his earlobes," while the other said: "It will bridle him." Ibn Umar then lowered [his hand to demonstrate], and Abu 'Asim pointed with his two fingers from his earlobe to his mouth, saying: "I do not see that except as being equal." I said: The Hadith of Ibn Umar is in the Sahih.

18337 - And on the authority of Al-Miqdam: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The sun will be brought near on the Day of Resurrection until it is at a distance of a mile from the people, and its heat will be increased so that it scorches them. They will be in sweat according to their deeds; among them are those whom the sweat will reach to their ankles, among them are those whom it will reach to their knees, among them are those whom it will reach to their waist, and among them are those whom it will bridle." And I saw the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) pointing with his hand to his mouth.

18338 - And from Muhammad bin Furat, who said: "Two men brought a dispute before Muharib. He said: A man testified against one of them, so the one testified against said: 'By Allah, as far as I know, he is a man of truth, and if you were to ask about him, he would surely be praised or commended; yet he has testified falsely against me, and I do not know what emboldened him to do that?' So Muharib bin Dithar said to him: 'O fellow, fear Allah, for indeed I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: "The feet of the false witness shall not move until the Fire becomes mandatory for him; and indeed the birds on the day they beat their wings and cast out what is in their bellies have no grievance against them."' And the Prophet (pbuh) was admonishing a man."

18339 - And from Abdullah – meaning Ibn Mas'ud – who said: "The earth will be entirely fire on the Day of Resurrection, and Paradise will be behind it, with its full-breasted maidens and its cups. By Him in Whose Hand is the soul of Abdullah, a man will indeed overflow with sweat until his stature sinks into the earth, then it rises until it reaches his nose, yet the Reckoning has not yet touched him." They said: "Why is that, O Abu Abd al-Rahman?" He said: "From what the people see of those being cast [into the Fire]."

18340 - On the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), who said: "For the disbeliever on the Day of Resurrection, a period the length of fifty thousand years will be set, just as he did not work [righteously] in the world. And indeed, the disbeliever will see Hell and think that it is about to overtake him from a distance of forty years' journey."

And on the authority of Abdullah—meaning Ibn Mas'ud—from the Prophet (pbuh), he said: "Indeed, a man will be bridled by sweat on the Day of Resurrection, so he will say: O Lord, grant me relief, even if it be to the Fire."

18342 - And in a mauquf narration: "Indeed, the disbeliever."

18343 - And in a narration in both of them, he (pbuh) said: "Indeed, the disbeliever will be held to account on the Day of Resurrection until the sweat bridles him."

18344 - And in a narration in al-Awsat as well: "Indeed, the disbeliever will be bridled by his sweat from the severity of that Day until he says."

18345 - And on the authority of Jabir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, perspiration shall so closely cling to a person at the Standing Place that he will say: 'O my Lord, Your sending me to the Fire is easier for me than what I am experiencing,' even though he knows the severity of the punishment therein."

18346 - On the authority of Mu'adh bin Jabal, who said: The Prophet of Allah (pbuh) said: "The believers will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection hairless, beardless, with kohl-lined eyes, aged thirty years."

18347 - On the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: It was said, "O Messenger of Allah, a day the duration of which is fifty thousand years; how long this day is!" So the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, it will be lightened for the believer until it is lighter for him than an obligatory prayer he used to perform in this world."

18348 - And on the authority of Abu Hurairah, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "The day when mankind will stand before the Lord of the worlds will be the duration of half a day of fifty thousand years, yet that will be made easy for the believer like the sun's decline toward setting until it sets."

18349 - And on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr that he came to the Prophet (pbuh) and said: "I am asking you about three things." He said: "Ask about whatever you wish." He said: "How long will the people stand before the Lord of the Worlds on the Day of Resurrection? And what will be difficult for the believer during that standing? And is there a station between Paradise and the Fire?" He said: "As for your question: 'How long will the people stand before the Lord of the Worlds?' It is a thousand years, during which they are not given leave. As for your question: 'What will be difficult for the believer during that standing?' The believers are of two groups: as for the foremost, they are like two men who engaged in private conversation, and their conversation lasted long, then they departed and were admitted into Paradise." I said: "How easy this is!" "As for your question: 'Is there a station between Paradise and the Fire?' Verily, between them is my Basin, its balconies overlook Paradise and its balconies extend over the Fire. Its length is a month’s journey and its width is a month’s journey. It is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey. In it are cups of silver and flasks; whoever drinks a cup from it will feel neither thirst nor sorrow until judgment is passed among the people." I [the author] say: He has a Hadith mentioning the Basin in the Sahih.

18350 - And on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "You will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said: 'Where are the poor of this nation and its destitute?' So they will stand up, and He will say: 'What did you do?' They will reply: 'Our Lord, we were tested and we remained patient, while You granted authority and power to others besides us.' So Allah - Exalted is His mention - will say: 'You have spoken the truth' - or something similar - and they will enter Paradise a period of time before the people. The severity of the reckoning remains for those who held authority and power." They asked: "And where will the believers be on that day?" He said: "Pulpits of light will be placed for them, and clouds will shade them; that day will be shorter for the believers than an hour of a day."

And on the authority of Laqit ibn ‘Amir: that he went out as a delegate to the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), accompanied by a companion of his called Nahik ibn ‘Asim ibn Malik ibn al-Muntafiq. Laqit said: "My companion and I set out until we arrived before the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) at the end of Rajab. We came to the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) just as he had finished the morning prayer. He stood among the people to deliver a sermon and said: 'O people, I have kept my voice from you for four days to let you hear. Behold, is there any man who was sent by his people?' They [the people] said: 'Inform us of what the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) says.' [He continued]: 'Behold, then perhaps he might be distracted by his own thoughts, or the talk of his companion, or misguidance might distract him. Behold, I am responsible: Have I conveyed the message? Behold, listen that you may live! Behold, sit down! Behold, sit down!' So the people sat down. I and my companion stood until, when he directed his heart and gaze toward us, I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what do you have of the knowledge of the unseen?' He laughed—by the life of Allah—and shook his head, knowing that I was seeking to catch him in a slip. He said: 'Your Lord, Mighty and Majestic, has been stingy with the keys of the five things of the unseen; none knows them but Allah.' And he gestured with his hand. I said: 'And what are they?' He said: 'Knowledge of death; He knows when the death of any of you shall be, yet you do not know it. Knowledge of the drop of semen when it is in the womb; He has fashioned it while you do not know. Knowledge of what is in tomorrow and what you shall eat, yet you do not know it. Knowledge of the day of rain; He looks down upon you while you are desperate and fearful, and He continues to laugh, knowing that your relief is near.' Laqit said: 'We shall never lack good from a Lord who laughs.' [The Prophet added]: 'And knowledge of the Day of the Hour.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, teach us from what you teach the people, for we are from a people who do not believe anyone from Madhhij—who are superior to us in number—nor Khath‘am—who are our allies—nor the clan from which we come, as much as we believe you.' He said: 'You shall remain as long as you remain, then your Prophet (pbuh) shall pass away. Then you shall remain as long as you remain, then the Blast shall be sent. By the life of your God, it shall not leave anything on the back of the earth but that it dies, including the angels who are with your Lord, Mighty and Majestic. Then your Lord, Mighty and Majestic, shall encompass the earth, the lands having become empty of life. Then your Lord, Mighty and Majestic, shall send the sky with a heavy rain from the Throne. By the life of your God, it shall not leave any place where a person was killed or any grave of a dead person but that it shall split the grave open from him, until it creates him starting from his head. He shall then sit up straight, and your Lord will say: "What was he in?" He will say: "O Lord, yesterday or today," due to his recent memory of life, thinking he was just speaking with his family.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, how will He gather us after the winds, decay, and wild beasts have torn us apart?' He said: 'I shall inform you of the like of that among the favors of Allah: The earth, you look upon it while it is parched and decayed. You said: "It will never live again." Then your Lord, Mighty and Majestic, sent the sky [rain] upon it, and it did not take but a few days until you looked upon it and it was a single lush greenery. By the life of your God, He is more capable of gathering you from the water than He is of gathering the plants of the earth. You shall emerge from the light and from your places of death, and you shall look at Allah and He shall look at you.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, how [can that be] while we fill the earth and He is One, we look at Him and He looks at us?' He said: 'I shall inform you of the like of that among the favors of Allah: The sun and the moon are a small sign from Him; you see both of them and they see you at the same time, and you are not crowded in seeing them. By the life of your God, He is more capable of seeing you and you seeing Him than you are of seeing the sun and moon and them seeing you, without being crowded in seeing Him.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what will our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, do with us when we meet Him?' He said: 'You will be presented before Him, your records exposed, and no secret of yours will remain hidden. Then your Lord, Mighty and Majestic, will take a handful of water in His hand and sprinkle it toward you. By the life of your God, not a single drop of it will miss the face of any of you. As for the Muslim, it will leave his face like white linen, and as for the disbeliever, it will mark his nose with something like black charcoal. Then your Prophet (pbuh) will depart, and the righteous will be separated behind him, traversing a bridge of fire. One of you will step on a hot coal and say: "Hass!" [an expression of pain]. Your Lord, Mighty and Majestic, will say: "Is it indeed?" Then you will come upon the Basin (Hawd) of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) while in extreme thirst; by Allah, none who reach it will ever be thirsty again. By the life of your God, not one of you will stretch out his hand but that a cup will fall into it, purifying him from excrement, urine, and harm. The sun and the moon will be withheld, so you will see neither of them.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, then by what shall we see?' He said: 'By the like of your sight at this hour of yours, and that is before the rising of the sun on a day when the earth is illuminated and faces the mountains.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, by what shall we be recompensed for our evil deeds and our good deeds?' He said: 'The good deed is ten times its like, and the evil deed is by its equivalent, unless He pardons.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, is it either Paradise or the Fire?' He said: 'By the life of your God, the Fire has seven gates; between any two gates, a rider travels for seventy years.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what will we see in Paradise?' He said: 'Rivers of purified honey, rivers of a cup [wine] from which there is no headache or regret, rivers of milk whose taste has not changed, and water not stagnant, and fruit—by the life of your God—the like of which you do not know, and better than the like of it with it, and purified spouses.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, will we have spouses therein, or are they reformed women from these?' He said: 'The righteous women are for the righteous men; you shall find pleasure in them just as you find pleasure in this world, and they shall find pleasure in you, except that there shall be no childbirth.' Laqit said: 'I asked: "What is the furthest we shall reach and end up at?"' But the Prophet (pbuh) did not answer him. I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, upon what shall I pledge allegiance to you?' The Prophet (pbuh) stretched out his hand and said: 'Upon the establishment of prayer, the giving of Zakat, the separation from the polytheists, and that you do not associate any god with Allah.' I said: 'And we shall have what is between the East and the West?' The Prophet (pbuh) withdrew his hand and spread his fingers, thinking I was making a condition he could not grant. I said: 'We may settle wherever we wish, and no one shall be held accountable for a crime except himself?' So he stretched his hand out again and said: 'That is for you; you may settle where you wish, and no one shall be held accountable for a crime against you except yourself.' Then we departed from him, and he said: 'Behold, these two—by the life of your God—if you speak of them, they are among the most God-fearing people in the first and the last.' Ka‘b ibn al-Khudariyyah—one of the sons of Ka‘b ibn Kilab—said to him: 'Who are they, O Messenger of Allah?' He said: 'The Banu al-Muntafiq are the people of that.' We departed, and I turned back to him and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, is there any good for anyone from the past in their Jahiliyyah (Ignorance)?' A man from the common folk of Quraysh said: 'By Allah, your father Al-Muntafiq is in the Fire.' It was as if heat fell between my skin, my face, and my flesh because of what he said about my father in front of everyone. I intended to say: 'And your father, O Messenger of Allah?' but then I realized the other [response] was more ignorant. So I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, and your family?' He said: 'And my family, by the life of Allah. I do not come upon the grave of an ‘Amiri or a Qurashi from the polytheists but that I say: "Muhammad sent me to you to give you tidings of what will grieve you; you are being dragged on your face and your stomach in the Fire."' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what caused that to happen to them when they were doing work they knew no better than, and they thought they were doing good?' He said: 'That is because Allah sent at the end of every seven nations a Prophet; whoever disobeyed his Prophet was among the astray, and whoever obeyed his Prophet was among the guided.'"

18352 - And from Abdullah bin Mas'ud, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: Allah will gather the first and the last for a designated time on a known day, standing for forty years, their gazes fixed toward the sky, waiting for the final judgment. He said: And Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) will descend in shadows of clouds from the Throne to the Footstool (Al-Kursi). Then a caller will call out: O people, are you not pleased with your Lord who created you, provided for you, and commanded you to worship Him and not associate anything with Him, that He should put every group of you under the authority of what they used to worship in the world? Is that not justice from your Lord? They will say: Yes. He said: So every people will set out to what they used to worship, and they will say what they used to say in the world. He said: So they will set out, and likenesses of what they used to worship will be personified for them. Some will go to the sun, and some will go to the moon, and to stone idols and likenesses of what they used to worship. He said: For those who used to worship Jesus, the devil of Jesus will be personified, and for those who used to worship Ezra, the devil of Ezra will be personified. Muhammad (pbuh) and his nation will remain. He said: Then the Lord (Exalted is He) will manifest Himself and come to them, saying: Why do you not set out as the people have set out? They will say: We have a God whom we have not seen yet. He will say: Will you recognize Him if you see Him? They will say: There is a sign between us and Him; when we see it, we will recognize Him. He said: He will say: What is it? They will say: He uncovers His Shin. He said: At that moment, He will uncover His Shin, and everyone who was looking will fall prostrate. But a group of people will remain whose backs are like the horns of cattle; they will want to prostrate but will not be able to, for they were called to prostrate while they were healthy. Then He will say: Raise your heads. So they will raise their heads, and He will give them their light according to their deeds. Some will be given light like a great mountain running before them, some less than that, some like a palm tree in their hand, and some even less than that, until the last of them will be a man given light on his big toes, which flickers on and off. When it shines, he steps forward, and when it goes out, he stands still. He said: The Lord (Exalted is He) will be before them until He passes over the Fire, and His trace will remain like the edge of a sword. He said: He will say: Pass over. They will pass over according to their light: some like the blink of an eye, some like lightning, some like clouds, some like a falling star, some like the wind, some like a galloping horse, and some like a fast-moving rider, until the one given light on his toes passes. He will crawl on his face, hands, and feet; one hand slipping and another holding on, one foot slipping and another holding on, and the Fire will touch his sides. He will continue like that until he is saved. When he is saved, he will stand over it and say: Praise be to Allah, for Allah has given me what He has not given anyone else, since He saved me from it after I saw it. He said: He will be taken to a pond at the gate of Paradise, where he will bathe and regain the scent and color of the people of Paradise. He will see what is in Paradise through the gap of the door and say: O Lord, admit me to Paradise. Allah will say: Do you ask for Paradise when I have saved you from the Fire?! He will say: O Lord, place a barrier between me and it so that I do not hear its crackling. He said: So he enters Paradise and sees—or a residence is raised for him—before that, which makes his current place seem like a dream. He will say: O Lord, give me that residence. He will say to him: Perhaps if I give it to you, you will ask for something else. He says: No, by Your Might, I will not ask for anything else; what residence could be better than it? So it is given to him and he settles in it. Then he sees another residence before that, making his current one seem like a dream. He says: O Lord, give me that residence. Allah (Exalted is He) will say to him: Perhaps if I give it to you, you will ask for something else. He says: No, by Your Might, O Lord, I will not ask for anything else; what residence could be better than it? He said: So he is given that rank. He said: Then another residence is raised before him, making the previous one seem like a dream. He says: Give me that residence. Allah (the Almighty) says: Perhaps if I give it to you, you will ask for something else? He says: No, by Your Might, I will not ask for anything else; what residence could be better than it?! He said: So it is given to him and he settles in it. Then he remains silent. Allah (Glorious is His Mention) says: Why do you not ask? He says: O Lord, I have asked until I am shy before You, and I have sworn to You until I am shy. Allah (Glorious is His Mention) says: Would it not please you that I give you the equivalent of the world from the day I created it until the day I destroyed it, and ten times more? He says: Are You mocking me while You are the Lord of Might? Then the Lord (Exalted is He) laughs at his words. He said: I saw Abdullah bin Mas'ud laugh when he reached this part of the Hadith. A man said to him: O Abu Abdurrahman, I have heard you narrate this Hadith many times, and whenever you reach this place, you laugh! He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) narrate this Hadith many times, and whenever he reached this place in this Hadith, he would laugh until his molars showed. He said: The Lord (Glorious is His Mention) says: No, but I am capable of that. Ask. He says: Join me with the people. He says: Join the people. He said: So he sets off trotting into Paradise until he nears the people, and a palace made of pearl is raised for him. He falls down in prostration. It is said to him: Raise your head, what is the matter? He says: I saw my Lord—or my Lord appeared to me. It is said to him: It is only one of your residences. He said: Then he meets a man and prepares to prostrate to him. It is said to him: Desist! He says: I thought you were an angel from among the angels. He says: I am only a keeper among your keepers, and a servant among your servants, under my hand are a thousand stewards like myself. He said: He sets off before him to open the palace for him. He said: It is made of a hollow pearl, its roofs, doors, locks, and keys are of the same. He is met by a green jewel lined with red, in which are seventy doors, each door leading to a lined green jewel, each jewel leading to another jewel of a different color. In every jewel are couches, wives, and handmaidens. The lowest of them is a wide-eyed maiden, wearing seventy robes, the marrow of her leg can be seen through her robes. Her liver is a mirror for him, and his liver is a mirror for her. If he turns away from her for a moment, she increases seventy-fold in beauty in his eyes than she was before, and if she turns away from him for a moment, he increases seventy-fold in beauty in her eyes than he was before. He says to her: By Allah, you have increased seventy-fold in my eyes. And she says to him: And you, by Allah, have increased seventy-fold in my eyes. It is said to him: Look out. He looks out, and it is said to him: Your kingdom is a journey of a hundred years, which your sight encompasses. He said: Umar said: Do you hear what the son of Umm Abd is narrating to us, O Ka'b, about the lowest person in Paradise in rank? So what about the highest of them?! He said: O Commander of the Faithful, what no eye has seen and no ear has heard. Allah (Glorious is His Mention) created a home and placed in it whatever He willed of wives, fruits, and drinks, then He sealed it, and none of His creation has seen it—neither Gabriel nor any other of the angels. Then Ka'b recited: {No soul knows what has been hidden for them of comfort for the eyes as a reward for what they used to do} [As-Sajdah: 17]. He said: And He created below that two gardens, and adorned them as He willed, and showed them to whomever He willed of His creation. Then Ka'b said: Whoever's record is in 'Illiyyun will dwell in that home which no one has seen. Even a man from the people of 'Illiyyun will come out and travel through his kingdom, and no tent among the tents of Paradise will remain except that it is entered by the light of his face. They will rejoice at his scent and say: How wonderful is this scent! This is the scent of a man from the people of 'Illiyyun who has come out to travel through his kingdom. He said: Umar said: Woe to you, O Ka'b, these hearts have relaxed, so restrain them. So Ka'b said: By Him in whose hand is my soul, indeed Hellfire will have such a gasp on the Day of Resurrection that there will be no near angel nor sent Prophet but that he will fall to his knees, until even Abraham, the Friend of Allah, will say: My Lord, my soul, my soul! Until, even if you had the deeds of seventy prophets added to your own deeds, you would think that you would not be saved.

18353 - And in a narration: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "People will stand for the Lord of the worlds for forty years, their eyes staring fixedly, waiting for the final judgment." He said: And he mentioned the like of the hadith of Zayd ibn Abi Unaysah.

18354 - And on the authority of Samurah bin Jundub: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) used to say to us: "Verily, you will be gathered towards Bayt al-Maqdis, then you will be assembled on the Day of Resurrection."

And on the authority of Ibn Abbas, he said: "Whoever doubts that the Gathering (al-Mahshar) is in ash-Sham, let him read the beginning of Surah al-Hashr: {It is He who expelled those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture from their homes at the first gathering} [al-Hashr: 2]." He said: Then the Prophet (pbuh) said: "It is the land of the Gathering," meaning ash-Sham.

18356 - And on the authority of Abu Musa al-Ash'ari, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "People will be gathered, and a caller will proclaim: 'Is it not justice from Me that I should assign to every people that which they used to worship?' Then their deities will be raised for them and they will follow them, until none remain except this nation. It will then be said to them: 'What is the matter with you?' They will say: 'We do not see our God whom we used to worship.' Thereupon, He—Exalted and Glorified—will manifest Himself to them." It was said to Abu Burdah: "By Allah, did you indeed hear Abu Musa mention this from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh)?" He replied: "By Allah, besides Whom there is no other god," three times.

18357 - And from Abu Musa, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "This nation will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection into three categories: a category that enters Paradise without any reckoning, a category that is reckoned with an easy reckoning and enters Paradise, and a category that comes with their burdens upon their backs like the likeness of firm mountains. Then Allah - Mighty and Majestic is He - will say to the angels - and He is most knowledgeable of them: 'Who are these?' They will say: 'Our Lord, these are servants from among Your servants; they used to worship You and did not associate anything with You.' So He will say: 'Cast these [burdens] off from them and place them upon the Jews and the Christians, and enter Paradise by My mercy.'" I say: He has a hadith in the Sahih other than this.

18358 - And on the authority of Ibn Mas'ud, who said: "Verily, you will be gathered on a single level plain; the sight will encompass them all, and the caller will be heard by them all."

18359 - And from Abdullah bin Amr, from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), who said: "Indeed, Allah will gather the nations on the Day of Resurrection, then He will descend from His Throne to His Footstool, and His Footstool encompasses the heavens and the earth."

Narrated by Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "There shall come with me from my community on the Day of Resurrection [a multitude] like the torrent and the night. They will surge and crush the people, such that the angels will say: 'Verily, what has come with Muhammad is more than what has come with the rest of the nations or the Prophets.'"

18361 - And on the authority of Abu Dharr and Abu al-Darda’: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Verily, I shall recognize my nation on the Day of Resurrection from among the nations." They said: "O Messenger of Allah, how will you recognize your nation?" He said: "I shall recognize them by their records being given to them in their right hands, and I shall recognize them by their marks on their faces from the traces of prostration, and I shall recognize them by their light running before them."

18362 - And in a narration: "It shall proceed before them and on their right."

18363 - And on the authority of Abu al-Darda, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I am the first who will be permitted to prostrate on the Day of Resurrection, and I am the first who will be permitted to raise his head. Then I shall look at what is before me and recognize my nation from among the nations, and from behind me likewise, and from my right likewise, and from my left likewise." A man said: "O Messenger of Allah, how will you recognize your nation from among the nations, between the time of Noah and your nation?" He said: "They will be radiant with white marks on their foreheads and limbs from the traces of ablution; no one else will be like that except them. And I will recognize them because they are given their records in their right hands, and I will recognize them by their offspring running before them."

18364 - And on the authority of Jabir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "You are the ones with radiant faces and white marks on your limbs."

18365 - On the authority of 'Ikrimah, who said: "Both of Allah's hands are right hands. He will fold the heavens and take them in His hand, then He will say: 'I am the King; where are the tyrants? Where are the arrogant?' He said: 'Then He takes the earths in His other hand and then says: 'I am the King; where are the tyrants? Where are the arrogant?''" 'Umar bin Hamzah said: I narrated this Hadith to Salim bin 'Abdullah, and Salim said: 'Abdullah bin 'Umar informed us, saying: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Allah will fold the heavens on the Day of Resurrection, then He will take them in His right hand [saying]: 'I am the King; where are the tyrants? Where are the arrogant?' Then He will fold the earths, then take them in His left, then He will say: 'I am the King; where are the tyrants? Where are the arrogant?'" I said: The Hadith of Ibn 'Umar is in the Sahih in a version shorter than this.

18366 - And on the authority of Abdullah—meaning Ibn Mas'ud—from the Prophet (pbuh) regarding the Word of Allah: "The Day when the earth will be replaced by another earth" [Ibrahim: 48], he said: "A white earth, upon which no blood has been shed and no sin has been committed."

18367 - On the authority of al-Hasan, who said: Abu Hurayrah narrated to us back then while we were in Medina, saying: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Deeds will come on the Day of Resurrection. Prayer will come and say: 'O Lord, I am Prayer.' He will say: 'Indeed, you are upon good.' Then Charity will come and say: 'O Lord, I am Charity.' He will say: 'Indeed, you are upon good.' Then Fasting will come and say: 'O Lord, I am Fasting.' He will say: 'Indeed, you are upon good.' Then deeds will come likewise, and Allah—the Blessed and Exalted—will say: 'Indeed, you are upon good.' Then Islam will come and say: 'O Lord, You are Peace (As-Salam) and I am Islam.' Allah—the Mighty and Majestic—will say: 'Indeed, you are upon good; by you today I shall take, and by you I shall give.' Allah—the Mighty and Majestic—said in His Book: 'And whoever desires other than Islam as religion - never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers' [Al-Imran: 85]."

18368 - And on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I saw the people gathered for the account."

18369 - And from Jabir bin Abdullah, who said: "News reached me of a man who heard a Hadith from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh). So I bought a camel, fastened my saddle upon it, and traveled to him for a month until I arrived in Ash-Sham. It turned out to be Abdullah bin Unays. I said to the doorkeeper: 'Tell him: Jabir is at the door.' He asked: 'The son of Abdullah?' I replied: 'Yes.' Then he came out, treading upon his garment [in haste], and he embraced me and I embraced him. I said: 'A Hadith reached me concerning you, which you heard from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) regarding retribution (Al-Qisas), and I feared that you might die or I might die before I could hear it.' He said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: "Allah will gather the servants on the Day of Resurrection—or he said: the people on the Day of Resurrection—barefoot, naked, uncircumcised, and 'buhman'." He said: We asked: 'And what is 'buhman'?' He said: "They will have nothing with them. Then He will call out to them with a voice that is heard by those far away just as it is heard by those nearby: I am the Judge (Ad-Dayyan), I am the King. It is not fitting for any of the people of the Fire to enter the Fire while they have a right due from any of the people of Paradise until I have exacted it from them; nor is it fitting for any of the people of Paradise to enter Paradise while any of the people of the Fire have a right due from them until I have exacted it from them, even if it be a slap."' He said: We asked: 'How [will retribution be taken] given that we come naked, uncircumcised, and with nothing (buhman)?' He said: "[It will be through] good deeds and bad deeds."

18370 - And on the authority of Ibn Abbas, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The feet of a servant shall not move on the Day of Resurrection until he is asked about four things: about his life, how he spent it; about his body, how he wore it out; about his wealth, how he spent it and from where he earned it; and about the love of us, the People of the House."

18371 - And on the authority of Abu Barzah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The feet of a servant shall not move until he is asked about four things: about his body as to how he wore it out, about his life as to how he spent it, about his wealth as to from where he earned it and on what he spent it, and about our love, the People of the House." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is the sign of your love?" Thereupon he placed his hand upon the shoulder of Ali (may Allah be pleased with him).

18372 - And on the authority of Abu al-Darda, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The feet of a servant shall not move on the Day of Resurrection until he is questioned about four things: about his youth and how he wore it out, about his life and how he consumed it, and about his wealth, from where he earned it and on what he spent it."

18373 - And on the authority of Mu'adh ibn Jabal, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The feet of a servant shall not move on the Day of Resurrection until he is asked about four matters: about his life, how he spent it; about his youth, how he utilized it; about his wealth, from where he earned it and on what he spent it; and about his knowledge, what he did with it."

18374 - On the authority of Ibn Umar, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "When it is the Day of Resurrection, Allah will call a servant from among His servants and station him before Him; then He will question him regarding his prestige just as He questions him regarding his wealth."

18375 - And on the authority of Buraydah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "There is none among you but that Allah – Mighty and Majestic is He – shall speak to him, with no veil and no interpreter between Him and him."

18376 - And on the authority of Abd Allah bin Ukim, who said: "I heard Abd Allah bin Mas'ud in this mosque beginning with an oath before speaking, as he said: 'There is none among you but that his Lord—Mighty and Majestic—will be in seclusion with him just as one of you is in seclusion with the moon on the night of the full moon. He will say: O son of Adam, what deceived you concerning Me? O son of Adam, what deceived you concerning Me? O son of Adam, what was your response to the Messengers? O son of Adam, what was your response to the Messengers? O son of Adam, what did you do? O son of Adam, what did you do? O son of Adam, what did you do? O son of Adam, what did you do with what you knew? O son of Adam, what did you do with what you knew?'"

And on the authority of Thawban: that the Prophet (pbuh) emphasized the gravity of the matter and said: "When the Day of Resurrection comes, the people of the pre-Islamic era (Jahiliyyah) will come carrying their idols on their backs. Their Lord, Glorified and Exalted, will then question them, and they will say: 'Our Lord, You did not send a messenger to us, nor did any command from You reach us. Had You sent a messenger to us, we would have been the most obedient of Your servants.' Their Lord will say to them: 'If I were to command you with a matter, would you obey Me?' and He takes their covenants upon that. He then says: 'Proceed to it and enter it.' They set out until they see it, then they become terrified and return. They say: 'Our Lord, we were terrified of it; we are unable to enter it.' He says: 'Enter it in humiliation.'" The Prophet of Allah (pbuh) said: "Had they entered it the first time, it would have been cool and safe for them."

18378 - And on the authority of al-Hasan, who said: Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed us from the pulpit of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: "Allah (Mighty and Majestic) will surely offer three excuses to Adam (peace be upon him) on the Day of Resurrection. Allah the Exalted says: 'O Adam, were it not that I have cursed liars, hated falsehood and swearing, and threatened punishment for it, I would have shown mercy this day to all of your children due to the severity of the punishment I have prepared for them. However, the word from Me has come true: if My messengers are belied and My command is disobeyed, I shall surely fill Hell with jinn and men all together.' And Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says: 'O Adam, know that I do not admit any of your progeny into the Fire, nor do I punish any of them with the Fire, except those whom I have known by My knowledge that if I were to return them to the world, they would return to the worst of what they were in, and they would not repent or seek favor.' And Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says: 'O Adam, I have made you a judge between Me and your progeny. Stand by the Balance and look at what is raised to you of their deeds; so whoever among them has his good outweigh his evil by the weight of an atom, for him is Paradise, until you know that I do not admit into the Fire any of them except a wrongdoer.'"

18379 - And on the authority of Anas, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "Injustice is of three types: an injustice that Allah does not forgive, an injustice that He forgives, and an injustice that Allah does not leave. As for the injustice that Allah does not forgive, it is associating partners with Allah (Shirk); Allah said: 'Indeed, Shirk is a great injustice.' As for the injustice that Allah forgives, it is the injustice of the servants against themselves in what is between them and their Lord. As for the injustice that Allah does not leave, it is the injustice of the servants against one another, until He exacts retribution for some of them from others."

18380 - And on the authority of Salman, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "A sin that is not forgiven, a sin that is not left alone, and a sin that is forgiven. As for the sin that is not forgiven, it is associating partners with Allah; as for the sin that is forgiven, it is the servant's sin between him and Allah (Mighty and Majestic); and as for the sin that is not left alone, it is the sins of the servants against one another."

18381 - And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "There is a sin that is forgiven, a sin that is not forgiven, and a sin for which retribution is exacted. As for the sin that is not forgiven, it is associating partners with Allah. As for the sin that is forgiven, it is your deed between you and your Lord. And as for the sin for which retribution is exacted, it is your injustice toward your brother."

18382 - And on the authority of Aisha, she said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The registers with Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, are three: a register for which Allah does not care at all, a register from which Allah leaves nothing out, and a register which Allah does not forgive. As for the register which Allah does not forgive, it is associating partners with Allah; Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, said: 'Indeed, he who associates others with Allah - Allah has forbidden him Paradise' [Al-Ma'idah: 72]. As for the register for which Allah does not care at all, it is the servant's wrongdoing against himself in what is between him and his Lord, such as a day of fasting he omitted or a prayer he omitted; for indeed, Allah forgives that and overlooks it if He wills. As for the register from which Allah leaves nothing out, it is the wrongdoing of the servants against one another; retribution is inevitable."

18383 - And on the authority of Hudhayfah, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "Woe to the master from the slave, and woe to the slave from the master."

And on the authority of Anas bin Malik, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Woe to the owner from the slave, and woe to the slave from the owner, and woe to the rich from the poor, and woe to the poor from the rich, and woe to the strong from the weak, and woe to the weak from the strong."

And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Every single thing shall surely litigate on the Day of Resurrection, even two sheep regarding that for which they butted each other."

And on the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, litigation shall surely occur on the Day of Resurrection, even between two sheep concerning their butting of one another."

18387 - And on the authority of 'Uqbah ibn 'Amir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The first two adversaries on the Day of Resurrection will be two neighbors."

18388 - And on the authority of Abu Ayyub: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The first of those who will litigate on the Day of Resurrection are a man and his wife. By Allah, her tongue shall not speak, but her hands and her feet shall testify against her regarding how she used to find fault with her husband, and his hands and feet shall testify regarding how he used to treat her. Then the man and his servants will be summoned, and the like of that will occur. Then the people of the markets will be summoned, and there shall be found there neither daniqs nor qirats, but the good deeds of this one will be given to the one who was wronged, and the evil deeds of the one who wronged him will be placed upon him. Then the tyrants will be brought in maces of iron, and it will be said: 'Lead them to the Fire.' By Allah, I do not know whether they will enter it, or as Allah the Almighty said: 'And there is none of you except he will come to it. This is upon your Lord an inevitability decreed. Then We will save those who feared Allah and leave the wrongdoers within it, on their knees' [Maryam: 71-72]."

And on the authority of Wathilah bin al-Asqa', from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), who said: "On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will raise a servant who has no sin and will say: 'By which of the two things would you prefer I reward you: by your deeds or by My blessing upon you?' He replies: 'My Lord, indeed You know that I did not disobey You.' He says: 'Take My servant to account against one of My blessings.' Thus, not a single good deed remains that is not consumed by that blessing. He then says: 'O Lord, [grant me] Your blessing and Your mercy.' He says: 'By My blessing and My mercy.' Then a servant who considered himself a doer of good and did not see any sin in himself will be brought. It will be said to him: 'Did you show loyalty to My allies?' He replies: 'I was at peace with people.' He says: 'Did you show enmity toward My enemies?' He says: 'O Lord, there was nothing between me and anyone.' Then Allah—Mighty and Sublime—says: 'He who does not show loyalty to My allies and show enmity toward My enemies shall not attain My mercy.'"

18390 - And on the authority of Ibn Umar, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "The master and the slave, and the husband and the wife, shall be brought forth. Then the master and the slave shall be held to account, and the husband and the wife shall be held to account, until it is said to the man: 'You drank on such and such a day for pleasure,' and it is said to the husband: 'You proposed to so-and-so along with other suitors, yet I married her to you and left them.'"

18391 - And from Ibn al-Zubayr, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Whoever has their account scrutinized will perish."

And from Aisha: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "No one is brought to account on the Day of Resurrection and then forgiven; the Muslim sees his deeds in his grave, and Allah - the Mighty and Majestic - says: {Then on that Day none will be asked about his sin among men or jinn - The criminals will be known by their marks} [Ar-Rahman: 39-41]."

And on the authority of Jabir ibn 'Abd Allah: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Shame and humiliation will reach the son of Adam on the Day of Resurrection to such an extent that the servant will wish to be ordered into the Fire."

18394 - And on the authority of Anas - tracing it back to the Prophet (pbuh) - who said: "There is an angel entrusted with the Scale. The son of Adam will be brought and made to stand between the two pans of the Scale. If his scale is heavy, an angel will call out with a voice that all creatures can hear: 'So-and-so has attained a felicity after which he shall never be wretched.' And if his scale is light, an angel will call out with a voice that all creatures can hear: 'So-and-so has fallen into a wretchedness after which he shall never be happy.'"

18395 - And from Anas bin Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "On the Day of Resurrection, sealed scrolls shall be brought and placed before Allah - the Exalted. He - the Exalted - will then say: 'Cast these away and accept these.' The angels will say: 'By Your Might, we have seen nothing but good.' Then Allah - the Mighty and Majestic - will say: 'Indeed, this was for other than My Sake, and today I do not accept except that which was sought for My Sake.'"

18396 - And in a narration: "Then the angels say: By Your Might, we have not written except what he did! He said: You have spoken the truth; indeed, his deed was for other than My Face."

18397 - And from Anas bin Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "When it is the end of time, my Ummah will become three groups: a group that worships Allah sincerely, a group that worships Allah ostentatiously, and a group that worships Allah to consume the wealth of people through it. When Allah gathers them on the Day of Resurrection, He will say to the one who used to consume the wealth of people: 'By My Might and My Majesty, what did you intend by My worship?' He will say: 'By Your Might and Your Majesty, I sought to consume the wealth of people through it.' He will say: 'Nothing of what you gathered shall benefit you as something to take refuge in; take him to the Fire.' Then He will say to the one who used to worship ostentatiously: 'By My Might and My Majesty, what did you intend by My worship?' He said: 'By Your Might and Your Majesty, [to seek] the ostentation of the people.' He said: 'Nothing from it ascended to Me; take him to the Fire.' Then He will say to the one who used to worship Him sincerely: 'By My Might and My Majesty, what did you intend by My worship?' He said: 'By Your Might and Your Majesty, You know that better than I; I intended by it Your remembrance and Your Face.' He will say: 'My servant has spoken the truth; take him to Paradise.'"

18398 - And on the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), who said: "When the Day of Resurrection occurs, the disbeliever will be made to recognize his deeds, but he will deny and dispute. It will be said to him: 'These are your neighbors testifying against you.' He will say: 'They have lied.' It will be said: 'Your family and your kinsmen.' He will say: 'They have lied.' He will say: 'Swear an oath,' and they will swear. Then Allah will silence them, and their tongues will testify, then He will enter them into the Fire."

18399 - And on the authority of 'Uqbah ibn 'Amir: that he heard the Prophet (pbuh) say: "Indeed, the first bone of a human being to speak on the Day when mouths are sealed is his thigh from the left leg."

18400 - And on the authority of Mu'awiya ibn Haydah, who said: "I came to the Prophet (pbuh), and he said: 'Why is it that I am holding you by your waistbands [to keep you] from the Fire? Verily, my Lord—Mighty and Majestic is He—is calling me, and He will question me: "Have you conveyed [the message] to My servants?" and I shall say: "My Lord, I have indeed conveyed it to them." So let those who are present among you convey it to those who are absent. Then indeed, you shall be summoned with your mouths gagged with muzzles. Verily, the first parts of any of you to speak out [to testify] shall be his thigh and his palm.' I said: 'O Prophet of Allah, is this our religion?' He said: 'This is your religion; and wherever you do good, it will suffice you.'"

18401 - I said: The hadith of Abdullah ibn Unays has previously been mentioned: that he heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: "Allah will gather the servants on the Day of Resurrection—or he said: the people—naked, uncircumcised, and destitute (buhman)." He said: We asked, "And what is 'buhman'?" He replied, "They have nothing with them. Then He will call out to them with a voice that is heard by those who are far just as it is heard by those who are near: 'I am the Judge (al-Dayyan), I am the King. It is not fitting for any of the people of the Fire to enter the Fire while he has a right owed to him by one of the people of Paradise until I settle it for him; and it is not fitting for any of the people of Paradise to enter Paradise while one of the people of the Fire has a right against him until I settle it for him, even a slap.'" He said: We said, "How [will that be] when we come naked, uncircumcised, and destitute?" He said: "Through good deeds and bad deeds."

18402 - And from Aisha and some of the companions of the Prophet (pbuh), from the Prophet (pbuh): That a man from the companions of the Prophet (pbuh) sat before him and said: "O Messenger of Allah, I have slaves who lie to me, betray me, and disobey me, and I strike them and revile them. How do I stand in relation to them, O Messenger of Allah?" The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said to him: "The extent to which they betrayed you, disobeyed you, and lied to you will be measured against your punishment of them. If your punishment of them was less than their sins, it will be a merit for you. If your punishment of them was equal to their sins, it will be break-even, neither for you nor against you. But if your punishment of them was in excess of their sins, the excess remaining against you will be retaliated for them from you." The man then began to cry before the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and sob aloud. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said to him: "What is the matter with you? Do you not read the Book of Allah: 'And We place the scales of justice for the Day of Resurrection, so no soul will be treated unjustly at all. And if there is [even] the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it forth. And sufficient are We as accountant' [Al-Anbiya: 47]?" The man said: "O Messenger of Allah, I find nothing better for me than parting with these—meaning his slaves. I call you to witness that they are all free."

18403 - And on the authority of Abu Dharr: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) was sitting while two sheep were grazing, then one of them butted the other and overwhelmed her, so the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) laughed. It was said: "What makes you laugh, O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "I marveled at her; by Him in Whose Hand is my soul, justice shall surely be exacted for her on the Day of Resurrection."

18404 - And in a narration: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saw two sheep butting each other and said: "O Abu Dharr, do you know why they are butting each other?" He said: "No." He (pbuh) said: "But Allah knows, and He will judge between them."

And from 'Uthman: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, the hornless animal will surely take its retaliation from the horned animal on the Day of Resurrection."

18406 - And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Retribution will be exacted for the creation, from one another, even for the hornless animal from the horned animal, and even for the atom from the atom."

18407 - And from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Truthful and the Believed, Abu al-Qasim (pbuh), narrated to me: "Indeed, the first adversaries to be judged on the Day of Resurrection will be two goats: one with horns and one without horns."

18408 - And on the authority of Abdullah bin Abi Awfa, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, the justice of Allah on the Day of Resurrection will reach such an extent that retribution will be exacted for the hornless animal from the horned one."

18409 - And from Umm Salamah, the wife of the Prophet (pbuh), she said: "The Prophet (pbuh) was in my house and in his hand was a tooth-stick (siwak). He called a young servant girl of his — or hers — until anger became visible on his face. So Umm Salamah went out to the chambers and found the servant girl playing with a young lamb. She said: 'Do I not see you playing with this lamb while the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) is calling you?' She replied: 'No, by the One Who sent you with the truth, I did not hear you.' So the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: 'Had it not been for the fear of retaliation (qawad), I would have pained you with this tooth-stick (siwak).'"

18410 - And in a narration: "Were it not for the [fear of] legal retribution, I would have struck you with this siwak."

18411 - And in a narration: "If it were not for the fear of retaliation (Qisas), I would have pained you with this whip."

And on the authority of Ammar bin Yasir, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "There is no man who strikes a slave of his except that retribution shall be taken from him on the Day of Resurrection."

18413 - And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Whoever strikes with a whip unjustly, retribution will be taken from him on the Day of Resurrection."

18414 - And on the authority of Thawban, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "The Compeller (Al-Jabbar) - Glorified and Exalted - shall come on the Day of Resurrection and place His leg upon the bridge and say: 'By My Might and My Majesty, the injustice of an oppressor shall not pass Me.' Then He shall grant justice to the creation, one from another, until He grants justice for the hornless sheep against the horned sheep for a butt it had given it."

18415 - And on the authority of Salman: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "A man will come on the Day of Resurrection with good deeds by which he hopes he will be saved. Then, a man whom he had wronged with some injustice will keep coming, and it will be taken from his good deeds and given to the wronged person, until not a single good deed remains for him. Then, another who has a claim against him will come while nothing remains of his good deeds, so some of the bad deeds of the wronged person will be taken and placed upon his own bad deeds." It was narrated by At-Tabarani and Al-Bazzar from Abdullah ibn Ishaq al-Attar, from Khalid ibn Hamza.

18416 - And on the authority of Sulayman ibn Habib al-Muharibi, who said: "I went out as a warrior, and when I passed through Homs, I went to the market to purchase what a traveler cannot do without. When I looked toward the door of the mosque, I said: 'If only I entered and performed two rak'ahs.' When I entered, I saw Thabit ibn Ma'bad and Mak'hul among a group of people, and they said: 'We intend to visit Abu Umamah al-Bahili.' So they stood up, and I stood with them, and we entered upon him. He was an old man who had become frail and aged, yet his intellect and speech were superior to what we perceived of his appearance. The first thing he narrated to us was that he said: 'Indeed, this gathering of yours is part of Allah's delivery to you and His proof against you. Verily, the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) has delivered what he was sent with, and his companions have delivered what they heard, so deliver what you hear: Three are all guaranteed by Allah - Mighty and Majestic -: a man who goes out in the cause of Allah, for he is guaranteed by Allah - Mighty and Majestic - until He enters him into Paradise, or returns him with what he attained of reward or booty; and a man who enters his house with peace.' Then he said: 'Indeed, in Hell there is a bridge that has seven spans; upon the middle of it are the sinners. A servant will be brought, and when he reaches the middle span, it will be said to him: "What debt do you owe?" And he recited this verse: "{And they will not conceal from Allah a [single] statement}" [An-Nisa: 42]. He said: "Then he will say: 'O Lord, I owe such and such.' It will be said to him: 'Pay your debt.' He will say: 'I have nothing, and I do not know how I can pay any of it!' It will be said: 'Take from his good deeds.' So they will continue to take from his good deeds until no good deed remains for him. When his good deeds are exhausted, it will be said: 'His good deeds have been exhausted.' Then it will be said: 'Take from the bad deeds of those who are seeking from him, and place them upon him.' For it has reached me that men will come with good deeds like mountains, but they will continue to be taken for those seeking their rights until no good deed remains for him."

And on the authority of Abu Umamah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The oppressor will come on the Day of Resurrection, and when he is upon the bridge of Hell, amidst darkness and rugged terrain, the one who was oppressed will meet him, recognizing him and the injustice he committed against him. Those who were oppressed will not cease taking retribution from those who oppressed them until they extract whatever good deeds are in their possession. If they have no good deeds remaining, then some of the evil deeds of the oppressed will be cast upon them until they are delivered into the lowest depths of the Fire."

18418 - And from Abu Hurairah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "On the Day of Resurrection, injustices among people and their rights will be brought forth like mountains, and Allah will continue to settle them until nothing remains of them."

18419 - And from Abu Burdah bin Niyar, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Verily, Allah - Mighty and Majestic - will detain the debtor for his creditor as severely as anything has ever been detained against another. He will say: 'O Lord, how shall I give him while You have gathered me naked and barefoot, so from where?!' Allah - Mighty and Majestic - will say: 'I shall give them from your good deeds.' Thus, they will be added to the good deeds of those people; if they suffice [it is well], otherwise, some of the sins of those people will be taken and cast upon your sins."

And on the authority of Ibn Abbas, from the Prophet (pbuh), from the Trustworthy Spirit, who said: The Lord – Blessed and Exalted – said: "The evil deeds and good deeds of the servant shall be brought forth, and they shall be balanced or settled; if even a single good deed remains for him, Paradise will be expanded for him."

18421 - And on the authority of Zadhan, who said: "I entered upon Abdullah bin Mas’ud while the wearers of silk and brocade had already preceded me to his assembly. I said: 'You have brought the people near and distanced me.' He said to me: 'Come near.' He brought me near until he seated me on his carpet, then he said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: "Indeed, parents will have a debt against their child. When it is the Day of Resurrection, they will cling to him, and he will say: 'I am your child,' yet they will desire or wish that it [the debt] was even more than that."'"

And on the authority of Jahm bin Aws, who said: I heard 'Abdullah bin Abi Maryam—and 'Abdullah bin Rustum passed by him in his procession and said to Ibn Abi Maryam: "Indeed, I long for your company and your speech." Then, when he had passed, Ibn Abi Maryam said: I heard Abu Hurayrah—may Allah be pleased with him—saying: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Do not envy a wicked person for a blessing, for indeed, you do not know what he will encounter after his death; verily, he has with Allah a killer that does not die."

18423 - On the authority of Anas ibn Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "May Allah have mercy on a servant who had committed a transgression against his brother concerning his person or his property, and then approached him to seek his pardon before the Day of Resurrection; for there, there shall be neither Dinar nor Dirham, rather there are only good deeds." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah, what if he has no good deeds?" He said: "Some of [his brother's] evil deeds will be taken and cast upon his [own] evil deeds."

Narrated by Abu Musa who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Allah does not conceal [the sins of] a servant in this world and then shame him for them on the Day of Resurrection."

18425 - On the authority of Umm Hani bint Abi Talib, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "Indeed, Allah - the Exalted - will gather the first and the last on a single plain. Then a caller will call out from beneath the Throne: 'O people of monotheism, indeed Allah - the Mighty and Majestic - has forgiven you.' Then the people will stand and some of them will cling to others regarding grievances. Then a caller will call out: 'O people of monotheism, let some of you forgive others, and upon Me is the reward.'"

18426 - And on the authority of Anas bin Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "When the creatures meet on the Day of Resurrection, and the people of Paradise have entered Paradise and the people of the Fire have entered the Fire, a caller will call out: 'O people of the assembly, forgo the grievances among yourselves, and your reward is upon Me.'"

18427 - On the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "No one shall enter Paradise except by the mercy of Allah." They said: "[O Messenger of Allah], not even you?!" He said: "Not even I, unless Allah envelopes me [with His mercy]." And he gestured with his hand over his head.

18428 - And from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "None of you will be saved by his deeds." They said: "Not even you, O Messenger of Allah?!" He said: "Not even I, unless Allah covers me with mercy from Him. So follow the right course, strive for perfection, and [travel toward Allah] in the morning, the evening, and a portion of the night; and [adhere to] moderation, moderation, and you will reach [your destination]." I said: It is in the Sahih in an abbreviated form.

And from him also, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "No one’s deeds will ever save him." They said: "Not even you, O Messenger of Allah?!" He said: "Not even I, unless Allah encompasses me with mercy from Him and grace. And if He were to take me and Jesus to account for what these two have committed, He would have destroyed us." And he pointed to the index and middle fingers. I say: It is in the Sahih [collections], except for his saying: "And if He were to take me to account."

18430 - And on the authority of Abu Musa, from the Prophet (pbuh) that he said: "The deeds of any one of you will never save him." They said: "Not even you, O Messenger of Allah?!" He said: "Not even I, unless Allah envelopes me in mercy from Him."

18431 - And from Sharik ibn Tariq, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "None among you shall enter Paradise by his deeds." They said: "Not even you, O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Not even I, unless Allah encompasses me with mercy and grace from Him."

18432 - And from Usama bin Sharik, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "No one shall enter Paradise by his deeds." We said: "Not even you, O Messenger of Allah?!" He said: "Not even I, unless Allah—Mighty and Majestic—envelops me in mercy from Him." And he placed his hand upon his head.

18433 - And on the authority of Asad ibn Kurz, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "O Asad ibn Kurz, you shall not enter Paradise by virtue of deeds, but rather by the mercy of Allah." He asked: "Not even you, O Messenger of Allah?!" He replied: "Not even I, unless Allah meets me—or covers me—with mercy from Him."

And from Anas bin Malik, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "Three registers will be brought forth for the son of Adam on the Day of Resurrection: a register containing righteous deeds, a register containing his sins, and a register containing the blessings from Allah upon him. Then Allah will say to the smallest blessing—I think he said: in the register of blessings—'Take your price from his righteous deeds.' It will then consume all of his righteous deeds, then it will step aside and say: 'By Your Might, I have not been fully repaid.' Thus, the sins and the blessings remain, while the righteous deeds have all vanished. If Allah intends to show mercy to a servant, He says: 'O servant, I have multiplied your good deeds and pardoned your evil deeds'—I think he said: 'and I have gifted My blessings to you.'"

18435 - And from Ibn 'Umar: that a man from Abyssinia came to the Prophet (pbuh) and said: "O Messenger of Allah, you have been favored over us by skin colors and Prophethood. Do you see that if I believe in the like of what you believe in, and I act in accordance with the like of what you act with, that I shall be with you in Paradise?" The Prophet (pbuh) said: "Yes." Then the Prophet (pbuh) said: "Whoever says: 'There is no god but Allah', he has for it a covenant with Allah; and whoever says: 'Glory be to Allah', Allah writes for him one hundred good deeds." They said: "O Messenger of Allah, how could we perish after this?" The Prophet (pbuh) said: "By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, a man will certainly come on the Day of Resurrection with a deed which, if it were placed upon a mountain, would weigh it down; then a blessing from the blessings of Allah will arise and almost exhaust all of that, were it not for the mercy that Allah bestows." Then there was revealed: "{Has there come upon man a period of time when he was not a thing [even] mentioned?} [Al-Insan: 1]" up to His saying: "{And when you look there [in Paradise], you will see pleasure and a great kingdom} [Al-Insan: 20]." The Abyssinian said: "O Messenger of Allah, and will my eye see in Paradise the like of what your eye sees?" The Prophet (pbuh) said: "Yes." So the Abyssinian wept until his soul departed. Ibn 'Umar said: "And I saw the Prophet (pbuh) lowering him into his grave."

18436 - And on the authority of Wathilah bin al-Asqa', from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), who said: "Allah will resurrect a servant on the Day of Resurrection who has no sin, and Allah will say: 'By which of the two matters would you prefer that I recompense you: by your deeds, or by My blessing upon you?' He said: 'O my Lord, indeed You know that I did not disobey You.' He said: 'Take My servant [to account] by one of My blessings,' and not a single good deed of his will remain except that it is consumed by that blessing. Then he will say: 'My Lord, by Your blessing and Your mercy.' Then He [Allah] will say: 'By My blessing and My mercy.'"

On the authority of Jabir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "There is not in the seven heavens the space of a foot, nor a handspan, nor a palm, except that in it there is an angel standing, an angel bowing, or an angel prostrating. When the Day of Resurrection comes, they will all say: 'Glory be to You, we have not worshipped You as You truly deserve to be worshipped, except that we did not associate anything with You.'"

18438 - And from 'Utba bin 'Abd, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "If a man were to fall prostrate on his face from the day he was born until the day he dies of old age in seeking the pleasure of Allah the Almighty, he would certainly consider it insignificant on the Day of Resurrection."

18439 - On the authority of Mu'adh bin Jabal, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "If you wish, I shall inform you of the first thing that Allah—the Mighty and Sublime—will say to the believers on the Day of Resurrection, and the first thing they will say?" They said: "Yes." He said: "Indeed, Allah—the Mighty and Sublime—will say to the believers: 'Did you love meeting Me?' They will say: 'Yes, O our Lord.' He will say: 'Why?' They will say: 'We hoped for Your mercy and Your pardon.' He will say: 'Then My mercy has become due for you.'"

18440 - From 'Aisha, she said: "I said: O Messenger of Allah (pbuh), does the beloved remember his beloved on the Day of Resurrection? He said: 'O 'Aisha, as for three occasions, then no: as for at the Balance until it is known whether it becomes heavy or light, then no; as for at the flying of the records, whether one is given [his record] in his right hand or given it in his left hand, then no; and when a neck emerges from the Fire, coiling around them and closing in on them, and that neck says: "I have been entrusted with three, I have been entrusted with three: I have been entrusted with whoever claimed another deity alongside Allah, I have been entrusted with whoever does not believe in the Day of Account, and I have been entrusted with every stubborn tyrant." It then coils around them and hurls them into the depths of Hell. Hell has a bridge thinner than a hair and sharper than a sword, upon which are hooks and thorns that seize whomever Allah wills. People pass over it like a blink of an eye, like lightning, like the wind, and like fleet horses and mounts, while the angels say: "O Lord, grant safety! Grant safety!" Thus, some pass safely, some are scratched but safe, and some are toppled into the Fire on their faces.'" I [the author] say: A portion of it is with Abu Dawud.

18441 - And on the authority of Abu Bakrah, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "People will be carried upon the Bridge (as-Sirat) on the Day of Resurrection, and the two sides of the Bridge will cause them to tumble [into the Fire] just as moths tumble into the fire. Then Allah the Exalted will save, by His mercy, whom He wills." He said: "Then permission will be granted to the angels, the prophets, and the martyrs to intercede; so they will intercede and bring [people] out, and they will intercede and bring [people] out." Affan added once: "and they will intercede and bring out whoever had in his heart the weight of an atom of faith."

18442 - And on the authority of 'Abdullah bin 'Amr, from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), who said: "The slogan of my nation when they mount the Path is: 'O You besides whom there is no deity'."

18443 - And on the authority of Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, Allah - Mighty and Majestic - calls the people [on the Day of Resurrection] by their names as a concealment from Him over His servants. As for at the Path (al-Sirat), Allah - Mighty and Majestic - gives every believing man a light [and every believing woman a light], and every hypocrite a light. When they are leveled upon the Path, Allah strips away the light of the hypocritical men and hypocritical women. So the hypocrites say: {Wait for us that we may acquire some of your light} [Al-Hadid: 13], and the believers say: {Our Lord, perfect for us our light} [Al-Tahrim: 8]. At that moment, no one shall remember anyone else."

18444 - And from Abdullah bin Mas'ud, who said: "The Bridge (al-Sirat) is placed over the center of Hell, like the edge of a sharpened sword, slippery and precarious. Upon it are hooks of fire with which it snatches; one is caught and falls into it, and another is knocked down. Among them are those who pass like lightning, and it does not take long for them to be saved. Then [others pass] like the wind, and it does not take long for them to be saved. Then like the running of a horse, then like the running of a man, then like the brisk walking of a man, then like the walking of a man. Then the last of them will be a person, a man whom the Fire has overcome and who encountered hardship within it, until Allah admits him into Paradise by the virtue of His mercy. It is said to him: 'Wish and ask.' He says: 'O Lord, are You mocking me while You are the Lord of Might?!' It is said to him: 'Wish and ask,' until his wishes are exhausted. He [Allah] says: 'You shall have what you asked for and the like of it along with it.'"

18445 - And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: "And ten times its like along with it." I said: For Ibn Mas'ud and Abu Hurayrah, there are hadiths in the Sahih other than this that are attributed to the Prophet (pbuh).

18446 - And on the authority of Ya'la bin Munabbih, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "The Fire will say to the believer on the Day of Resurrection: 'Pass through, O believer, for your light has extinguished my flame.'"

18447 - And on the authority of Abu Sumaynah, who said: "We differed here concerning the approach (al-wurud). Some of us said: 'No believer shall enter it,' and some of them said: 'They will all enter it, then Allah will deliver those who feared Him.' So I met Jabir ibn Abd Allah and I said: 'We have differed here regarding that; some of us said: "No believer shall enter it," and some of us said: "They will all enter it?"' He gestured with his two fingers toward his ears and said: 'May they be deafened if I did not hear the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "The approach (al-wurud) is entry (al-dukhul); neither a righteous person nor a profligate will remain except that they enter it. It will be coolness and peace for the believers, just as it was for Abraham, until the Fire—or he said: Hell—will cry out from their coldness. Then Allah will deliver those who feared Him and leave the wrongdoers [therein]."' I said to Jabir: 'There is a narration in the Sahih which is mawquf (attributed to a companion) other than this one.'"

18448 - And on the authority of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The heat of Hell for my Ummah is only like the heat of the bathhouse."

18449 - And on the authority of Abu Umamah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "There shall certainly come upon Hell a day in which it is as if it were crops that have dried up and turned red, its gates flapping."

18450 - On the authority of Anas ibn Malik, who said: "I entered upon the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and he said: 'I have been given al-Kawthar.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, and what is al-Kawthar?' He said: 'A river in Paradise, its width and length are the distance between the east and the west. No one drinks from it and ever feels thirst, and no one performs ablution from it and ever becomes disheveled. He who violates my covenant or kills the members of my household shall not drink from it.'" I said: Anas has a narration in the Sahih regarding al-Kawthar other than this one.

18451 - And on the authority of Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "My Basin extends from such and such a distance to such and such. Within it are vessels as numerous as the stars. It is more fragrant in scent than musk, sweeter than honey, colder than snow, and whiter than milk. Whoever drinks a single draught from it shall never thirst again." I said: It is found in the Sahih in an abbreviated form.

18452 - And on the authority of Anas, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "O assembly of the Ansar, your meeting place is my Cistern."

18453 - And on the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, I have a river [extending] what is between Sana'a to Ayla; in it, the vessels are as the number of the stars. It is colder than ice, sweeter than honey, and whiter than milk. Whoever drinks a sip from it will never thirst thereafter, and whoever does not taste it will never be quenched forever."

18454 - And from 'Abdullah bin Buraydah, who said: 'Abdullah bin Ziyad doubted the Pond, so he sent to Zayd bin Arqam and asked him about the Pond, and he narrated to him an elegant Hadith that pleased him. He said to him: "Did you hear this from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh)?" He replied: "No, but my brother narrated it to me."

18455 - And from Yuhannis: that when Hamza bin Abd al-Muttalib arrived in Medina, he married Khawlah bint Qays bin Fahd al-Ansariyyah from the Banu al-Najjar. He said: And the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) used to visit Hamza in her house, and she would narrate hadiths from him (pbuh). She said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) came to us, so I said: "O Messenger of Allah, it has reached me from you that you narrate that on the Day of Resurrection you will have a Basin whose distance is between such-and-such and such-and-such?" He said: "Yes. And the most beloved of people to me to be quenched from it are your people." She said: So I presented to him a stone cooking pot containing a loaf of bread or Harizah, and the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) placed his hand in the pot to eat, and it burnt his fingers, so he said: "Hass." Then he said: "The son of Adam, if cold afflicts him, he says: 'Hass,' and if heat afflicts him, he says: 'Hass.'"

18456 - And from Khawlah bint Hakim, she said: "I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, do you indeed have a Basin?' He (pbuh) said: 'Yes, and the most beloved to me of those who shall come to it are your people.'"

And from Abdullah bin Mas'ud, he said: "The two sons of Mulaykah came to the Prophet (pbuh) and said: 'Our mother used to honor her husband, show compassion to her children, and provide hospitality to guests, but she buried a daughter alive during the Pre-Islamic period (Jahiliyyah)?' He said: 'Your mother is in the Fire.' They turned away, and sorrow was visible on their faces. Then he ordered that they be brought back—or they returned—and joy was visible on their faces, hoping that something [favorable] had occurred. He said: 'My mother is with your mother.' A man from the hypocrites said: 'This does not avail his mother anything, while we follow in his footsteps!' A man from the Ansar—and I never saw a man who asked the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) more questions than him—said: 'O Messenger of Allah, has He promised you regarding her or both of them?' He said: He [the Ansari] thought it was something he [the Prophet] had heard. He said: 'I have not asked my Lord, nor has He given me hope regarding her, but I shall stand in the Praiseworthy Station on the Day of Resurrection.' The Ansari said: 'O Messenger of Allah, and what is that Praiseworthy Station?' He said: 'That is when you are brought barefoot, naked, and uncircumcised. The first to be clothed will be Ibrahim (pbuh). He [Allah] will say: "Clothe My friend," so two white garments will be brought and he will wear them, then he will sit facing the Throne. Then my clothing will be brought and I will wear it, and I will stand on his right in a station that no one else but I shall occupy, for which the former and latter generations will envy me.' He said: 'And a river from Al-Kawthar will be opened to the Basin.' The hypocrite said: 'Water never flows except over silt or pebbles.' He said: 'Its silt is musk, and its pebbles are pearls.' The hypocrite said: 'I have never heard the like of today; water rarely flows over silt or pebbles unless it has vegetation.' The Ansari said: 'O Messenger of Allah, does it have vegetation?' He said: 'Yes, branches of gold.' The hypocrite said: 'I have never heard the like of today; rarely does a branch grow and leaf out unless it has fruit.' The Ansari said: 'O Messenger of Allah, is there fruit?' He said: 'Yes, colors of jewels. Its water is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey. Whoever drinks a draught from it will never thirst thereafter, and whoever is deprived of it will never be quenched thereafter.'"

18458 - And from Abu Umamah: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, Allah promised me that He would enter seventy thousand from my nation into Paradise without reckoning." Then Yazid [ibn] al-Akhnas said: "By Allah, those in your nation are but like the reddish-brown fly among flies." So the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, my Lord—Mighty and Majestic is He—has promised me seventy thousand, and with every thousand, seventy thousand, and He has added for me three handfuls." He asked: "And what is the extent of your Basin, O Prophet of Allah?" He said: "Between Aden and Amman, and wider, and wider," gesturing with his hand. He said: "In it are two spouts of gold and silver." He asked: "What is your Basin [like], O Prophet of Allah?" He said: "Whiter than milk, and sweeter [in taste] than honey, and more pleasant in fragrance than musk. Whoever drinks from it shall never thirst thereafter, and his face shall never turn black."

And from Usama bin Zaid: That the Prophet (pbuh) came to Hamza bin Abdul-Muttalib one day but did not find him. He asked his wife about him—and she was from Banu al-Najjar—and she said: "He went out, may my father be sacrificed for you, heading towards you; it seems he missed you in one of the alleys of Banu al-Najjar. Will you not enter, O Messenger of Allah?" So he entered, and she presented him with Hais, and he ate from it. She then said: "O Messenger of Allah, may it be wholesome and pleasant for you. You have come while I was intending to come to you to congratulate you and wish you joy, for Abu 'Umara informed me that you have been given a river in Paradise called al-Kawthar." He said: "Yes, and its open space consists of rubies, coral, chrysolite, and pearls." She said: "I would love for you to describe your Basin to me in a description I hear from you." He said: "It is between Ayla and Sana'a, containing pitchers like the number of stars, and the most beloved of those who come to it to me are your people, O daughter of Hamd"—meaning the Ansar. I say: Perhaps it is: "O daughter of Qahd."

18460 - And from Hudhayfa bin Asid al-Ghifari: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "O people, I am your predecessor at the Pond, and you will come to me at the Pond. My Pond's width is as the distance between Sana'a and Busra, and in it are cups of gold and silver equal to the number of stars. I shall question you when you come to me about the two weighty things, so look to how you succeed me regarding them: the greater weight is the Book of Allah, Mighty and Majestic—a cord, one end of which is in the hand of Allah and the other end is in your hands; so hold fast to it, and do not go astray nor change. And [the second is] my progeny, the people of my house; for indeed, the All-Knowing, the All-Aware has informed me that they shall never separate until they return to me at the Pond."

18461 - And on the authority of Samurah bin Jundub: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, the Prophets will boast to one another as to which of them has the greatest number of followers from his nation. I hope that on that day, I will be the one with the most followers coming to me among them all. Indeed, every man among them on that day will be standing over a full basin, with a staff in his hand, calling those he recognizes from his nation; and for every nation, there is a mark by which their Prophet recognizes them."

18462 - And on the authority of Sahl bin Sa'd, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I am your predecessor at the Fountain; whoever reaches me and drinks shall never thirst again. [Behold], there shall surely come to me groups of people whom I recognize with [certain] recognition, then a barrier shall be placed between me and them."

18463 - And from him, that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, for everyone there is a forerunner, and I am your forerunner at the Basin. So whoever comes to me at the Basin and drinks shall never thirst, and whoever never thirsts shall enter Paradise."

18464 - And on the authority of Abu Sa'id — meaning al-Khudri — who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "What is the matter with men who say: 'Indeed, the kinship of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) does not benefit his people?' Nay, by Allah, indeed my kinship is connected in this world and the Hereafter. And indeed, O people, I shall be your predecessor at the Basin, and when you come, a man will say: 'O Messenger of Allah, I am so-and-so, son of so-and-so,' and another will say: 'I am so-and-so, son of so-and-so.' Then I will say: 'As for the lineage, I have recognized it, but you have introduced innovations after me and turned back on your heels.'"

And from Ibn 'Abbas who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "I am your predecessor at the Basin, so whoever arrives at it shall succeed. However, groups of people will be brought and taken towards the left side, so I will say: 'O Lord!', whereupon it will be said: 'They continued to turn back on their heels after you [left them].'"

18466 - And from Jabir bin Abdullah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I am at the Basin, watching who comes to me." He said: "Then some people from among my own will be taken, so I will say: 'O Lord, my nation! My nation!'" He said: "Then it will be said: 'And what do you know of what they did after you? They did not cease to turn back on their heels after you.'" Jabir said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The Basin is a month's journey, and its corners are equal—meaning: its width is like its length—and its vessels are like the stars of the sky. It is more pleasant in scent than musk, and whiter than milk. Whoever drinks from it will never thirst thereafter."

18467 - And from him: that he heard the Prophet (pbuh) say: "I am your forerunner ahead of you. So if you do not see me, then I am at the Basin, [the size of] the distance between Ayla and Mecca. Men and women will come with water-skins and vessels, but they will not taste anything."

18468 - And on the authority of Samurah—meaning Ibn Jundub—who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "A group of people from among those who were with me will come to me. When they raise their heads to me, they will be snatched away before reaching me. I will certainly say: 'My companions! My companions!' Then it will be said: 'Indeed, you do not know what they innovated after you.'"

18469 - And from Abu Bakrah: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Men from among those who accompanied me [and saw me] shall indeed come to me at the Pool, until when they are raised up to me and I see them, they are snatched away before reaching me. So I shall say: 'O Lord, my companions, my companions!' It will then be said: 'Indeed, you do not know what they innovated after you.'"

And on the authority of Abu al-Darda, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I shall certainly find that some of you are being pulled away from me at the Basin, so I will say: 'They are people from among my companions.' It will then be said: 'Indeed, you do not know what they introduced after you.'" Abu al-Darda said: "O Messenger of Allah, supplicate to Allah that He does not make me one of them." He said: "You are not among them."

And on the authority of Abu Mas'ud, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "Men from among my companions will surely be raised up to me, until when I see them, they are snatched away from me. Then I will say: 'My companions!' But it will be said: 'Indeed, you do not know what they introduced after you.'"

18472 - And from Jabir bin Abdullah: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I am your predecessor at the Basin, and I will boast of your numbers before the other nations; so do not return after me as disbelievers, striking the necks of one another." A man said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is its width?" He said: "What is between Ayla—I think he said—to Mecca. In it are drinking vessels more numerous than the number of the stars; no believer takes one of them and puts it down from his hand until another takes it."

And from al-Farazdaq, he said: Abu Hurayrah said to me: "O Farazdaq, I see that you have small feet, so if it is possible for you to ensure that they have a place at the Basin, then do so; for I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: 'My Basin is the distance between Amman and Ayla; its water is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey; its vessels are as numerous as the stars in the sky; whoever drinks from it shall never thirst again.'"

18474 - And in a narration: "Indeed, I have a pond to which my nation shall come to me, as the distance between Sana'a and Yathrib."

18475 - And on the authority of Anas bin Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, I have a Basin, and I shall be your precursor to it."

18476 - And on the authority of al-Irbad ibn Sariyah, that the Prophet (pbuh) said: "This nation will surely crowd at the Basin like the crowding of camels that have arrived for water on the fifth day."

18477 - And from Ibn Umar: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "My Basin is as the distance between Aden and Amman; it is colder than snow, sweeter than honey, and more fragrant than musk. Its cups are like the stars of the sky. Whoever drinks a sip from it shall never thirst thereafter. The first of the people to arrive at it are the destitute of the Emigrants." Someone among them asked: "Who are they, O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Those with disheveled heads, haggard faces, and soiled clothes; for whom doors are not opened, and who do not marry women of luxury; those who give all that is required of them, and do not take all that is due to them."

And on the authority of Abu Umamah al-Bahili, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "My Basin is as [the distance] between Aden and Amman, in it are drinking vessels as numerous as the stars of the sky; whoever drinks from it shall never thirst thereafter. And among those of my nation who shall come to me at it are those with disheveled hair and soiled clothes, who do not marry pampered women, and do not attend the gates—meaning the doors of the rulers—those who give all that is due from them, but are not given all that is due to them."

And from Thawban, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "My Basin, I shall drive the people away from it for the people of my household; I shall indeed strike them with this staff of mine until they disperse." I said: Then he mentioned the Hadith, and it is in the Sahih except for his saying: "for the people of my household."

18480 - And on the authority of Buraidah, from the Prophet (pbuh): that he mentioned the Basin and said: "You will see in it pitchers [as numerous as] the number of the stars of the sky."

18481 - And on the authority of Anas: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I was given Al-Kawthar, so I struck it with my hand and behold, it was pungent musk; and its pebbles were pearls; and its banks—I think he said—were domes flowing over the ground, not being split." I say: Anas has narrations in the Sahih regarding the Basin in a context other than this.

And on the authority of Ibn ‘Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "My Basin is the distance of a month's journey; its corners are equal; its vessels are as numerous as the stars of heaven; its water is whiter than snow, sweeter than honey, and more fragrant than musk. Whoever drinks a single draught from it will never thirst again thereafter."

18483 - And from Abu Barzah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: "My cistern is [the distance] between Ayla and Sana'a; its width is equal to its length. Two spouts [flowing] from Paradise pour into it, one of which is of silver and the other of gold. It is whiter than milk, sweeter than honey, and colder than snow. Its vessels are as numerous as the stars of the sky. Whoever drinks from it will not thirst until he enters Paradise." I said: He has another Hadith concerning the mention of the cistern in Abu Dawud.

18484 - And on the authority of Al-Bara' ibn 'Azib, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "My Basin is the distance between Aylah and Sanaa. It has two spouts: one of gold and the other of silver. Its vessels are as numerous as the stars of the sky. It is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey, and its scent is more pleasant than musk. Whoever drinks from it shall never thirst again."

18485 - And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah and Jabir ibn 'Abdullah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Ali ibn Abi Talib is the master of my Basin on the Day of Resurrection. In it are cups as numerous as the stars of the sky, and the expanse of my Basin is the distance between al-Jabiyah and Sana'a."

On the authority of Abdullah bin 'Amr: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), during the year of the Battle of Tabuk, stood at night to pray, and a group of men from his companions gathered behind him to guard him, until when he had prayed and turned toward them, he said to them: "I have been granted tonight five things that no one before me was granted. As for me, I have been sent to all of mankind collectively, whereas he who was before me was only sent to his own people. I have been supported against the enemy with awe, so that even if there were a month's journey between me and them, they would be filled with awe because of it. The spoils of war have been made lawful for me to eat, whereas those before me considered eating them a grave matter, as they used to burn them. The earth has been made for me a place of prayer and a means of purification; wherever the time of prayer reaches me, I perform dry ablution and pray, whereas those before me considered that a grave matter, for they only used to pray in their churches and synagogues. And the fifth is what it is; it was said to me: 'Ask, for every prophet has already asked,' so I delayed my request until the Day of Resurrection for it; it is for you and for whoever bears witness that there is no god but Allah."

18487 - And on the authority of 'Ubadah bin al-Samit, who said: The companions of the Prophet (pbuh) lost him, and whenever they halted, they used to place him in their center. They became terrified and thought that Allah Almighty had chosen for him companions other than themselves. Then, they suddenly saw the silhouette of the Prophet (pbuh), so they proclaimed the Takbir when they saw him. They said: "O Messenger of Allah, we feared that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, had chosen for you companions other than us." The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "No. Rather, you are my companions in this world and the hereafter. Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, awakened me and said: 'O Muhammad, I have not sent any prophet or messenger except that he has asked Me for a request and I granted it to him. So ask, O Muhammad, and you shall be given.' I said: 'My request is the intercession for my nation on the Day of Resurrection.'" Abu Bakr said: "O Messenger of Allah, and what is the intercession?" He said: "I will say: 'O Lord, my intercession which I had stored with You,' and the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, will say: 'Yes.' Then my Lord, Mighty and Majestic, will bring out the remainder of my nation from the Fire and admit them into Paradise."

And from Mu'adh bin Jabal and Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with them both), who said: "The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) used to, whenever he stayed at a place, have the Muhajirun stay closest to him. He said: We stayed at a place, and the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) slept, and so did we. He said: Then Mu'adh and I woke up during the night, and we looked but did not see him. He said: So we went out seeking him, when we heard a humming sound like the grinding of millstones, and suddenly he approached. When he approached, he looked and said: 'What is the matter with you?' They said: 'We woke up and did not see you where you were, and we feared that something might have happened to you; so we came seeking you.' He said: 'A visitor came to me in my sleep and gave me the choice between having half of my nation enter Paradise or the intercession, and I chose the intercession for them.' We said: 'We ask you by the right of Islam and by the right of companionship to include us in your intercession,' so he supplicated for them. He said: Then the people gathered around him and said the same as we had said, and the people became numerous, so he said: 'Indeed, I am making my intercession for whoever dies without associating anything with Allah.'"

18489 - And in a narration by Ahmad: They both said, "Supplicate to Allah, O Messenger of Allah (pbuh), to include us in your intercession." He (pbuh) replied, "You and whoever dies without associating anything with Allah are included in my intercession."

And on the authority of Abu Musa, who said: "We went on a military expedition with the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) during one of his travels. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) stopped with us to rest at the end of the night, and during part of the night, I went to the resting place of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) [seeking him], but I did not find him. So I went out seeking him in the open, and behold, there was a man from the companions of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) seeking what I was seeking. He said: While we were in that state, the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) headed towards us. He said: So we said: 'O Messenger of Allah, you are in a land of war, and we do not feel safe for you. If a need arose for you, would that you had told some of your companions so they could have stood with you.' The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: 'Indeed, I heard a humming like the humming of a millstone and a buzzing like the buzzing of bees. Then a visitor came to me from my Lord and gave me the choice between having one-third of my nation enter Paradise and intercession. So I chose intercession for them, for I knew it would be more encompassing for them.' He said: So the two of them said: 'O Messenger of Allah, supplicate to Allah to make us among the people of your intercession.' So he supplicated for them. Then they both reached the companions of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and informed them of what the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) had said. He said: So they began coming to him and saying: 'O Messenger of Allah, supplicate to Allah to make us among the people of your intercession,' and he would supplicate for them. When the people crowded around him and became numerous, the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: 'It is for whoever dies while testifying that there is no deity but Allah.'"

18491 - And in a narration with him: We traveled until we were close to dawn, then he dismounted, and we gathered around him, for that is what we used to do. He hobbled his she-camel, then placed his cheek on its hobble, then slept, and we dispersed. Then I raised my head and suddenly I could not see him in his place, which alarmed me. So I stood up, and suddenly I heard a sound like the grinding of a millstone coming from the direction of the valley. Just then, the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) arrived appearing joyful. [He said]: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, where were you?" He said: "It seems it alarmed you when you did not see me in my place?" I said: "Yes, by Allah, it certainly alarmed me!" He said: "Gabriel (peace be upon him) came to me just now and gave me the choice between intercession and that half of my Ummah should be forgiven, so I chose intercession." The people then rose towards him and said: "O Messenger of Allah, intercede for us." He said: "My intercession is for you." When they pressed him further, he said: "Whoever meets Allah testifying that there is no god but Allah shall enter Paradise."

And from Mus'ab al-Aslami, who said: "A young boy from among us set out and came to the Prophet (pbuh) and said: 'I am asking you a question.' He said: 'And what is it?' He said: 'I ask you to make me among those for whom you will intercede on the Day of Resurrection.' He said: 'Who commanded you to do this?' or 'Who taught you this?' or 'Who directed you to this?' He said: 'No one commanded me to do it except myself.' He said: 'Then you are indeed among those for whom I shall intercede on the Day of Resurrection.' [The boy departed joyfully to inform his family, but as he turned away, he (pbuh) said: 'Bring the boy back to me.' They brought him back, and he looked dejected out of fear that something had occurred. He (pbuh) said: 'Help me concerning yourself by performing frequent prostrations.']"

18493 - And from 'Awf ibn Malik al-Ashja'i, he said: "We traveled with the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) on a journey, [and we halted] until when it was night, my eyes were restless and sleep did not come to me. So I stood up and behold, there was no beast in the camp except that it had placed its cheek upon the ground, and I perceived the occurrence of everything within myself [as clearly as] the position of the rear of the saddle. I said: 'I shall surely go to the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and guard him tonight until I reach the morning.' I went out, passing through the saddles until I reached the saddle of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), but behold, he was not at his saddle. I went out, passing through the saddles until I left the camp, and suddenly I saw a dark figure, so I headed towards that darkness, and behold, it was Abu Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah and Mu'adh ibn Jabal. They said to me: 'What brought you out?' I said: 'The same thing that brought you both out.' Suddenly, we were near a thicket not far from us, so we walked to the thicket, and behold, we heard therein a sound like the humming of bees and the rustling of winds. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: 'Is Abu Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah here?' We said: 'Yes.' He said: 'And Mu'adh ibn Jabal?' We said: 'Yes.' He said: 'And 'Awf ibn Malik?' We said: 'Yes.' Then the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) came out to us; we did not ask him about anything, and he did not ask us about anything, until he returned to his saddle. Then he said: 'Shall I not inform you of what my Lord gave me the choice of just now?' We said: 'Indeed, O Messenger of Allah.' He said: 'He gave me the choice between having two-thirds of my Ummah enter Paradise without reckoning or punishment, and the Intercession.' We said: 'O Messenger of Allah, which did you choose?' He said: 'I chose the Intercession.' We all said: 'O Messenger of Allah, make us among the people of your intercession.' He said: 'Indeed, my intercession is for every Muslim.'"

18494 - And in a narration: On the authority of 'Awf also, who said: "We stopped at a lodging place with the Messenger of Allah (pbuh). I woke up during the night and I did not see anything in the camp taller than the rear part of a camel-saddle, as every person and his camel were clinging to the ground. So I stood up and made my way through until I reached the sleeping place of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), and behold, he was not in it. I placed my hand on the bedding and it was cold. So I stood up, making my way through the people, saying: 'To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return.'" Then he mentioned the like of it, except that he said: "He gave me the choice between admitting half of my nation into Paradise..."

18495 - And in a narration: He placed Abu Musa in the place of Abu 'Ubaydah.

18496 - And on the authority of Abu Ka'b, the silk merchant, who said: I asked al-Nadr ibn Anas, saying: "Narrate to me a hadith by which Allah - Mighty and Majestic - may benefit me." He replied: "Yes. I will narrate to you a hadith that was written to us from Medina." Anas said: "Memorize this, for it is from the treasure of hadith." He said: "The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) went out on a military expedition and marched that day until nightfall. When night came, he halted, and the people encamped around him. He slept, along with Abu Talhah—the husband of Umm Sulaym—and so-and-so and so-and-so, four in total. The Prophet (pbuh) used the foreleg of his mount as a pillow and then slept, and the four slept beside him. When a portion of the night had passed, they raised their heads and did not find the Prophet (pbuh) by his mount. They went searching for the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and met him as he was returning. They said: 'May Allah make us your ransom! Where were you? We were alarmed for you when we did not see you.' The Prophet (pbuh) said: 'I was sleeping where you saw me, then I heard in my sleep a drone like the droning of a millstone—or the vibration of a millstone. I was startled in my sleep, so I leapt up and went forth. Gabriel (peace be upon him) met me and said: "O Muhammad, Allah has sent me to you at this hour to give you a choice: either half of your Ummah shall enter Paradise, or the Intercession on the Day of Resurrection." So I chose the Intercession for my Ummah.' The group of four said: 'O Messenger of Allah, make us among those for whom you will intercede.' He said: 'It is granted to you.' Then the Prophet (pbuh) and the group of four proceeded until ten people met him and said: 'Where is our Prophet, the Prophet of Mercy?' He narrated to them what he had narrated to the first group. They said: 'May Allah make us your ransom! Make us among those for whom you will intercede on the Day of Resurrection.' He said: 'It is granted to you.' They then came together to the main body of the people and called out among the people: 'This is our Prophet, the Prophet of Mercy.' He narrated to them what he had narrated to the previous groups. They all called out: 'May Allah make us your ransom! May Allah make us among those for whom you will intercede.' Then he called out three times: 'I call Allah to witness, and I call to witness whoever hears me: that my intercession is for whoever dies without associating anything with Allah - Mighty and Majestic - as a partner.'"

18497 - And from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi 'Uqayl, who said: "I set out in a delegation to the Messenger of Allah (pbuh). We reached him and knelt our mounts at the door; at that time, there was no one among people more hated by us than the man we were entering upon. However, we did not leave until there was no one among people more beloved to us than the man we had entered upon. One of us said: 'O Messenger of Allah, why did you not ask your Lord for a kingdom like the kingdom of Solomon?' He (pbuh) laughed and then said: 'Perhaps your companion has with Allah that which is better than the kingdom of Solomon. Indeed, Allah never sent a prophet except that He granted him a supplication; among them were those who used it for their worldly life and were granted it, and among them were those who invoked it against their people when they disobeyed them and they were destroyed by it. Verily, Allah gave me a supplication and I have reserved it with my Lord as intercession for my nation on the Day of Resurrection.'"

18498 - And on the authority of Abu Sa'id, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Every prophet has been granted a gift which he has already claimed, but I have reserved my gift as intercession for my nation."

18499 - And from Abu Dharr, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I have been given five things that were not given to anyone before me: the earth has been made for me a means of purification and a place of prayer, the spoils of war have been made lawful for me and they were not lawful for any prophet before me, I have been supported by terror for a distance of a month's journey against my enemy, I have been sent to every red and black person, and I have been granted intercession, and it shall be attained by those of my nation who do not associate anything with Allah."

18500 - And from Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I have been given five things that no prophet before me was given: I have been sent to the red and the black, whereas those before me were sent only to their own people; the earth has been made for me a place of prayer and a means of purification; I have been aided by terror for a distance of a month's journey ahead of me; spoils of war have been made lawful for me, and they were not lawful for anyone before me; and I have been given the intercession, which I have deferred for my nation, and it shall reach whoever does not associate anything with Allah."

18501 - And on the authority of Umm Salama, she said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I saw what my nation would do after me, so I chose for them intercession on the Day of Resurrection."

On the authority of Abdullah bin Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "A man continues to beg from people until he comes on the Day of Resurrection without a single piece of flesh on his face." And he said: "Indeed, the sun will draw near on the Day of Resurrection until the sweat reaches halfway up the ears. While they are in that state, they will seek help from Adam (pbuh), and he will say: 'I am not the one for that.' Then from Musa (pbuh), and he will say the same. Then from Muhammad (pbuh), and he will intercede, and Allah will judge between the creation. Then he will walk until he takes hold of the ring of Paradise; on that day, Allah will raise him to a Praiseworthy Station for which all the people of the gathering will praise him."

And from Salman, who said: "On the Day of Resurrection, the sun will be given the heat of ten years, then it will be brought close to the skulls of the people." He said: Then he mentioned the hadith. He said: "So they will come to the Prophet (pbuh) and say: 'O Prophet of Allah, you are the one through whom Allah granted victory, and He has forgiven your past and future sins. You see the state we are in, so intercede for us with your Lord.' He will say: 'I am your man.' Then he will go out, herding the people until he reaches the gate of Paradise. He will take hold of a golden ring on the gate and knock. It will be said: 'Who is this?' He will say: 'Muhammad.' Then it will be opened for him until he stands before Allah (the Mighty and Majestic) and prostrates. Then a call will be made: 'Raise your head; ask and you shall be given, and intercede and your intercession shall be accepted.' That is the Praiseworthy Station."

18504 - And from Abu Nadhrah who said: I heard Ibn Abbas preaching on the pulpit of Basra, saying: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, there has never been a prophet except that he had a supplication which he had fulfilled in this world, but I have hidden my supplication as intercession for my nation on the Day of Resurrection. I am the master of the children of Adam, and I say this without pride; and I am the first for whom the earth will split open, and I say this without pride; in my hand is the Banner of Praise, and Adam and everyone below him will be under my banner, and I say this without pride. The Day of Resurrection will be prolonged for the people and will become so severe that they will say to one another: 'Take us to Adam, the father of humanity, so that he may intercede for us with our Lord, that He may judge between us.' They will go to Adam and say: 'O Adam, intercede for us with your Lord, that He may judge between us.' Adam will say: 'I am not the one for that; I was expelled from Paradise because of my sin, and today nothing concerns me except myself. Rather, go to Noah.' They will go to Noah and say: 'O Noah, intercede for us with your Lord, that He may judge between us.' He will say: 'I am not the one for you; I made a supplication that drowned the inhabitants of the earth, and today nothing concerns me except myself. Rather, go to Abraham, the Intimate Friend of the Most Merciful.' They will go to Abraham—peace be upon him—and say: 'O Abraham, intercede for us with your Lord, that He may judge between us.' He will say: 'I am not the one for you; I told three lies in the cause of Islam'—referring to his saying: 'Indeed, I am ill' and his saying: 'Rather, this largest of them did it'—'By Allah, he only intended by them to honor the religion of Allah.'—'And today nothing concerns me except myself. Rather, go to Moses, a servant whom Allah chose for His message and with whom He spoke.' They will go to Moses and say: 'O Moses, intercede for us with your Lord, that He may judge between us.' He will say: 'I am not the one for you; I killed a soul, and today nothing concerns me except myself. Rather, go to Jesus, the Spirit of Allah and His Word.' They will go to Jesus and say: 'O Jesus, intercede for us with your Lord, that He may judge between us.' He will say: 'I am not the one for you; I was taken as a god besides Allah, and today nothing concerns me except myself. Do you think that if a commodity were in a sealed container, one could reach what is inside until the seal is broken?' They will say: 'No.' He will say: 'Indeed, Muhammad (pbuh) is the Seal of the Prophets, and he is present, and Allah has forgiven him his past and future sins.' They will come to me and say: 'O Muhammad, intercede for us with your Lord, that He may judge between us.' I will say: 'I am the one for it, until Allah grants permission to whomever He wills and is pleased with.' When Allah intends to judge between His creation, a caller will cry out: 'Where is Ahmad and his nation? Where is Ahmad and his nation?' They will come, and we are the first and the last; the last to be sent and the last to be reckoned. The nations will make way for us on our path, and we will pass through, bright-faced and with radiant limbs from the traces of purification. The nations will say: 'This nation was almost all prophets.'"

18505 - And from Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I shall knock at the gate of Paradise, and a gate of gold and a ring of silver shall be opened for me. Then the Greatest Light shall meet me, and I will fall down in prostration. I will offer such praise to Allah as no one before me has offered. It will then be said to me: 'Raise your head; ask and you shall be given; speak and you shall be heard; and intercede, for your intercession shall be accepted.' I will say: 'My Ummah,' and it will be said [to me]: 'For you is whoever had in his heart the weight of a barley grain of faith.'" He said: "Then I will prostrate a second time." He said: "Then I will offer the like of that, and the like of that will be said to me, and I will say: 'My Ummah!' and it will be said: 'For you is whoever had in his heart the weight of a mustard seed of faith.' Then I will prostrate a third time, and the like of that will be said to me. Then I will raise my head and say: 'My Ummah,' and it will be said [to me]: 'For you is whoever said "There is no god but Allah" sincerely.'" I say: Anas has narrations in the Sahih other than this one.

18506 - And on the authority of Anas, who said: The Prophet of Allah (pbuh) narrated to me: "Indeed, I shall be standing, waiting for my Ummah as they cross the Bridge (as-Sirat), when Jesus (pbuh) will come." He said: "Then he [Jesus] will say: 'These prophets have come to you, O Muhammad; they are asking you'—or he said: 'they are gathering with you'—'praying to Allah to separate between all the nations to wherever He wills, because of the distress they are in.' For the creation will be bridled in sweat; as for the believer, it will be like a common cold for him, but as for the disbeliever, death will envelop him." He said: "Jesus said: 'Wait until I return to you.'" He [the Prophet] said: "The Prophet of Allah (pbuh) then went and stood beneath the Throne, and he met [with such honor] as no chosen angel nor any sent prophet had ever met. Then Allah revealed to Gabriel (pbuh): 'Go to Muhammad and say to him: Raise your head; ask and you shall be given, and intercede and your intercession shall be accepted.'" He said: "So I was granted intercession for my Ummah, to bring out one person from every ninety-nine." He said: "And I continued to return to my Lord—Mighty and Majestic—and I did not stand in any station before Him except that I was granted intercession, until Allah granted me from that [to the extent] that He said: '[O Muhammad], admit from your Ummah among Allah’s creation whoever testified that there is no god but Allah on even a single day with sincerity, and died upon that.'"

18507 - And from Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, he said: One day, the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) woke up and performed the morning prayer, then he sat until the forenoon (Duha) when the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) laughed. Then he remained in his place until he performed the first prayer (Zuhr), al-Asr, and al-Maghrib, all while not speaking, until he performed the final Isha prayer. Then he stood and went to his house. The people said to Abu Bakr: "Will you not ask the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) what his matter was? He did something today that he has never done before!" So he asked him, and he said: "Yes. There was presented to me what is to occur of the affairs of this world and the affairs of the Hereafter. The first and the last of generations were gathered on a single plain, and the people were so distressed by that that they went to Adam (pbuh) while the sweat was almost bridling them. They said: 'O Adam, you are the father of humanity, and Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) chose you; intercede for us with our Lord.' He said: 'I have encountered the likes of what you have encountered. Go to your father after your father, to Noah: {Indeed, Allah chose Adam and Noah and the family of Abraham and the family of 'Imran over the worlds} [Al-Imran: 33].'" He said: "So they go to Noah (pbuh) and say: 'Intercede for us with our Lord, for Allah chose you, answered your supplication, and did not leave a single inhabitant among the disbelievers upon the earth.' He says: 'I cannot do that for you. Go to Abraham (pbuh), for Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) took him as an intimate friend.' So they go to Abraham and he says: 'I cannot do that for you. Go to Moses (pbuh), for Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) spoke to him directly.' Moses (pbuh) says: 'I cannot do that for you, but go to Jesus son of Mary (pbuh), for he used to heal the blind and the leper and revive the dead.' Jesus (pbuh) says: 'I cannot do that for you. Go to Muhammad (pbuh) so that he may intercede for you with your Lord (the Mighty and Sublime).'" He said: "So they go, and the Prophet (pbuh) comes to his Lord and falls down prostrate for the duration of a week. Then He (the Mighty and Sublime) says: 'Raise your head; speak and you shall be heard, and intercede and your intercession shall be accepted.'" He said: "So he raises his head, and when he looks at his Lord (the Mighty and Sublime), he falls down prostrate for the duration of another week. Then Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) says: 'Raise your head; speak and you shall be heard, and intercede and your intercession shall be accepted.'" He said: "Then he goes to fall prostrate again, but Gabriel (pbuh) takes him by his upper arms, and Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) opens for him a supplication such as He has never opened for any human. He says: 'O Lord, You created me as the master of the children of Adam—and I say this without pride—and the first for whom the earth will split open on the Day of Resurrection—and I say this without pride—until more people shall arrive at my Basin than the distance between Sana'a and Ayla. Then it will be said: "Call the truthful ones (Siddiqin) so they may intercede for whoever they wish."'" He said: "Then when the martyrs (Shuhada) have done that, Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) says: 'I am the Most Merciful of those who show mercy. Admit into My Paradise whoever did not associate anything with Me.'" He said: "So they enter Paradise. Then Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) says: 'Look into the Fire; do you find anyone who has ever done any good?'" He said: "They will find a man in the Fire and they will say: 'Have you ever done any good?' He will say: 'No, except that I used to be lenient with people in selling and buying.' So Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) will say: 'Be lenient with My servant as he was lenient with My servants.' Then they will bring out from the Fire a man, and He will say to him: 'Have you ever done any good?' He will say: 'No, except that I commanded my children that when I die, they should burn me with fire, then grind me until I am like kohl, then take me to the sea and scatter me in the wind. For by Allah, the Lord of the worlds will never be able to capture me.' So Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) said to him: 'Why did you do that?' He said: 'Out of fear of You!'" He said: "So Allah (the Mighty and Sublime) says: 'Look at the kingdom of the greatest king; you shall have the likes of it and ten times more.' He said: 'So the man says: "Are You mocking me while You are the King?!"' He (the Prophet) said: 'And that is what I laughed at during the forenoon (Duha).'"

١٨٥٠٨ - And from Abu Ayyub: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) went out one day to them and said to them: "Indeed, my Lord - Mighty and Majestic - gave me the choice between seventy thousand who shall enter Paradise by pardon without being called to account, and the hidden treasure with Him for my nation." Some of his companions said to him: "O Messenger of Allah, does your Lord hide that?" Then the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) entered, then he came out while proclaiming the greatness of Allah and said: "Indeed, my Lord has added for me, with every thousand, seventy thousand, and the hidden treasure is with Him." Abu Ruhm then said: "O Abu Ayyub, what do you think is the hidden treasure of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh)?" The people then assailed him with their words and said: "Who are you to ask about the hidden treasure of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh)?!" Abu Ayyub said: "Leave him; I shall inform you about the hidden treasure of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) as I suspect, or rather as one who is certain: Verily, the hidden treasure of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) is that he says: 'O Lord, whoever testifies that there is no god but Allah alone, without partner, and that Muhammad is His servant and His messenger, his tongue confirming what is in his heart, then admit him into Paradise.'"

18509 - And from Jabir bin ‘Abdullah, who said: The family of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) had a female servant who served him, called Barrah. A man met her and said: "O Barrah, cover your tresses, for indeed Muhammad will not avail you anything against Allah." She informed the Prophet (pbuh), so he came out dragging his cloak, his cheeks flushed with redness. We—the community of the Ansar—recognized his anger by the dragging of his cloak and the redness of his cheeks. We took up arms and then came to him, saying: "O Messenger of Allah, command us with whatever you wish. By the One Who sent you with the truth, if you were to command us regarding our mothers, our fathers, and our children, we would surely carry out your word concerning them." He then ascended the pulpit, praised Allah, extolled Him, and said: "Who am I?" We said: "You are the Messenger of Allah." He said: "Yes, but who am I?" We said: "You are Muhammad bin ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abdul-Muttalib bin Hashim bin ‘Abd Manaf." He said: "I am the master of the children of Adam, and I say this without pride; I am the first for whom the earth will split open, and I say this without pride; and I am the first to enter Paradise, and I say this without pride. What is the matter with people who claim that my kinship is of no benefit? It is not as they claim; indeed, I shall intercede and my intercession will be accepted, until even the one for whom I intercede shall intercede and his intercession will be accepted, to the point that even Iblis will stretch himself out [in hope] for intercession."

18510 - And on the authority of Uqbah ibn 'Amir, from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), who said: "When Allah gathers the first and the last generations and judges between them, and finishes the judgment between them, the believers will say: 'Our Lord has judged between us, and we desire someone to intercede for us with our Lord. Let us go to Adam, for he is our father; Allah created him with His hand and spoke to him.' So they will come to him and speak to him to intercede for them, and he will say: 'You should go to Noah.' They will come to Noah, and he will direct them to Abraham. They will come to Abraham, and he will direct them to Moses. They will come to Moses, and he will direct them to Jesus. Then they will come to Jesus, and he will say: 'I shall direct you to the Unlettered Prophet.' So they will come to me, and Allah will permit me to stand up. Then my place of standing will exude the most pleasant fragrance anyone has ever smelled, until I come to my Lord - Glorified and Exalted is He - and He will grant me intercession and bestow upon me light from the hair of my head to the nail of my toe. Then the disbelievers will say: 'The believers have found someone to intercede for them, so who will intercede for us?' They will say: 'There is none other than Iblis, for he is the one who led us astray.' So they will come to him, and he will stand up, and his place of standing will exude the foulest stench anyone has ever smelled. Then he will lead them into Hell, and at that moment he will say: 'And Satan will say when the matter has been concluded: Indeed, Allah had promised you the promise of truth. And I promised you, but I betrayed you.'"

And on the authority of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "There will enter the Fire from the people of this Qiblah those whose number none but Allah can count, for having disobeyed Allah, having dared to commit acts of disobedience against Him, and having opposed His obedience. Then I shall be granted permission to intercede, and I will praise Allah while prostrating just as I praise Him while standing. Then it will be said: 'Raise your head; ask, and you shall be given; and intercede, and your intercession shall be accepted.'"

And from 'Ubadah—meaning Ibn al-Samit—that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "By the One in Whose hand is my soul, I am indeed the leader of mankind on the Day of Resurrection, without pride or ostentation. There is no one among mankind but that he is beneath my banner on the Day of Resurrection, waiting for relief. Indeed, I have with me the Banner of Praise; I shall walk and the people shall walk with me until I come to the gate of Paradise. I shall ask for it to be opened, and it will be said: 'Who is this?' I shall say: 'Muhammad.' It will be said: 'Welcome to Muhammad (pbuh).' When I see my Lord, I shall fall down prostrate to Him in gratitude to Him. It will then be said: 'Raise your head; speak and you shall be obeyed, and intercede and your intercession shall be accepted.' Then those who were deprived shall come out by the mercy of Allah and my intercession."

18513 - And on the authority of Ka'b bin Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The people will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection, and I and my Ummah will be upon a hill on the Day of Resurrection. Then my Lord will clothe me in a green mantle, then He will grant me permission and I shall praise Him as He is worthy of being praised, and that is the Praiseworthy Station."

18514 - And on the authority of Hudhayfah, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "I am the master of mankind on the Day of Resurrection. My Lord will call me and I shall say: 'At Your service and at Your pleasure, and all good is in Your hands; Blessed and Exalted are You. At Your service regarding Your creation, and the guided one is he whom You have guided. Your servant is before You; there is no refuge and no escape from You except to You. Blessed and Exalted are You.'"

18515 - And on the authority of Hudhayfah, who said: "Allah will gather the people on a single plain, and no soul shall speak. The first who—I believe he said—will speak is Muhammad (pbuh), and he will say: 'At Your service and at Your pleasure; all good is in Your hands, and evil is not attributed to You. The guided is he whom You have guided. Your servant is before You, from You and to You. There is no refuge nor escape from You except to You. Blessed and Exalted are You. Glory be to You, Lord of the House.' This refers to His saying: 'It may be that your Lord will raise you to a Praiseworthy Station.'"

18516 - And on the authority of Ali bin Abi Talib: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "I shall intercede for my nation until my Lord—Exalted and Majestic—calls me, saying: 'Are you pleased, O Muhammad?' I shall reply: 'O Lord, I am pleased.'"

18517 - And from Abdullah bin Busr, who said: "While we were sitting in the courtyard of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), he came out to us with a radiant face, beaming with joy. We stood up before him and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, may Allah gladden you, for it indeed gladdens us to see the radiance and cheerfulness of your face.' The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: 'Indeed, Jibril (pbuh) came to me just now and gave me glad tidings that Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has granted me the intercession.' We asked: 'O Messenger of Allah, is it specifically for the Banu Hashim?' He said: 'No.' We asked: 'Is it specifically for Quraysh?' He said: 'No.' We asked: 'Is it for your Ummah?' He said: 'It is for my Ummah, for the burdened sinners.'"

18518 - And from Abu Umama, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "What an excellent man I am for the wicked of my nation." A man from among those sitting with him said to him: "How are you then, O Messenger of Allah, for the best of them?" He said: "As for the wicked of my nation, Allah will enter them into Paradise through my intercession, and as for the best of them, Allah will enter them into Paradise by their deeds."

18519 - And on the authority of Ibn Abbas, from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), that he said one day: "My intercession is for the people of major sins among my Ummah." Ibn Abbas said: "The foremost in good deeds enters Paradise without account, the moderate enters Paradise by the mercy of Allah, and the one who wrongs himself and the people of the Heights (al-A'raf) enter Paradise through the intercession of Muhammad (pbuh)."

18520 - And from Abdullah bin Amr, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "I was given the choice between intercession or that half of my nation enters Paradise, so I chose intercession because it is more encompassing and more sufficient. Do you think it is for the pious? No. Rather, it is for the defiled sinners." Ziyad said: "Indeed, it refers to us, but this is how the one who narrated to us related it to us."

18521 - And on the authority of Anas who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "My intercession is for the people of major sins among my nation."

18522 - And in a narration in both of them: "Intercession has only been ordained for the people of major sins from my nation."

18523 - And on the authority of Ibn 'Umar, he said: "We used to refrain from seeking forgiveness for the perpetrators of major sins until we heard our Prophet (pbuh) saying: 'Indeed, I have reserved my intercession for the perpetrators of major sins from my nation on the Day of Resurrection.' So we refrained from much of what was in our souls, and we hoped for them."

And on the authority of Umm Salama, she said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Work and do not rely [solely upon hope]; for indeed, my intercession is for those among my nation who have perished."

18525 - And on the authority of Buraidah, who said: I entered upon Mu'awiyah while a man was speaking. Buraidah said: "O Mu'awiyah, do you permit me to speak?" He replied: "Yes," thinking that he would speak in the same manner as the other man. Buraidah then said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: "Indeed, I hope to be granted intercession on the Day of Resurrection equal to the number of trees and clods of earth on the earth." He (Buraidah) then said: "Do you then hope for it, O Mu'awiyah, while Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) would not hope for it?"

18526 - And on the authority of Buraydah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: "Are the stones and the trees numerous?" [He asked this] three times. We said: "Yes." He said: "By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, my intercession is indeed more numerous than the stones and the trees."

And on the authority of Unays al-Ansari, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "I shall indeed be granted intercession on the Day of Resurrection for everything upon the face of the earth, including stones and clods of earth."

18528 - And from Abu Hurayrah, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, I shall come to the gate of Hell and knock on its door, and it will be opened for me. I will enter it and praise Allah with praises such as no one before me has praised Him with the like thereof, nor will anyone praise Him after me. Then I shall bring out of it whoever said: 'There is no god but Allah' sincerely. Then some people from Quraysh will stand before me and trace their lineage to me; I will recognize their lineage but I will not recognize their faces, and I will leave them in the Fire."

18529 - And on the authority of Jabir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The people of Paradise will miss people they used to know in the worldly life. They will then go to the Prophets and mention them, and they (the Prophets) will intercede for them, and their intercession will be accepted. It will be said of them: 'The Released Ones', and they are all the released ones; the Water of Life will be poured over them."

18530 - And on the authority of Abdullah bin Mas'ud, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "A group of Muslims will certainly enter Paradise who had been punished in the Fire, by the mercy of Allah and the intercession of the intercessors."

18531 - And on the authority of al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "A group of people will emerge from the Fire, and they will be called in Paradise 'the Jahannamiyyun' (the people of Hellfire). They will then supplicate to Allah to remove that name from them, and Allah will erase it from them. When they emerge from the Fire, they will sprout just as feathers sprout."

18532 - And from Jabir bin Abdullah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, some people from my Ummah will be punished for their sins, so they will remain in the Fire for as long as Allah wills them to remain. Then the people of Shirk (polytheism) will taunt them, saying: 'We do not see that the affirmation and faith you were upon has benefited you.' Thereupon, no monotheist will remain except that Allah will bring him out." Then the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) recited: "Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims." I said: Jabir has hadiths in the Sahih with a different context.

18533 - And on the authority of Anas bin Malik: That the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, some people from the people of 'There is no god but Allah' will enter the Fire because of their sins. Then the people of Al-Lat and Al-Uzza will say to them: 'Your saying "There is no god but Allah" did not avail you, as you are with us in the Fire?' Then Allah will become angry for their sake, and He will bring them out (and cast them) into the River of Life. They will then be healed from their burns just as the moon is cleared from its eclipse. They will enter Paradise, and the people of Paradise will call them 'the Jahannamites.' " A man said: "O Anas, did you hear this from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh)?" Anas replied: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: 'Whoever intentionally lies against me, let him take his seat in the Fire.' I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say this."

18534 - And from Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, says: 'Bring out of the Fire whoever had in his heart the weight of a grain of barley of faith.' Then He says: 'Bring out of the Fire whoever had in his heart the weight of a mustard seed of faith.' Then He says: 'By My Might and My Majesty, I shall not treat the one who believed in Me for an hour of a day or night like the one who never believed in Me.'"

18535 - And on the authority of Abdullah bin Mas'ud, who said: "Intercession will continue for the people as they are being brought out of the Fire, until even Iblis, the arch-devil, stretches himself out for it in the hope that it might reach him."

18536 - And from Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Pulpits of light will be placed for the prophets upon which they will sit, but my pulpit will remain and I will not sit upon it—or he said: I will not sit on it—remaining standing before my Lord [erect on behalf of my Ummah] out of fear that He might send me to Paradise while my Ummah remains after me. I will say: 'O Lord, my Ummah! My Ummah!' Allah—Mighty and Sublime—will say: 'O Muhammad, what do you wish for Me to do with your Ummah?' I will say: 'O Lord, hasten their reckoning.' So they will be called and held to account; among them are those who enter Paradise by His mercy, and among them are those who enter Paradise through my intercession. I shall continue to intercede until I am given scrolls for men who had already been sent to the Fire, until Malik, the keeper of the Fire, says: 'O Muhammad, you have not left for the wrath of your Lord any retribution within your Ummah.'"

18537 - And on the authority of Hudhayfah, who attributed it to the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "Allah will bring out a people who are foul-smelling, whom the Fire has scorched, through the intercession of the intercessors; they will enter Paradise and be named the 'Hell-dwellers' (Al-Jahannamiyyin or Al-Jahannamiyyun)."

18538 - On the authority of Ibn Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The first for whom I shall intercede from among my nation are the people of my household, then those nearest and then the next nearest from Quraysh and the Ansar, then those who believed in me and followed me from the people of Yemen, then from the rest of the Arabs, then the non-Arabs; and the first for whom I shall intercede are the people of merit."

18539 - And on the authority of ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Abbad ibn Ja‘far: that he heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "The first for whom I shall intercede from my nation are the people of Medina, the people of Mecca, and the people of al-Ta’if."

18540 - On the authority of Anas bin Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Allah, the Exalted, will grant Adam intercession on the Day of Resurrection for all his progeny, for one hundred million and ten million."

And on the authority of Kharashah ibn al-Hurr, who said: I arrived in Madinah and met Abdullah ibn Salam, who said: "Shall I not relate to you a narration that is in the Book of Allah?" Then he mentioned a people who will come out of the Fire, and Adam will say: "O Lord, it has burned my offspring," so they will be brought out from it.

On the authority of Uthman—meaning Ibn Affan—from the Prophet (pbuh), he said: "The first of those who shall intercede on the Day of Resurrection are the Prophets, then the martyrs, then the callers to prayer."

18543 - On the authority of 'Abdullah bin 'Amr: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Fasting and the Qur’an will intercede for the servant on the Day of Resurrection. Fasting will say: 'O my Lord, I prevented him from food and desires, so let me intercede for him.' And the Qur’an will say: 'I prevented him from sleep at night, so let me intercede for him.'" He said: "Then they will intercede."

18544 - On the authority of Abu Umamah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) say: "Verily, there shall enter Paradise through the intercession of a man who is not a Prophet as many as the two tribes of Rabi'ah and Mudar." A man asked, "O Messenger of Allah, is not Rabi'ah from Mudar?" He replied, "I only say what I say."

18545 - And on the authority of Abu Barzah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saying: "Indeed, among my nation there is one who will intercede for more people than [the tribes of] Rabi'ah and Mudar, and indeed, among my nation there is one who will be enlarged for the Fire until he becomes one of its corners."

18546 - And on the authority of Abu Umamah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "More people than the number of the tribe of Mudar shall enter Paradise through the intercession of a man from my nation; and a man shall intercede for the members of his household, and he shall intercede in accordance with the level of his deeds."

18547 - And from Anas: That the Prophet (pbuh) said: "The people of the Fire will be displayed in rows on the Day of Resurrection, and the believers will pass by them. A man from among the people of the Fire will see a man from among the believers whom he had known in the worldly life and say: 'O so-and-so, do you not remember the day you sought my help for such and such a need?'" He said: "Then that believer will remember that, recognize him, and intercede for him to his Lord, and He will accept his intercession for him."

And from Anas bin Malik, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, a man shall intercede for two or three [men]."

18549 - And from Anas, from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) who said: "Two men traversed a desert; one of them was a worshiper and the other was burdened by sin. The worshiper became so thirsty that he collapsed, and his companion began looking at him [having with him a water vessel containing some water, so he kept looking at him] while he was lying prostrate. He said: 'By Allah, if this righteous servant dies of thirst while I have water, I shall never receive any good from Allah ever. And if I give him my water to drink, I will surely die.' So he placed his trust in Allah, made a firm resolve, sprinkled some of his water on him, and gave him the rest of his surplus to drink."
He said: "So he stood up until he crossed the desert." He said: "Then the one who was sinful will be brought to stand for account on the Day of Resurrection and will be ordered to the Fire. As the angels drive him, he will see the worshiper and say: 'O so-and-so, do you not recognize me?'" He said: "He will say: 'Who are you?' He will say: 'I am so-and-so who preferred you over myself on the day of the desert.'" He said: "He will say: 'Yes, I recognize you.'" He said: "He will say to the angels: 'Stop!' and he will come until he stands and supplicates his Lord, saying: 'O Lord, You know his favor upon me and how he preferred me over himself; O Lord, grant him to me.'" He said: "He will say: 'He is yours,' and he will take him by his hand and enter him into Paradise."

18550 - And on the authority of Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, a man from the people of Paradise will look down upon the people of the Fire, and a man from the people of the Fire will call out to him: 'O so-and-so, do you not recognize me?' He will reply: 'No, by Allah, I do not recognize you. Who are you, woe to you?!' He will say: 'I am the one you passed by in the worldly life and you asked me for a drink [of water], and I gave you a drink; so intercede for me because of it with your Lord.'" He [the Prophet] said: "Then that man will enter upon his Lord in his abode and say: 'O Lord, I looked down upon [the people of] the Fire, and a man from the people of the Fire stood up and called out: "O so-and-so, do you not recognize me?" I said: "No, by Allah, I do not recognize you, and who are you?" He said: "I am the one you passed by in the worldly life and you asked me for a drink, and I gave you a drink, so intercede for me because of it with your Lord." So, O Lord, grant me intercession for him.'" He [the Prophet] said: "So Allah granted him intercession for him and brought him out of the Fire."

18551 - On the authority of Shurahbil bin Shuf'ah, from some of the companions of the Prophet (pbuh), that he heard the Prophet (pbuh) say: "He will say to the children on the Day of Resurrection: 'Enter Paradise.' They will say: 'O our Lord, [what about] our fathers and our mothers?' [He said: so they come?] He said: Then Allah - Mighty and Majestic is He - says: 'Why do I see them standing expectantly? Enter Paradise.' He said: They say: 'O Lord, our fathers [and our mothers]?!' He said: So He says: 'Enter Paradise, you and your fathers.'"

18552 - On the authority of Anas, who said: "The Prophet (pbuh) and a group of his companions passed by a child on the road. When the mother of the child saw the group, she feared for her child that he might be trampled; so she came rushing and saying: 'My son! My son!' and she rushed and took him. The people said: 'O Messenger of Allah, she would not throw her son into the fire!' He said: The Prophet (pbuh) then calmed them and said: 'Nor, by Allah, does He throw His beloved into the fire.'"

18553 - And on the authority of Umar ibn al-Khattab, that he said: Some captives were brought to the Messenger of Allah (pbuh). I said: Then he mentioned the hadith until he said: And it reached me that: "The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) was in one of his military expeditions, and while they were traveling, they took a young bird. Then, one of its parents came and landed in the hands of the one who had taken it. So the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: 'Are you not amazed by this bird? Its young was taken, so it came until it landed in their hands. By Allah, Allah is more merciful to His creation than this bird is to its young.'"

18554 - And on the authority of Ibn Mas'ud: that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "There will be a people in the Fire for as long as Allah wills them to be, then Allah will have mercy on them and bring them out of it. They will then be in the lowest part of Paradise, and they will bathe in a river called Al-Hayawan (the Life). The people of Paradise will call them 'the Jahannamites.' If one of them were to host the people of Paradise, he would be able to provide them with lodging, feed them, give them drink, and provide them with covers." And I do not think he said except: "and he would provide them with spouses, without that diminishing anything from what he possesses."

And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Allah will surely manifest His glory on the Day of Resurrection over people who never performed any good deed. He will bring them out of the Fire after they have been burned, and then admit them into Paradise by His mercy, following the intercession of those who intercede."

18556 - And on the authority of al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "A people will be brought out of the Fire and enter Paradise, and they will be called 'The Jahannamites' (al-Jahannamiyyun) in Paradise. They will then supplicate to Allah the Exalted to change that name for them, so Allah will erase it from them, once they have come out of the Fire." He said: Then he mentioned the hadith.

18557 - And on the authority of Fadala ibn 'Ubayd and 'Ubada ibn al-Samit: that they both narrated that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "When the Day of Resurrection comes and Allah, the Exalted, finishes judging the creation, two men will remain. They will both be ordered to the Fire. One of them will look back, and the Compeller (al-Jabbar) will say: 'Bring him back.' They will bring him back, and He will say to him: 'Why did you look back?' He said: 'I was hoping that You would enter me into Paradise.' He said: 'So he is ordered to Paradise, and he says: Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has given me so much that if I were to feed the people of Paradise, that would not decrease what I have in the least.'" He said: "And whenever the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) mentioned him, joy could be seen in his face."

18558 - And from Abu Sa'id and Abu Hurayrah, they both said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "The last to emerge from the Fire are two men. Allah says to one of them: 'O son of Adam, what did you prepare for this day? Did you ever do any good? Or did you have hope in Me?' He says: 'No, my Lord.' So he is ordered back to the Fire, and he is the one with the most intense regret among the people of the Fire. And He says to the other: 'Did you ever do any good? Or did you have hope in Me?' He says: 'Yes, my Lord; I hoped that if You brought me out of it, You would not return me to it.' And he is the last person to enter Paradise."

18559 - And on the authority of Anas bin Malik, from the Prophet (pbuh): "A servant shall call out in the Fire for a thousand years: 'O Most Affectionate, O Bestower of All Favors!' He said: So Allah will say to Gabriel (peace be upon him): 'Go and bring Me this servant of Mine.' Then Gabriel will set off and find the people of the Fire fallen on their faces, weeping. He will return to his Lord—Mighty and Majestic—and inform Him, and He will say: 'Bring him to Me, for he is in such and such a place.' So he will bring him and stand him before his Lord—Mighty and Majestic—and He will say: 'O My servant, how did you find your place and your resting-place?' He will say: 'O Lord, the worst of places and the worst of resting-places.' Then He will say: 'Return My servant [to the Fire].' Thereupon he will say: 'O Lord, I did not hope, once You brought me out of it, that You would return me to it.' Then He will say: 'Leave My servant [be].'"

18560 - And from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "If you knew the extent of Allah's mercy, you would have relied—I think he said—upon it."

18561 - And on the authority of Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Indeed, Allah - Mighty and Majestic - created a hundred mercies; one mercy among them He distributed among the creation, and ninety-nine are for the Day of Resurrection."

18562 - And on the authority of Al-Hasan—meaning Al-Basri—who said: It reached me that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Verily, Allah has one hundred mercies. He distributed one single mercy among the people of the earth, and it encompassed them until their appointed terms; and He reserved ninety-nine with Him for His allies on the Day of Resurrection."

18563 - And on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said the like of that.

18564 - And it was narrated from Julas,

18565 - And on the authority of Muhammad ibn Sirin, he narrated the likes of it.

18566 - And from Mu'awiyah bin Haydah, from the Prophet (pbuh), who said: "Indeed, Allah - Mighty and Majestic - created a hundred mercies; one mercy is among His creation by which they show mercy to one another, and He has stored ninety-nine for His allies."

And on the authority of 'Ubadah bin al-Samit, he said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "Our Lord divided His mercy into one hundred parts, and sent down one part of them to the earth, and it is by that part that people, birds, and livestock show mercy to one another, and there remained with Him one hundred mercies except for one mercy for His servants on the Day of Resurrection."