Kitab al Zuhd : The book of Zuhd by Asad ibn Musa

كِتَابُ الزُّهْدِ لِأَسَدِ بْنِ مُوسَى

Kitab al Zuhd by Asad ibn Musa

This edition presents the transmitted Arabic text, its pronunciation and an English translation in that order. It includes the opening transmission, four introductory reports and thirteen chapters with reports 1–104. The base is the first edition edited by Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥuwaynī (1413 AH / 1993 CE), printed text pp. 13–80. Modern editor’s notes, study and indexes are outside the scope of this text edition.

Transliteration follows the written Arabic with long vowels ā ī ū and consonants ḥ kh dh ṣ ḍ ṭ ẓ ʿ gh sh th. The source’s isnād abbreviations nā, thanā, anā and anbaʾa are retained in Arabic and transliteration; the English renders their function as ‘narrated to us’ or ‘informed us’. Editorial Qurʾānic references are kept beside their quoted text. A few obvious pointing and spelling slips in the digitized opening transmission have been normalized. Where report wording is visibly irregular, an English bracketed note identifies the reading; it has not been silently harmonized with another version. The pointing of the name Fūrja in the opening transmission is tentative. Translation does not constitute a judgment on any report’s authenticity.

Opening transmission

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

bismi Allāhi al-raḥmāni al-raḥīmi

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Ever-Merciful.

حَدَّثَنَا الشَّيْخُ الْإِمَامُ الْعَالِمُ الْحَافِظُ شَمْسُ الدِّينِ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمُنْعِمِ بْنِ عَمَّارِ بْنِ هَامِلِ الْحَرَّانِيُّ قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ قَالَ:

ḥaddathanā al-shaykhu al-ʾimāmu al-ʿālimu al-ḥāfiẓu shamsu al-dīni ʾabū ʿabdi Allāhi muḥammadu ibnu ʿabdi al-munʿimi ibni ʿammāri ibni hāmili al-ḥarrāniyyu qirāʾatan ʿalayhi qāla:

The shaykh, imam, learned ḥāfiẓ Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAmmār ibn Hāmil al-Ḥarrānī related to us, as it was read before him. He said:

أَنْبَأَ شَيْخُنَا الْإِمَامُ الْعَالِمِ الْحَافِظُ ضِيَاءُ الدِّينِ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ الْمَقْدِسِيُّ، بِقِرَاءَتِي عَلَيْهِ بِجَبَلِ الصَّالِحِيَّةِ، وَذَلِكَ فِي يَوْمِ الْخَمِيسِ حَادِيَ عَشَرَ شَوَّالٍ سَنَةَ خَمْسٍ وَثَلَاثِينَ وَسِتِّمِائَةٍ، قَالَ:

ʾanbaʾa shaykhunā al-ʾimāmu al-ʿālimi al-ḥāfiẓu ḍiyāʾu al-dīni ʾabū ʿabdi Allāhi muḥammadu ibnu ʿabdi al-wāḥidi ibni ʾaḥmada al-maqdisiyyu, biqirāʾatī ʿalayhi bijabali al-ṣāliḥiyyati, wadhalika fī yawmi al-khamīsi ḥādiya ʿashara shawwālin sanata khamsin wathalāthīna wasittimiʾatin, qāla:

Our shaykh, the imam and learned ḥāfiẓ Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad al-Maqdisī informed us, as I read before him at Jabal al-Ṣāliḥiyya on Thursday, the eleventh of Shawwāl in the year 635. He said:

أَنَا أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ، وَذَلِكَ ثَانِيَ شَوَّالٍ سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ وَسَبْعِينَ وَخَمْسِمِائَةٍ قَالَ:

ʾanā ʾabū al-qāsimi ʿabdu al-wāḥidi ibnu al-qāsimi ibni al-faḍli, wadhalika thāniya shawwālin sanata thamānin wasabʿīna wakhamsimiʾatin qāla:

Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl informed us on the second of Shawwāl in the year 578. He said:

أَنَا أَبُو نَهْشَلٍ عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ، قَالَ شَيْخُنَا ضِيَاءُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدٌ:

ʾanā ʾabū nahshalin ʿabdu al-ṣamadi ibnu ʾaḥmada ibni al-faḍli al-ʿanbariyyu, qāla shaykhunā ḍiyāʾu al-dīni muḥammadun:

Abū Nahshal ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl al-ʿAnbarī informed us. Our shaykh Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad said:

وَأَنْبَأَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ نَصْرِ بْنِ أَبِي الْفَتْحِ فِي السَّنَةِ الْمُقَدَّمِ ذِكْرُهَا، قَالَ:

waʾanbaʾa ʾabū jaʿfarin muḥammadu ibnu ʾaḥmada ibni naṣri ibni ʾabī al-fatḥi fī al-sanati al-muqaddami dhikruhā, qāla:

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Naṣr ibn Abī al-Fatḥ also informed us in the year already mentioned. He said:

أَنْبَأَ أَبُو الْخَيْرِ عَبْدُ الْكَرِيمِ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ فُورْجَةَ، وَأَخْبَرَنَا شَيْخُنَا الْإِمَامُ أَبُو طَاهِرٍ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ ظَفَرِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ النَّابُلْسِيُّ بِقِرَاءَتِي عَلَيْهِ بِدِمَشْقَ سَنَةَ سَبْعٍ وَثَلَاثِينَ وَسِتِّمِائَةٍ قَالَ:

ʾanbaʾa ʾabū al-khayri ʿabdu al-karīmi ibnu ʿaliyyi ibni fūrjata, waʾakhbaranā shaykhunā al-ʾimāmu ʾabū ṭāhirin ʾismāʿīlu ibnu ẓafari ibni ʾaḥmada al-nābulsiyyu biqirāʾatī ʿalayhi bidimashqa sanata sabʿin wathalāthīna wasittimiʾatin qāla:

Abū al-Khayr ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Fūrja informed us. Our shaykh, the imam Abū Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl ibn Ẓafar ibn Aḥmad al-Nābulusī, informed us as I read before him in Damascus in the year 637. He said:

أَنْبَأَ أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ بْنُ أَبِي الْمُطَهَّرِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ الصَّيْدَلَانِيُّ قَالَ:

ʾanbaʾa ʾabū al-qāsimi ibnu ʾabī al-muṭahhari al-qāsimi ibni al-faḍli ibni ʿabdi al-wāḥidi al-ṣaydalāniyyu qāla:

Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-Muṭahhar al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ṣaydalānī informed us. He said:

أَنْبَأَ أَبُو نَهْشَلٍ، وَأَخْبَرَنَا شَيْخُنَا الْإِمَامُ الْحَافِظُ شَمْسُ الدِّينِ يُوسُفُ بْنُ خَلِيلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ، بِقِرَاءَتِي عَلَيْهِ بِحَلَبَ ثَامِنَ ذِي الْقِعْدَةِ سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ وَثَلَاثِينَ وَسِتِّمِائَةٍ قَالَ:

ʾanbaʾa ʾabū nahshalin, waʾakhbaranā shaykhunā al-ʾimāmu al-ḥāfiẓu shamsu al-dīni yūsufu ibnu khalīli ibni ʿabdi Allāhi al-dimashqiyyu, biqirāʾatī ʿalayhi biḥalaba thāmina dhī al-qiʿdati sanata thamānin wathalāthīna wasittimiʾatin qāla:

Abū Nahshal informed us. Our shaykh, the imam and ḥāfiẓ Shams al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī informed us as I read before him in Aleppo on the eighth of Dhū al-Qaʿda in the year 638. He said:

أَخْبَرَنَا الْمَشَايِخُ أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ أَبِي الْمُطَهَّرِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ، وَالشَّيْخُ زَيْنُ الدِّينِ أَبُو الْمَعَالِي مَسْعُودُ بْنُ أَبِي الْفَضَائِلِ مَحْمُودِ بْنِ خَلَفٍ الْعِجْلِيُّ، وَالشَّيْخُ أَبُو الْخَيْرِ مَسْعُودُ بْنُ أَبِي الْمَنْصُورِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْخَيَّاطِ، قَالُوا ثَلَاثَتُهُمْ:

ʾakhbaranā al-mashāyikhu ʾabū al-qāsimi ʿabdu al-wāḥidi ibnu ʾabī al-muṭahhari al-qāsimi ibni al-faḍli, wa-l-shaykhu zaynu al-dīni ʾabū al-maʿālī masʿūdu ibnu ʾabī al-faḍāʾili maḥmūdi ibni khalafin al-ʿijliyyu, wa-l-shaykhu ʾabū al-khayri masʿūdu ibnu ʾabī al-manṣūri ibni muḥammadi ibni al-ḥasani al-khayyāṭi, qālū thalāthatuhum:

The shaykhs Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī al-Muṭahhar al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl; Zayn al-Dīn Abū al-Maʿālī Masʿūd ibn Abī al-Faḍāʾil Maḥmūd ibn Khalaf al-ʿIjlī; and Abū al-Khayr Masʿūd ibn Abī al-Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Khayyāṭ informed us. All three said:

أَنْبَأَ ابْنُ فُورْجَةَ وَأَبُو نَهْشَلٍ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ فَاشَاذَهْ، نَا أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ الطَّبَرَانِيُّ قَالَ:

ʾanbaʾa ibnu fūrjata waʾabū nahshalin, ʾanbaʾa ʾabū al-ḥusayni ʾaḥmadu ibnu muḥammadi ibni ʾaḥmada ibni al-ḥusayni ibni fāshādhah, nā ʾabū al-qāsimi sulaymānu ibnu ʾaḥmada ibni ʾayyūba al-ṭabarāniyyu qāla:

Ibn Fūrja and Abū Nahshal informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Fāshādha informed us; Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb al-Ṭabarānī narrated to us. He said:

أَنْبَأَ أَبُو يَزِيدَ يُوسُفُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْقَرَاطِيسِيُّ قَالَ:

ʾanbaʾa ʾabū yazīda yūsufu ibnu yazīda al-qarāṭīsiyyu qāla:

Abū Yazīd Yūsuf ibn Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī informed us. He said:

أَنْبَأَ أَسَدُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ:

ʾanbaʾa ʾasadu ibnu mūsā qāla:

Asad ibn Mūsā informed us and said:

Introductory reports

١ - نَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، نَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ سُمَيْعٍ، عَنْ أَبِي رَزِينٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {فَلْيَضْحَكُوا قَلِيلًا وَلْيَبْكُوا كَثِيرًا} [التَّوْبَة: ٨٢] قَالَ: «الدُّنْيَا قَلِيلٌ، فَلْيَضْحَكُوا فِيهَا مَا شَاءُوا، فَإِذَا انْقَطَعَتْ وَصَارُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى، اسْتَأْنَفُوا فِي بُكَاءٍ لَا يَنْقَطِعُ عَنْهُمْ أَبَدًا»

1 - nā marwānu ibnu muʿāwiyata, nā ʾismāʿīlu ibnu sumayʿin, ʿan ʾabī razīnin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin, fī qawlihi tabāraka wataʿālā: {falyaḍḥakū qalīlan walyabkū kathīran} [al-tawba: 82] qāla: «al-dunyā qalīlun, falyaḍḥakū fīhā mā shāʾū, faʾidhā anqaṭaʿat waṣārū ʾilā Allāhi taʿālā, astaʾnafū fī bukāʾin lā yanqaṭiʿu ʿanhum ʾabadan»

Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Sumayʿ narrated to us, from Abū Razīn, from Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning God’s words, exalted is He: “Let them laugh a little and weep much” (Qurʾān 9:82). He said: “This world is little, so let them laugh in it as much as they wish. When it ends and they return to God Most High, they will begin a weeping that will never cease for them.”

٢ - نَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ أَبِي الْقَاسِمِ، عَنِ ابْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، رَفَعَهُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - فِيمَا أَحْسَبُ - فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: {سَوَاءٌ عَلَيْنَا أَجَزِعْنَا أَمْ صَبَرْنَا مَا لَنَا مِنْ مَحِيصٍ} [إِبْرَاهِيم: ٢١] قَالَ: " يَقُولُ أَهْلُ النَّارِ: هَلُمُّوا فَلْنَصْبِرْ، قَالَ: فَيَصْبِرُوا خَمْسَمِائَةِ عَامٍ، فَلَمَّا رَأَوْا ذَلِكَ لَا يَنْفَعُهُمُ، قَالُوا: هَلُمُّوا فَلْنَجْزَعْ قَالَ: فَيَبْكُونَ خَمْسَمِائَةِ عَامٍ، فَلَمَّا رَأَوْا ذَلِكَ لَا يَنْفَعُهُمُ قَالُوا: {سَوَاءٌ عَلَيْنَا أَجَزِعْنَا أَمْ صَبَرْنَا مَا لَنَا مِنْ مَحِيصٍ} [إِبْرَاهِيم: ٢١]

2 - nā muḥammadu ibnu yūsufa, ʿan ʾanasi ibni ʾabī al-qāsimi, ʿani ibni kaʿbi ibni mālikin, ʿan ʾabīhi, rafaʿahu ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama - fīmā ʾaḥsabu - fī qawlihi taʿālā: {sawāʾun ʿalaynā ʾajaziʿnā ʾam ṣabarnā mā lanā min maḥīṣin} [ʾibrāhīm: 21] qāla: " yaqūlu ʾahlu al-nāri: halummū falnaṣbir, qāla: fayaṣbirū khamsamiʾati ʿāmin, falammā raʾaw dhalika lā yanfaʿuhumu, qālū: halummū falnajzaʿ qāla: fayabkūna khamsamiʾati ʿāmin, falammā raʾaw dhalika lā yanfaʿuhumu qālū: {sawāʾun ʿalaynā ʾajaziʿnā ʾam ṣabarnā mā lanā min maḥīṣin} [ʾibrāhīm: 21]

Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf narrated to us, from Anas ibn Abī al-Qāsim, from the son of Kaʿb ibn Mālik, from his father, who attributed it to the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace—as I believe—concerning God’s words: “It is the same for us whether we despair or endure; there is no escape for us” (Qurʾān 14:21). He said: “The people of the Fire will say, ‘Come, let us be patient.’ They will endure for five hundred years. When they see that it does them no good, they will say, ‘Come, let us cry out.’ They will weep for five hundred years. When they see that this does them no good, they will say: ‘It is the same for us whether we despair or endure; there is no escape for us.’”

٣ - ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ الطَّائِفِيُّ، أَنْبَأَ عَمْرُو بْنُ دِينَارٍ، قَالَ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّهُ لَمَّا نَادَى أَهْلُ النَّارِ: {يَا مَالِكُ لِيَقْضِ عَلَيْنَا رَبُّكَ} [الزُّخْرُف: ٧٧]، مَكَثَ عَنْهُمْ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: {إِنَّكُمْ مَاكِثُونَ} [الزُّخْرُف: ٧٧]

3 - thanā muḥammadu ibnu muslimin al-ṭāʾifiyyu, ʾanbaʾa ʿamru ibnu dīnārin, qāla: balaghanī ʾannahu lammā nādā ʾahlu al-nāri: {yā māliku liyaqḍi ʿalaynā rabbuka} [al-zukhruf: 77], makatha ʿanhum ʾalfa sanatin, thumma qāla: {ʾinnakum mākithūna} [al-zukhruf: 77]

Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Ṭāʾifī narrated to us; ʿAmr ibn Dīnār informed us. He said: “It reached me that when the people of the Fire called out, ‘O Mālik, let your Lord put an end to us’ (Qurʾān 43:77), he remained silent toward them for a thousand years, then said, ‘You are to remain’ (Qurʾān 43:77).”

٤ - ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {وَنَادَوْا يَا مَالِكُ لِيَقْضِ عَلَيْنَا رَبُّكَ} [الزُّخْرُف: ٧٧] قَالَ: «مَكَثَ عَنْهُمْ أَلْفَ عَامٍ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: {إِنَّكُمْ مَاكِثُونَ} [الزُّخْرُف: ٧٧] »

4 - thanā muḥammadu ibnu yūsufa, ʿan sufyāna, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi ibni al-sāʾibi, ʿan ʾabī al-ḥasani, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin, fī qawlihi tabāraka wataʿālā: {wanādaw yā māliku liyaqḍi ʿalaynā rabbuka} [al-zukhruf: 77] qāla: «makatha ʿanhum ʾalfa ʿāmin, thumma qāla: {ʾinnakum mākithūna} [al-zukhruf: 77] »

Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf narrated to us, from Sufyān, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Abū al-Ḥasan, from Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning the words of God, blessed and exalted is He: “They will call, ‘O Mālik, let your Lord put an end to us’” (Qurʾān 43:77). He said: “He remained silent toward them for a thousand years, then said, ‘You are to remain’” (Qurʾān 43:77).

The lightest punishment among the people of the Fire

بَابُ ذِكْرِ أَهْوَنِ أَهْلِ النَّارِ عَذَابًا

bābu dhikri ʾahwani ʾahli al-nāri ʿadhāban

The lightest punishment among the people of the Fire

٥ - ثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:

5 - thanā ʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿani al-nuʿmāni ibni bashīrin, qāla: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:

Isrāʾīl narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr. He said: I heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, say:

«إِنَّ أَهْوَنَ أَهْلِ النَّارِ عَذَابًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، رَجُلٌ فِي أَخْمَصِ قَدَمَيْهِ جَمْرَتَانِ، يَغْلِي مِنْهُمَا دِمَاغُهُ كَمَا يَغْلِي الْمِرْجَلُ أَوِ الْقُمْقُمُ».

«ʾinna ʾahwana ʾahli al-nāri ʿadhāban yawma al-qiyāmati, rajulun fī ʾakhmaṣi qadamayhi jamratāni, yaghlī minhumā dimāghuhu kamā yaghlī al-mirjalu ʾawi al-qumqumu».

“The person among the people of the Fire who suffers the lightest punishment on the Day of Resurrection is a man with two embers beneath the arches of his feet. His brain boils from them as a cauldron or a narrow-necked vessel boils.”

٦ - ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ:

6 - thanā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan thābitin, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna al-nahdiyyi, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, qāla:

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Thābit, from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«إِنَّ أَهْوَنَ أَهْلِ النَّارِ عَذَابًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، أَبُو طَالِبٍ، لَهُ نَعْلَانِ مِنْ نَارٍ، يَغْلِي مِنْهُمَا دِمَاغُهُ»

«ʾinna ʾahwana ʾahli al-nāri ʿadhāban yawma al-qiyāmati, ʾabū ṭālibin, lahu naʿlāni min nārin, yaghlī minhumā dimāghuhu»

“The person among the people of the Fire who suffers the lightest punishment on the Day of Resurrection is Abū Ṭālib. He will wear two sandals of fire from which his brain boils.”

٧ - ثَنَا أَبُو الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ:

7 - thanā ʾabū al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʿamri ibni maymūnin, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi:

Abū al-Aḥwaṣ narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn. He said: ʿAbd Allāh said:

«إِنَّ مِنْ أَهْوَنِ أَهْلِ النَّارِ عَذَابًا رَجُلًا لَهُ نَعْلَانِ وَشِرَاكَانِ مِنْ نَارٍ، يَغْلِي مِنْهُمَا دِمَاغُهُ، كَمَا يَغْلِي الْقُمْقُمُ أَوِ الْمِرْجَلُ، مَا يَرَى أَنَّ مِنْ أَهْلِ النَّارِ أَحَدًا أَشَدَّ عَذَابًا مِنْهُ، وَمَا مِنْ أَهْلِ النَّارِ أَحَدٌ أَهْوَنُ عَذَابًا مِنْهُ»

«ʾinna min ʾahwani ʾahli al-nāri ʿadhāban rajulan lahu naʿlāni washirākāni min nārin, yaghlī minhumā dimāghuhu, kamā yaghlī al-qumqumu ʾawi al-mirjalu, mā yarā ʾanna min ʾahli al-nāri ʾaḥadan ʾashadda ʿadhāban minhu, wamā min ʾahli al-nāri ʾaḥadun ʾahwanu ʿadhāban minhu»

“Among those who suffer the lightest punishment in the Fire is a man with two sandals and two sandal straps of fire. His brain boils from them as a vessel or cauldron boils. He thinks that no one in the Fire suffers more severely than he does, though no one in the Fire suffers less severely.”

٨ - ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَازِمٍ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

8 - thanā muḥammadu ibnu khāzimin, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿan ʿubaydi ibni ʿumayrin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Muḥammad ibn Khāzim narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Mujāhid, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr. He said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«إِنَّ أَدْنَى أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ مَنْزِلَةً لَرَجُلٌ لَهُ دَارٌ مِنْ لُؤْلُؤَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ، مِنْهَا غُرَفُهَا وَأَبْوَابُهَا. وَإِنَّ أَدْنَى أَهْلِ النَّارِ عَذَابًا لَرَجُلٌ عَلَيْهِ نَعْلَانِ مِنْ نَارٍ يَغْلِي مِنْهُمَا دِمَاغُهُ كَمَا يَغْلِي الْمِرْجَلُ. مَسَامِعُهُ جَمْرٌ، وَأَضْرَاسُهُ جَمْرٌ، وَأَشْفَارُهُ لَهَبُ النَّارِ، وَتَخْرُجُ أَحْشَاؤُهُ مِنْ جَنْبَيْهِ وَقَدَمَيْهِ , وَسَائِرُهُمْ كَالْحَبِّ الْقَلِيلِ فِي الْمَاءِ الْكَثِيرِ يَفُورُ»

«ʾinna ʾadnā ʾahli al-jannati manzilatan larajulun lahu dārun min luʾluʾatin wāḥidatin, minhā ghurafuhā waʾabwābuhā. waʾinna ʾadnā ʾahli al-nāri ʿadhāban larajulun ʿalayhi naʿlāni min nārin yaghlī minhumā dimāghuhu kamā yaghlī al-mirjalu. masāmiʿuhu jamrun, waʾaḍrāsuhu jamrun, waʾashfāruhu lahabu al-nāri, watakhruju ʾaḥshāʾuhu min janbayhi waqadamayhi , wasāʾiruhum ka-l-ḥabbi al-qalīli fī al-māʾi al-kathīri yafūru»

“The lowest-ranking inhabitant of Paradise is a man who has a dwelling formed from a single pearl, including its rooms and doors. The person who suffers the lightest punishment in the Fire is a man who wears two sandals of fire; his brain boils from them as a cauldron boils. His ears are embers, his molars are embers, and his eyelashes are flames. His innards emerge from his sides and feet. All the others are like a little grain in a great mass of boiling water.”

٩ - ثَنَا رَوْحٌ، عَنْ حَمَّادٍ، قَالَ:

9 - thanā rawḥun, ʿan ḥammādin, qāla:

Rawḥ narrated to us, from Ḥammād, who said:

«ذُكِرَ لِي أَنَّ أَهْلَ النَّارِ تَدْخُلُ النَّارُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَأَبْصَارِهِمْ، فَتَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَدْبَارِهِمْ وَتَدْخُلُ فِي أَدْبَارِهِمْ فَتَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَأَبْصَارِهِمْ»

«dhukira lī ʾanna ʾahla al-nāri tadkhulu al-nāru min ʾafwāhihim waʾabṣārihim, fatakhruju min ʾadbārihim watadkhulu fī ʾadbārihim fatakhruju min ʾafwāhihim waʾabṣārihim»

“It was mentioned to me that fire enters the people of the Fire through their mouths and eyes and comes out through their backsides; it enters through their backsides and comes out through their mouths and eyes.”

١٠ - ثَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {لَابِثِينَ فِيهَا أَحْقَابًا} [النَّبَأ: ٢٣] قَالَ: «لَيْسَ لَهَا أَجَلٌ، كُلَّمَا مَضَتْ حِقَبٌ، دَخَلَتْ فِي أُخْرَى»

10 - thanā al-mubāraku ibnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, fī qawlihi tabāraka wataʿālā: {lābithīna fīhā ʾaḥqāban} [al-nabaʾ: 23] qāla: «laysa lahā ʾajalun, kullamā maḍat ḥiqabun, dakhalat fī ʾukhrā»

Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, concerning the words of God, blessed and exalted is He: “Remaining there for ages” (Qurʾān 78:23). He said: “It has no end. Whenever one age passes, another begins.”

The valleys and mountains of Hell

بَابُ ذِكْرِ أَوْدِيَةِ جَهَنَّمَ وَجِبَالِهَا

bābu dhikri ʾawdiyati jahannama wajibālihā

The valleys and mountains of Hell

١١ - ثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، فِي قَوْلِهِ: {فَسَوْفَ يَلْقَوْنَ غَيًّا} [مَرْيَم: ٥٩] قَالَ: «وَادٍ فِي جَهَنَّمَ»

11 - thanā ʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi, fī qawlihi: {fasawfa yalqawna ghayyan} [maryam: 59] qāla: «wādin fī jahannama»

Isrāʾīl narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbayda, from ʿAbd Allāh, concerning the words “They will meet Ghayy” (Qurʾān 19:59). He said: “A valley in Hell.”

١٢ - ثَنَا قَيْسُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ: {فَسَوْفَ يُلْقَوْنَ غَيًّا} [مَرْيَم: ٥٩] قَالَ: «نَهْرٌ فِي جَهَنَّمَ»

12 - thanā qaysu ibnu al-rabīʿi, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi: {fasawfa yulqawna ghayyan} [maryam: 59] qāla: «nahrun fī jahannama»

Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbayda, from ʿAbd Allāh, concerning “They will meet Ghayy” (Qurʾān 19:59). He said: “A river in Hell.”

١٣ - ثَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ:

13 - thanā marwānu ibnu muʿāwiyata, ʿani al-ʿalāʾi ibni al-musayyabi, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi, qāla:

Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya narrated to us, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū ʿUbayda, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said:

«هُوَ نَهْرٌ فِي النَّارِ يُقَالُ لَهُ: غَيٌّ»

«huwa nahrun fī al-nāri yuqālu lahu: ghayyun»

“It is a river in the Fire called Ghayy.”

١٤ - نَا أَبُو الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ:

14 - nā ʾabū al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata, ʿan ʾabīhi, qāla:

Abū al-Aḥwaṣ narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbayda, from his father, who said:

«الْغَيُّ نَهْرٌ فِي جَهَنَّمَ، يُقْذَفُ فِيهِ الَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُوا الشَّهَوَاتِ»

«al-ghayyu nahrun fī jahannama, yuqdhafu fīhi al-adhīna attabaʿū al-shahawāti»

“Ghayy is a river in Hell into which those who follow their desires are cast.”

١٥ - ثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، ثَنَا دَرَّاجٌ، عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ:

15 - thanā ibnu lahīʿata, thanā darrājun, ʿan ʾabī al-haythami, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi, ʿan rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, ʾannahu qāla:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; Darrāj narrated to us, from Abū al-Haytham, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, from the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«وَيْلٌ: وَادٍ فِي جَهَنَّمَ، يَهْوِي فِيهِ الْكَافِرُ أَرْبَعِينَ خَرِيفًا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَبْلُغَ قَعْرَهُ، وَالصَّعُودُ: جَبَلٌ مِنْ نَارٍ يَتَصَعَّدُ فِيهِ سَبْعِينَ خَرِيفًا، ثُمَّ يَهْوِي بِهِ كَذَلِكَ أَبَدًا»

«waylun: wādin fī jahannama, yahwī fīhi al-kāfiru ʾarbaʿīna kharīfan qabla ʾan yablugha qaʿrahu, wa-l-ṣaʿūdu: jabalun min nārin yataṣaʿʿadu fīhi sabʿīna kharīfan, thumma yahwī bihi kadhalika ʾabadan»

“Wayl is a valley in Hell in which an unbeliever falls for forty autumns before reaching its bottom. Ṣaʿūd is a mountain of fire which he climbs for seventy autumns; then he falls down it for the same length of time, forever.”

١٦ - ثَنَا قَيْسُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ زِيَادٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عِيَاضٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ:

16 - thanā qaysu ibnu al-rabīʿi, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ziyādin, ʿan ʾabī ʿiyāḍin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin, qāla:

Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Ziyād, from Abū ʿIyāḍ, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:

«وَيْلٌ: وَادٍ فِي جَهَنَّمَ لَا يَعْلَمُهُ إِلَّا اللَّهُ تَعَالَى»

«waylun: wādin fī jahannama lā yaʿlamuhu ʾillā Allāhu taʿālā»

“Wayl is a valley in Hell known only to God Most High.”

١٧ - ثَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، ثَنَا الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ:

17 - thanā marwānu ibnu muʿāwiyata, thanā al-ʿalāʾu ibnu al-musayyabi, ʿan ʾabīhi, qāla:

Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya narrated to us; al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Musayyab narrated to us, from his father, who said:

«هُوَ وَادٍ فِي النَّارِ، يُقَالُ لَهُ: وَيْلٌ»

«huwa wādin fī al-nāri, yuqālu lahu: waylun»

“It is a valley in the Fire called Wayl.”

١٨ - نَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَمَّارٍ الدُّهْنِيِّ، عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ - يَعْنِي - ابْنَ سَعْدٍ الْعَوْفِيَّ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {سَأُرْهِقَهُ صَعُودًا} [الْمُدَّثِّر: ١٧] قَالَ: «هِيَ صَخْرَةٌ فِي جَهَنَّمَ، إِذَا وَضَعُوا أَيْدِيَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا ذَابَتْ، وَإِذَا رَفَعُوهَا عَادَتْ»

18 - nā sufyānu ibnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʿammārin al-duhniyyi, ʿan ʿaṭiyyata - yaʿnī - ibna saʿdin al-ʿawfiyya ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi, fī qawlihi tabāraka wataʿālā: {saʾurhiqahu ṣaʿūdan} [al-muddaththir: 17] qāla: «hiya ṣakhratun fī jahannama, ʾidhā waḍaʿū ʾaydiyahum ʿalayhā dhābat, waʾidhā rafaʿūhā ʿādat»

Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna narrated to us, from ʿAmmār al-Duhnī, from ʿAṭiyya—meaning Ibn Saʿd al-ʿAwfī—from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, concerning God’s words, blessed and exalted is He, “I shall burden him with Ṣaʿūd” (Qurʾān 74:17). He said: “It is a rock in Hell. When they place their hands on it, their hands melt; when they lift them away, they return to their former state.”

١٩ - نَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ مِقْسَمٍ، عَنِ الْكَلْبِيِّ، قَالَ:

19 - nā ʿuthmānu ibnu miqsamin, ʿani al-kalbiyyi, qāla:

ʿUthmān ibn Miqsam narrated to us, from al-Kalbī, who said:

«صَخْرَةٌ فِي جَهَنَّمَ صَمَّاءُ يَهْوِي فِيهَا سَبْعِينَ خَرِيفًا»

«ṣakhratun fī jahannama ṣammāʾu yahwī fīhā sabʿīna kharīfan»

“It is a hard rock in Hell down which one falls for seventy autumns.”

٢٠ - نَا قَيْسٌ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْمُهَاجِرِ، عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ، قَالَ:

20 - nā qaysun, ʿan ʾibrāhīma ibni al-muhājiri, ʿan ʿaṭiyyata ibni saʿdin, ʿan saʿīdi ibni al-musayyibi, qāla:

Qays narrated to us, from Ibrāhīm ibn al-Muhājir, from ʿAṭiyya ibn Saʿd, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, who said:

«جَبَلٌ فِي جَهَنَّمَ يُكَلَّفُونَ الصُّعُودَ عَلَيْهِ، كُلَّمَا وَضَعُوا أَيْدِيَهُمْ عَلَيْهِ ذَابَتْ، فَإِذَا رَفَعُوهَا عَادَتْ»

«jabalun fī jahannama yukallafūna al-ṣuʿūda ʿalayhi, kullamā waḍaʿū ʾaydiyahum ʿalayhi dhābat, faʾidhā rafaʿūhā ʿādat»

“It is a mountain in Hell that they are made to climb. Each time they place their hands on it, the hands melt; when they lift them away, they return.”

The serpents and scorpions of the Fire

بَابُ ذِكْرِ حَيَّاتِ النَّارِ وَعَقَارِبِهَا

bābu dhikri ḥayyāti al-nāri waʿaqāribihā

The serpents and scorpions of the Fire

٢١ - ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ عَمَّارِ بْنِ أَبِي عَمَّارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، قَالَ:

21 - thanā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan ʿaliyyi ibni zaydin, ʿan ʿammāri ibni ʾabī ʿammārin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu, qāla:

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, from ʿAmmār ibn Abī ʿAmmār, from Abū Hurayra, may God be pleased with him. He said:

«بَيْنَ جِلْدَةِ الْكَافِرِ وَلَحْمِهِ دِيدَانٌ تَرْكُضُ كَحُمُرِ الْوَحْشِ، وَإِنَّ حَيَّاتِهَا كَأَعْنَاقِ الْبُخْتِ، وَعَقَارِبَهَا كَالْبِغَالِ الدُّلْمِ»

«bayna jildati al-kāfiri walaḥmihi dīdānun tarkuḍu kaḥumuri al-waḥshi, waʾinna ḥayyātihā kaʾaʿnāqi al-bukhti, waʿaqāribahā ka-l-bighāli al-dulmi»

“Between the skin and flesh of the unbeliever are worms that race about like wild asses. Its snakes have necks like Bactrian camels, and its scorpions are like dark mules.”

٢٢ - ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، نَا دَرَّاجٌ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ جَزْءٍ الزُّبَيْدِيَّ، صَاحِبَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

22 - ibnu lahīʿata, nā darrājun, ʾannahu balaghahu ʾanna ʿabda Allāhi ibna jazʾin al-zubaydiyya, ṣāḥiba al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Ibn Lahīʿa; Darrāj narrated to us that it reached him that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Juzʾ al-Zubaydī, a Companion of the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«إِنَّ فِي النَّارِ لَحَيَّاتٍ مِثْلَ أَعْنَاقِ الْبُخْتِ، تَلْسَعُ أَحَدَهُمُ اللَّسْعَةَ فَيَجِدُ حُمْوَتَهَا أَرْبَعِينَ خَرِيفًا، وَإِنَّ فِيهَا لَعَقَارِبَ كَالْبِغَالِ الْمُوكَفَةِ تَلْسَعُ أَحَدَهُمْ فَيَجِدُ حُمْوَتَهَا أَرْبَعِينَ خَرِيفًا»

«ʾinna fī al-nāri laḥayyātin mithla ʾaʿnāqi al-bukhti, talsaʿu ʾaḥadahumu al-lasʿata fayajidu ḥumwatahā ʾarbaʿīna kharīfan, waʾinna fīhā laʿaqāriba ka-l-bighāli al-mūkafati talsaʿu ʾaḥadahum fayajidu ḥumwatahā ʾarbaʿīna kharīfan»

“In the Fire are snakes like the necks of Bactrian camels. One of them stings a person, who feels its burning venom for forty autumns. In it are scorpions like saddled mules; one stings a person, who feels its burning venom for forty autumns.”

٢٣ - نَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ شَيْخًا، يُحَدِّثُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ، قَالَ: " إِنَّهُ لَيُسْمَعُ بَيْنَ جِلْدِ الْكَافِرِ وَلَحْمِهِ مِنْ جَلَبَةِ الدُّودِ كَجَلَبَةِ الْوَحْشِ

23 - nā wakīʿun, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, qāla: samiʿtu shaykhan, yuḥaddithu fī al-masjidi ʿan ʿamri ibni maymūnin, qāla: " ʾinnahu layusmaʿu bayna jildi al-kāfiri walaḥmihi min jalabati al-dūdi kajalabati al-waḥshi

Wakīʿ narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, who said: I heard an elderly man relating in the mosque from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn, who said: “The commotion of the worms between an unbeliever’s skin and flesh can be heard like the commotion of wild beasts.”

٢٤ - نَا بَكْرُ بْنُ خُنَيْسٍ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ الشَّامِيِّ، عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ خَرَجَ عَلَيْهِمْ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ مُتَغَيِّرَ اللَّوْنِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ:

24 - nā bakru ibnu khunaysin, ʿan yazīda al-shāmiyyi, ʿan thawri ibni yazīda, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kharaja ʿalayhim dhāta yawmin mutaghayyira al-lawni, thumma qāla:

Bakr ibn Khunays narrated to us, from Yazīd al-Shāmī, from Thawr ibn Yazīd: One day the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, came out to them with his complexion changed, then said:

«إِنَّ فِي جَهَنَّمَ لَوَادِيًا، وَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ لَتَتَعَوَّذُ مِنْ شَرِّ ذَلِكَ الْوَادِي كُلَّ يَوْمٍ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ، وَإِنَّ فِي الْوَادِي لَجُبًّا، إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ وَذَلِكَ الْوَادِيَ لَيَتَعَوَّذُونَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْجُبِّ، وَإِنَّ فِي الْجُبِّ لَحَيَّةً، وَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ وَالْوَادِيَ وَذَلِكَ الْجُبَّ يَتَعَوَّذُونَ بِاللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْحَيَّةِ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ، أَعَدَّهُ اللَّهُ لِلْأَشْقِيَاءِ مِنْ حَمَلَةِ الْقُرْآنِ الَّذِينَ يَعْصُونَ اللَّهَ فِيهِ»

«ʾinna fī jahannama lawādiyan, waʾinna jahannama latataʿawwadhu min sharri dhalika al-wādī kulla yawmin sabʿa marrātin, waʾinna fī al-wādī lajubban, ʾinna jahannama wadhalika al-wādiya layataʿawwadhūna min dhalika al-jubbi, waʾinna fī al-jubbi laḥayyatan, waʾinna jahannama wa-l-wādiya wadhalika al-jubba yataʿawwadhūna bi-llāhi ʿazza wajalla min tilka al-ḥayyati sabʿa marrātin, ʾaʿaddahu Allāhu li-l-ʾashqiyāʾi min ḥamalati al-qurʾāni al-adhīna yaʿṣūna Allāha fīhi»

“In Hell there is a valley. Hell itself seeks refuge from the evil of that valley seven times each day. In the valley is a pit, and both Hell and that valley seek refuge from the pit. In the pit is a serpent, and Hell, the valley, and the pit seek refuge in God, mighty and majestic, from that serpent seven times. God has prepared it for the wretched among those who bear the Qurʾān yet disobey God concerning it.”

٢٥ - ثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ، عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سُئِلَ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {زِدْنَاهُمْ عَذَابًا فَوْقَ الْعَذَابِ} [النَّحْل: ٨٨] قَالَ «عَقَارِبُ أَمْثَالُ النَّخْلِ الطِّوَالِ تَنْهَشُهُمْ فِي جَهَنَّمَ»

25 - thanā ʾismāʿīlu ibnu ʿayyāshin, ʿani al-rabīʿi, ʿani al-barāʾi ibni ʿāzibin, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama suʾila ʿan qawli Allāhi tabāraka wataʿālā: {zidnāhum ʿadhāban fawqa al-ʿadhābi} [al-naḥl: 88] qāla «ʿaqāribu ʾamthālu al-nakhli al-ṭiwāli tanhashuhum fī jahannama»

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from al-Rabīʿ, from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib: The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, was asked about God’s words, blessed and exalted is He, “We shall add punishment to their punishment” (Qurʾān 16:88). He said: “Scorpions like tall palm trees will bite them in Hell.”

٢٦ - نَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عِيسَى، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {زِدْنَاهُمْ عَذَابًا فَوْقَ الْعَذَابِ} [النَّحْل: ٨٨] قَالَ «عَقَارِبُ أَنْيَابُهَا كَالنَّخْلِ الطِّوَالِ»

26 - nā yaḥyā ibnu ʿīsā, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi ibni murrata, ʿan masrūqin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi ibni masʿūdin, fī qawli Allāhi tabāraka wataʿālā: {zidnāhum ʿadhāban fawqa al-ʿadhābi} [al-naḥl: 88] qāla «ʿaqāribu ʾanyābuhā ka-l-nakhli al-ṭiwāli»

Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Murra, from Masrūq, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, concerning God’s words, blessed and exalted is He, “We shall add punishment to their punishment” (Qurʾān 16:88). He said: “Scorpions whose fangs are like tall palm trees.”

The drink of the people of the Fire

بَابُ ذِكْرِ شَرَابِ أَهْلِ النَّارِ

bābu dhikri sharābi ʾahli al-nāri

The drink of the people of the Fire

٢٧ - قَثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، نَا دَرَّاجٌ أَبُو السَّمْحِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {كَالْمُهْلِ} [الْكَهْف: ٢٩] قَالَ: «كَعَكَرِ الزَّيْتِ، فَإِذَا قَرَّبَهُ إِلَيْهِ سَقَطَتْ فَرْوَةُ وَجْهِهِ فِيهِ»

27 - qathanā ibnu lahīʿata, nā darrājun ʾabū al-samḥi, ʿan ʾabī al-haythami, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi, ʿan rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, fī qawlihi tabāraka wataʿālā: {ka-l-muhli} [al-kahf: 29] qāla: «kaʿakari al-zayti, faʾidhā qarrabahu ʾilayhi saqaṭat farwatu wajhihi fīhi»

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; Darrāj Abū al-Samḥ narrated to us, from Abū al-Haytham, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, from the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, concerning God’s words, blessed and exalted is He, “Like molten dregs” (Qurʾān 18:29). He said: “Like the sediment of oil. When he brings it near his face, the skin of his face falls into it.” [The source prints the anomalous opening abbreviation قثنا.]

٢٨ - نَا أَسْبَاطُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ، عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ الْعَوْفِيِّ، قَالَ: سُئِلَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: {كَالْمُهْلِ} [الْكَهْف: ٢٩] قَالَ: «مَاءٌ غَلِيظٌ كَدُرْدِيِّ الزَّيْتِ»

28 - nā ʾasbāṭu ibnu muḥammadin, ʿan muṭarrifin, ʿan ʿaṭiyyata al-ʿawfiyyi, qāla: suʾila ibnu ʿabbāsin ʿan qawlihi taʿālā: {ka-l-muhli} [al-kahf: 29] qāla: «māʾun ghalīẓun kadurdiyyi al-zayti»

Asbāṭ ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, from Muṭarrif, from ʿAṭiyya al-ʿAwfī. He said: Ibn ʿAbbās was asked about the words “like molten dregs” (Qurʾān 18:29). He said: “A thick liquid like the sediment of oil.”

٢٩ - نَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، نَا جُوَيْبِرٌ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ، {بِمَاءٍ كَالْمُهْلِ يَشْوِي الْوُجُوهَ} [الْكَهْف: ٢٩] قَالَ: «مَاءٌ أَسْوَدُ»

29 - nā marwānu ibnu muʿāwiyata, nā juwaybirun, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki, {bimāʾin ka-l-muhli yashwī al-wujūha} [al-kahf: 29] qāla: «māʾun ʾaswadu»

Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya narrated to us; Juwaybir narrated to us, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, concerning “with water like molten dregs that scalds faces” (Qurʾān 18:29). He said: “Black water.”

٣٠ - ثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ دَرَّاجٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ:

30 - thanā ibnu lahīʿata, ʿan darrājin, ʿan ʾabī al-haythami, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, qāla:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us, from Darrāj, from Abū al-Haytham, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«لَوْ أَنَّ دَلْوًا مِنْ غَسَّاقٍ يُهَرَاقُ فِي الدُّيْنَا، لَأَنْتَنَ أَهْلَ الدُّنْيَا»

«law ʾanna dalwan min ghassāqin yuharāqu fī al-duynā, laʾantana ʾahla al-dunyā»

“If a bucket of ghassāq were poured out in this world, it would fill all its people with its stench.”

٣١ - نَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سَالِمٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ بْنِ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {فَلْيَذُوقُوهُ حَمِيمٌ وَغَسَّاقٌ} [صَاد: ٥٧] قَالَ: «الْغَسَّاقُ بَرْدٌ لَا يُسْتَطَاعُ»

31 - nā saʿīdu ibnu sālimin, ʿan ʿabdi al-wahhābi ibni mujāhidin, ʿan ʾabīhi, fī qawlihi tabāraka wataʿālā: {falyadhūqūhu ḥamīmun waghassāqun} [ṣād: 57] qāla: «al-ghassāqu bardun lā yustaṭāʿu»

Saʿīd ibn Sālim narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Mujāhid, from his father, concerning God’s words, blessed and exalted is He: “Let them taste it: boiling water and ghassāq” (Qurʾān 38:57). He said: “Ghassāq is an unbearable cold.”

٣٢ - نَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، نَا أَبُو قَبِيلٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُبَيْرَةَ الزِّيَادِيَّ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ، يَقُولُ:

32 - nā ibnu lahīʿata, nā ʾabū qabīlin, qāla: samiʿtu ʾabā hubayrata al-ziyādiyya, yaqūlu: samiʿtu ʿabda Allāhi ibna ʿamri ibni al-ʿāṣi, yaqūlu:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; Abū Qabīl narrated to us. He said: I heard Abū Hubayra al-Ziyādī say: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ say:

«أَتَدْرُونَ مَا الْغَسَّاقُ؟». قَالُوا: اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ، قَالَ: «هُوَ الْقَيْحُ الْغَلِيظُ، لَوْ أَنَّ قَطْرَةً مِنْهَا تُهَرَاقُ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ أَنْتَنَتْ أَهْلَ الْمَشْرِقِ، وَلَوْ تُهَرَاقُ فِي الْمَشْرِقِ أَنْتَنَتْ أَهْلَ الْمَغْرِبِ»

«ʾatadrūna mā al-ghassāqu?». qālū: Allāhu ʾaʿlamu, qāla: «huwa al-qayḥu al-ghalīẓu, law ʾanna qaṭratan minhā tuharāqu fī al-maghribi ʾantanat ʾahla al-mashriqi, walaw tuharāqu fī al-mashriqi ʾantanat ʾahla al-maghribi»

“Do you know what ghassāq is?” They replied: “God knows best.” He said: “It is thick pus. If one drop were poured out in the west, it would make the people of the east stink; if it were poured out in the east, it would make the people of the west stink.”

٣٣ - نَا نُوحُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ، قَالَ: نَا عَوْنُ بْنُ أَبِي شَدَّادٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍ قَاعِدًا فِي الْحَطِيمِ، فَقَالَ:

33 - nā nūḥu ibnu qaysin, qāla: nā ʿawnu ibnu ʾabī shaddādin, qāla: kāna ʿabdu Allāhi ibnu ʿabbāsin qāʿidan fī al-ḥaṭīmi, faqāla:

Nūḥ ibn Qays narrated to us. He said: ʿAwn ibn Abī Shaddād narrated to us. He said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās was seated in al-Ḥaṭīm and said:

«أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ النَّارِ، لَوْ أَنَّ جَرْعَةً مِنْ غِسْلِينٍ أُهْبِطَتْ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ، لَأَفْسَدَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ عَيْشَهُمْ»

«ʾaʿūdhu bi-llāhi mina al-nāri, law ʾanna jarʿatan min ghislīnin ʾuhbiṭat ʾilā al-ʾarḍi, laʾafsadat ʿalayhim ʿayshahum»

“I seek refuge in God from the Fire. If one mouthful of ghislīn were brought down to earth, it would ruin the lives of its people.”

٣٤ - نَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {تُسْقَى مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ} [الْغَاشِيَة: ٥] قَالَ: «كَانَتِ الْعَرَبُ تَقُولُ إِذَا انْتَهَى حَرُّ الشَيْءِ، لَا يَكُونُ شَيْءٌ أَحَرَّ مِنْهَا: قَدْ أَنَى حَرُّهَا، فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {تُسْقَى مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ} [الْغَاشِيَة: ٥] قَالَ: أُوقِدَتْ عَلَيْهَا جَهَنَّمُ مُنْذُ خُلِقَتْ، فَأَنَى حَرُّهَا»

34 - nā al-mubāraku ibnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, fī qawlihi tabāraka wataʿālā: {tusqā min ʿaynin ʾāniyatin} [al-ghāshiya: 5] qāla: «kānati al-ʿarabu taqūlu ʾidhā antahā ḥarru al-shayʾi, lā yakūnu shayʾun ʾaḥarra minhā: qad ʾanā ḥarruhā, faʾanzala Allāhu tabāraka wataʿālā: {tusqā min ʿaynin ʾāniyatin} [al-ghāshiya: 5] qāla: ʾūqidat ʿalayhā jahannamu mundhu khuliqat, faʾanā ḥarruhā»

Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, concerning God’s words, blessed and exalted is He: “They will drink from a scalding spring” (Qurʾān 88:5). He said: “When the Arabs meant that something had reached the utmost heat and nothing could be hotter, they said, ‘Its heat has reached its peak.’ So God, blessed and exalted is He, revealed, ‘They will drink from a scalding spring.’ He said: Hell has been stoked beneath it since its creation, until its heat reached that peak.”

٣٥ - قَالَ الطَّبَرَانِيُّ: ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ مَعِينٍ، نَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ وَاصِلٍ، وَأَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ الْحَدَّادُ، نَا هِشَامُ بْنُ حَسَّانَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ شَبِيبٍ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ أَبِي وَحْشِيَّةَ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

35 - qāla al-ṭabarāniyyu: thanā ʿabdu Allāhi ibnu ʾaḥmada ibni ḥanbalin, qāla: ḥaddathanī yaḥyā ibnu maʿīnin, nā ʿabdu al-wāḥidi ibnu wāṣilin, waʾabū ʿubaydata al-ḥaddādu, nā hishāmu ibnu ḥassāna, ʿan muḥammadi ibni shabībin, ʿan jaʿfari ibni ʾabī waḥshiyyata, ʿan saʿīdi ibni jubayrin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Al-Ṭabarānī said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal narrated to us. He said: Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn related to me; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Wāṣil and Abū ʿUbayda al-Ḥaddād narrated to us; Hishām ibn Ḥassān narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Shabīb, from Jaʿfar ibn Abī Waḥshiyya, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Abū Hurayra, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«لَوْ أَنَّ قَطْرَةً مِنْ قَطِرَانِ جَهَنَّمَ وَقَعَتْ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ، لَأَحْرَقَتِ الْأَرْضَ وَمَنْ فِيهَا»

«law ʾanna qaṭratan min qaṭirāni jahannama waqaʿat ʾilā al-ʾarḍi, laʾaḥraqati al-ʾarḍa waman fīhā»

“If one drop of Hell’s pitch were to fall to earth, it would burn the earth and everyone on it.”

٣٦ - نَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عِيسَى، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ:

36 - nā yaḥyā ibnu ʿīsā, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʾabī yaḥyā, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin, qāla:

Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Yaḥyā, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:

«لَوْ أَنَّ قَطْرَةً مِنْ زَقُّومِ جَهَنَّمَ نَزَلَتْ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا، لَأَفْسَدَتْ عَلَى النَّاسِ مَعَاشَهُمْ»

«law ʾanna qaṭratan min zaqqūmi jahannama nazalat ʾilā al-dunyā, laʾafsadat ʿalā al-nāsi maʿāshahum»

“If one drop from the zaqqūm of Hell fell into this world, it would ruin people’s livelihood.”

The severity of punishment in the Fire

بَابُ ذِكْرِ شِدَّةِ عَذَابِ أَهْلِ النَّارِ

bābu dhikri shiddati ʿadhābi ʾahli al-nāri

The severity of punishment in the Fire

٣٧ - نَا الْفُضَيْلُ بْنُ عِيَاضٍ، عَنْ هِشَامٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ:

37 - nā al-fuḍaylu ibnu ʿiyāḍin, ʿan hishāmin, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla:

Al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ narrated to us, from Hishām, from al-Ḥasan, who said:

«تَأْكُلُهُمُ النَّارُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ مَرَّةٍ، كُلَّمَا أَنْضَجَتْهُمْ وَأَكَلَتْهُمْ، قِيلَ: عُودُوا، فَيَعُودُونَ كَمَا كَانُوا أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ»

«taʾkuluhumu al-nāru kulla yawmin sabʿīna ʾalfa marratin, kullamā ʾanḍajathum waʾakalathum, qīla: ʿūdū, fayaʿūdūna kamā kānū ʾawwala marratin»

“The Fire consumes them seventy thousand times each day. Whenever it has cooked and consumed them, it is said, ‘Return,’ and they return as they were at first.”

٣٨ - نَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ مِقْسَمٍ، عَنْ عَمْرٍو، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، وَقَتَادَةَ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: {سَأُرْهِقَهُ صَعُودًا} [الْمُدَّثِّر: ١٧] قَالَ: «عَذَابًا لَا رَاحَةَ فِيهِ»

38 - nā ʿuthmānu ibnu miqsamin, ʿan ʿamrin, ʿani al-ḥasani, waqatādata, fī qawlihi taʿālā: {saʾurhiqahu ṣaʿūdan} [al-muddaththir: 17] qāla: «ʿadhāban lā rāḥata fīhi»

ʿUthmān ibn Miqsam narrated to us, from ʿAmr, from al-Ḥasan and Qatāda, concerning God’s words, “I shall burden him with Ṣaʿūd” (Qurʾān 74:17). He said: “A punishment in which there is no respite.”

٣٩ - نَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَازِمٍ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ:

39 - nā muḥammadu ibnu khāzimin, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan mujāhidin, qāla:

Muḥammad ibn Khāzim narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Mujāhid, who said:

«يُلْقَى الْجَرَبُ عَلَى أَهْلِ النَّارِ فَيَحْتَكُّونَ حَتَّى يَبْدُوَ الْعَظْمُ، فَيَقُولُونَ: بِمَ أَصَابَنَا هَذَا؟ فَيَقُولُ: بِأَذَاكُمُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ»

«yulqā al-jarabu ʿalā ʾahli al-nāri fayaḥtakkūna ḥattā yabduwa al-ʿaẓmu, fayaqūlūna: bima ʾaṣābanā hadhā? fayaqūlu: biʾadhākumu al-muʾminīna»

“A skin disease is cast upon the people of the Fire. They scratch until the bone is exposed and ask, ‘Why has this happened to us?’ It is said: ‘Because you harmed the believers.’”

٤٠ - نَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ الْخَثْعَمِيِّ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ الْعِجْلِيِّ، عَنْ شُفَيِّ بْنِ مَاتِعٍ الْأَصْبَحِيِّ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ:

40 - nā ʾismāʿīlu ibnu ʿayyāshin, ʿan thaʿlabata ibni muslimin al-khathʿamiyyi, ʿan ʾayyūba ibni bashīrin al-ʿijliyyi, ʿan shufayyi ibni mātiʿin al-ʾaṣbaḥiyyi, ʿan rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾannahu qāla:

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from Thaʿlaba ibn Muslim al-Khathʿamī, from Ayyūb ibn Bashīr al-ʿIjlī, from Shufayy ibn Mātiʿ al-Aṣbaḥī, from the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«أَرْبَعَةٌ يُؤْذُونَ أَهْلَ النَّارِ عَلَى مَا بِهِمْ مِنَ الْأَذَى، يَسْعَوْنَ بَيْنَ الْحَمِيمِ وَالْجَحِيمِ، يَدْعُونَ بِالْوَيْلِ وَالثُّبُورِ، وَيَقُولُ أَهْلُ النَّارِ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ: مَا بَالُ هَؤُلَاءِ قَدْ آذَوْنَا عَلَى مَا بِنَا مِنَ الْأَذَى؟ قَالَ: فَرَجُلٌ مُغْلَقٌ عَلَيْهِ تَابُوتٌ مِنْ جَمْرٍ، وَرَجُلٌ يَجُرُّ أَمْعَاءَهُ، وَرَجُلٌ يَسِيلُ فُوهُ قَيْحًا وَدَمًا، وَرَجُلٌ يَأْكُلُ لَحْمَهُ.

«ʾarbaʿatun yuʾdhūna ʾahla al-nāri ʿalā mā bihim mina al-ʾadhā, yasʿawna bayna al-ḥamīmi wa-l-jaḥīmi, yadʿūna bi-l-wayli wa-l-thubūri, wayaqūlu ʾahlu al-nāri baʿḍuhum libaʿḍin: mā bālu haʾulāʾi qad ʾādhawnā ʿalā mā binā mina al-ʾadhā? qāla: farajulun mughlaqun ʿalayhi tābūtun min jamrin, warajulun yajurru ʾamʿāʾahu, warajulun yasīlu fūhu qayḥan wadaman, warajulun yaʾkulu laḥmahu.

“Four people cause distress to the inhabitants of the Fire despite all the suffering they already endure. They rush between boiling water and the blaze, crying out in woe and ruin. The people of the Fire say to one another, ‘What is the matter with these people? They have added to our distress when we already have enough.’ One man is shut inside a coffin of embers; one drags his intestines; pus and blood flow from another’s mouth; and one eats his own flesh.

قَالَ: فَيُقَالُ لِصَاحِبِ التَّابُوتِ: مَا بَالُ الْأَبْعَدِ قَدْ آذَانَا عَلَى مَا بِنَا مِنَ الْأَذَى؟ قَالَ: فَيَقُولُ: إِنَّ الْأَبْعَدَ مَاتَ وَفِي عُنُقِهِ أَمْوَالُ النَّاسِ، لَمْ يَجِدْ لَهَا قَضَاءً أَوْ وَفَاءً.

qāla: fayuqālu liṣāḥibi al-tābūti: mā bālu al-ʾabʿadi qad ʾādhānā ʿalā mā binā mina al-ʾadhā? qāla: fayaqūlu: ʾinna al-ʾabʿada māta wafī ʿunuqihi ʾamwālu al-nāsi, lam yajid lahā qaḍāʾan ʾaw wafāʾan.

The man in the coffin is asked, ‘What is the matter with this wretch? He has added to our suffering.’ He answers: ‘He died bearing people’s property as a debt, with no means of settling or repaying it.’

ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لِلَّذِي يَجُرُّ أَمْعَاءَهُ: مَا بَالُ الْأَبْعَدِ قَدْ آذَانَا عَلَى مَا بِنَا مِنَ الْأَذَى؟ فَيُقَالُ: إِنَّ الْأَبْعَدَ كَانَ لَا يُبَالِي أَيْنَ مَا أَصَابَ الْبَوْلُ مِنْهُ لَا يَغْسِلُهُ.

thumma yuqālu li-l-adhī yajurru ʾamʿāʾahu: mā bālu al-ʾabʿadi qad ʾādhānā ʿalā mā binā mina al-ʾadhā? fayuqālu: ʾinna al-ʾabʿada kāna lā yubālī ʾayna mā ʾaṣāba al-bawlu minhu lā yaghsiluhu.

Then the one dragging his intestines is asked the same question. It is said: ‘He did not care where his urine landed on his body and did not wash it off.’

ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لِلَّذِي يَسِيلُ فُوهُ قَيْحًا وَدَمًا: مَا بَالُ الْأَبْعَدِ قَدْ آذَانَا عَلَى مَا بِنَا مِنَ الْأَذَى؟ فَيُقَالُ: إِنَّ الْأَبْعَدَ كَانَ يَنْظُرُ إِلَى كَلِمَةٍ خَبِيثَةٍ يَسْتَلِذُّهَا كَمَا يَسْتَلِذُّ الرَّفَثَ.

thumma yuqālu li-l-adhī yasīlu fūhu qayḥan wadaman: mā bālu al-ʾabʿadi qad ʾādhānā ʿalā mā binā mina al-ʾadhā? fayuqālu: ʾinna al-ʾabʿada kāna yanẓuru ʾilā kalimatin khabīthatin yastalidhdhuhā kamā yastalidhdhu al-rafatha.

Then the one whose mouth flows with pus and blood is asked the same question. It is said: ‘He used to seek out vile words and savor them as one savors obscene talk.’

قَالَ: ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لِلَّذِي يَأْكُلُ لَحْمَهُ: مَا بَالُ الْأَبْعَدِ قَدْ آذَانَا عَلَى مَا بِنَا مِنَ الْأَذَى؟ فَيُقَالُ: إِنَّ الْأَبْعَدَ كَانَ يَأْكُلُ لُحُومَ النَّاسِ بِالْغِيبَةِ، وَيَمْشِي بِالنَّمِيمَةِ»

qāla: thumma yuqālu li-l-adhī yaʾkulu laḥmahu: mā bālu al-ʾabʿadi qad ʾādhānā ʿalā mā binā mina al-ʾadhā? fayuqālu: ʾinna al-ʾabʿada kāna yaʾkulu luḥūma al-nāsi bi-l-ghībati, wayamshī bi-l-namīmati»

Then the one eating his flesh is asked the same question. It is said: ‘He used to eat people’s flesh by backbiting them and went about spreading malicious tales.’”

٤١ - نَا بَكْرُ بْنُ خُنَيْسٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

41 - nā bakru ibnu khunaysin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi ibni al-ḥasani, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Bakr ibn Khunays narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«يَا جِبْرِيلُ حَدِّثْنِي عَنِ النَّارِ. قَالَ: وَالَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ لَوْ أَنَّ مِثْلَ خَرْقِ الْإِبْرَةِ خُرِقَ مِنْهَا لَاحْتَرَقَ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ كُلُّهُمْ. وَالَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ لَوْ أَنَّ خَازِنًا مِنْ خُزَّانِ جَهَنَّمَ أُخْرِجَ، لَمَاتَ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ إِذَا نَظَرُوا إِلَيْهِ؛ لِمَا يَرَوْنَ مِنْ تَشْوِيهِ خَلْقِهِ , وَالَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ لَوْ أَنَّ ثَوْبًا مِنْ ثِيَابِ أَهْلِ جَهَنَّمَ عُلِّقَ بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ، لَمَاتَ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ؛ مِنْ نَتَنِ رِيحِهِ»

«yā jibrīlu ḥaddithnī ʿani al-nāri. qāla: wa-l-adhī baʿathaka bi-l-ḥaqqi law ʾanna mithla kharqi al-ʾibrati khuriqa minhā lāḥtaraqa ʾahlu al-ʾarḍi kulluhum. wa-l-adhī baʿathaka bi-l-ḥaqqi law ʾanna khāzinan min khuzzāni jahannama ʾukhrija, lamāta ʾahlu al-ʾarḍi ʾidhā naẓarū ʾilayhi; limā yarawna min tashwīhi khalqihi , wa-l-adhī baʿathaka bi-l-ḥaqqi law ʾanna thawban min thiyābi ʾahli jahannama ʿulliqa bayna al-samāʾi wa-l-ʾarḍi, lamāta ʾahlu al-ʾarḍi; min natani rīḥihi»

“Gabriel, tell me about the Fire.” He replied: “By the One who sent you with the truth, if an opening no larger than a needle’s eye were made in it, everyone on earth would burn. By the One who sent you with the truth, if one of Hell’s keepers were brought out, everyone on earth would die at the sight of him, so dreadful is his form. By the One who sent you with the truth, if one garment worn by the people of Hell were hung between heaven and earth, everyone on earth would die from its stench.”

٤٢ - نَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ أَبَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

42 - nā yazīdu ibnu ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan ʾabāna, ʿan ʾabī qilābata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Yazīd ibn ʿAṭāʾ narrated to us, from Abān, from Abū Qilāba, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«بَيْنَمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي مَسِيرٍ لَهُ فِي شِدَّةِ الْحَرِّ، إِذْ نَزَلَ بِالظَّهِيرَةِ، فَضُرِبَ لَهُ بِنَاءٌ، وَاشْتَدَّ عَلَى الْقَوْمِ حَرُّ الشَّمْسِ مِنْ فَوْقِهِمْ، وَالرَّمْضَاءُ مِنْ تَحْتِهِمْ، حَتَّى جَعَلَ الرَّجُلُ يَكَادُ يَتَنَاوَلُ قَدَمَيْهِ تَنَاوُلًا ثُمَّ يَتَلَفَّفُ فِي عَبَاءَتِهِ، ثُمَّ يَنْجَدِلُ فِي الشَّمْسِ،

«baynamā rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fī masīrin lahu fī shiddati al-ḥarri, ʾidh nazala bi-l-ẓahīrati, faḍuriba lahu bināʾun, wāshtadda ʿalā al-qawmi ḥarru al-shamsi min fawqihim, wa-l-ramḍāʾu min taḥtihim, ḥattā jaʿala al-rajulu yakādu yatanāwalu qadamayhi tanāwulan thumma yatalaffafu fī ʿabāʾatihi, thumma yanjadilu fī al-shamsi,

“While the Messenger of God was traveling in intense heat, he stopped at midday and a shelter was set up for him. The sun scorched the people from above and the burning ground from below. A man could scarcely bear to touch his feet; he would wrap himself in his cloak and collapse in the sun.

فَأَرَادَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنْ يُعَزِّيَهُمْ فَنَادَاهُمْ:» أَلَا أَرَاكُمْ تَجْزَعُونَ مِنْ حَرِّ الشَّمْسِ، وَبَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ وَالَّذِي نَفْسُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ لَوْ أَنَّ بَابًا مِنْ أَبْوَابِ جَهَنَّمَ فُتِحَ بِالْمَشْرِقِ لَغَلَى دِمَاغُ أُنَاسٍ بِالْمَغْرِبِ، حَتَّى تَسِيلَ مَنَاخِرُهِمْ مِنْ حَرِّهَا "

faʾarāda al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾan yuʿazziyahum fanādāhum:» ʾalā ʾarākum tajzaʿūna min ḥarri al-shamsi, wabaynakum wabayna al-samāʾi masīratu khamsimiʾati ʿāmin wa-l-adhī nafsu muḥammadin biyadihi law ʾanna bāban min ʾabwābi jahannama futiḥa bi-l-mashriqi laghalā dimāghu ʾunāsin bi-l-maghribi, ḥattā tasīla manākhiruhim min ḥarrihā "

The Prophet wished to console them and called out: ‘I see you are distressed by the sun’s heat, though between you and heaven lies a journey of five hundred years. By Him in whose hand is Muḥammad’s soul, if one of Hell’s gates were opened in the east, the brains of people in the west would boil, and their nostrils would run from its heat.’”

The bridge and the crossing over it

بَابُ ذِكْرِ الصِّرَاطِ وَالْمَمَرِّ عَلَيْهِ

bābu dhikri al-ṣirāṭi wa-l-mamarri ʿalayhi

The bridge and the crossing over it

٤٣ - نَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ، عَنْ سَلْمَانَ الْفَارِسِيِّ، قَالَ:

43 - nā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan thābitin al-bunāniyyi, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna al-nahdiyyi, ʿan salmāna al-fārisiyyi, qāla:

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, from Salmān al-Fārisī, who said:

«يُؤْتَى بِالصِّرَاطِ، حَدُّهُ كَحَدِّ الْمُوسَى فَتَقُولُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ: يَا رَبَّنَا - أَوْ كَلِمَةً غَيْرَ هَذَا، أَكْبَرُ ظَنِّي أَنَّهُ - مَنْ يُجِيزُ عَلَى هَذَا؟ فَيَقُولُ: مَنْ شِئْتُ مِنْ خَلْقِي. قَالَ: فَيَقُولُونَ: رَبَّنَا مَا عَبَدْنَاكَ حَقَّ عِبَادَتِكَ»

«yuʾtā bi-l-ṣirāṭi, ḥadduhu kaḥaddi al-mūsā fataqūlu al-malāʾikatu: yā rabbanā - ʾaw kalimatan ghayra hadhā, ʾakbaru ẓannī ʾannahu - man yujīzu ʿalā hadhā? fayaqūlu: man shiʾtu min khalqī. qāla: fayaqūlūna: rabbanā mā ʿabadnāka ḥaqqa ʿibādatika»

“The Ṣirāṭ will be brought forth, its edge as sharp as a razor’s. The angels will say, ‘Our Lord’—or something like that; I think it was—‘Who can cross this?’ He will say, ‘Whomever I wish among My creatures.’ They will say, ‘Our Lord, we have not worshiped You as You deserve.’”

٤٤ - نَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ، نَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ، عَنْ بِشْرِ بْنِ شَغَافٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلَامٍ، قَالَ:

44 - nā mahdiyyu ibnu maymūnin, nā muḥammadu ibnu ʿabdi Allāhi ibni ʾabī yaʿqūba, ʿan bishri ibni shaghāfin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi ibni salāmin, qāla:

Mahdī ibn Maymūn narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Yaʿqūb narrated to us, from Bishr ibn Shaghāf, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām, who said:

«كَانَ أَكْرَمَ خَلِيقَةِ اللَّهِ عَلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى، أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ فِي السَّمَاءِ، وَإِنَّ النَّارَ فِي الْأَرْضِ، وَإِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ، جَمَعَ اللَّهُ الْخَلَائِقَ أُمَّةً أُمَّةً، وَنَبِيٍّا نَبِيًّا، حَتَّى يَكُونَ أَحْمَدُ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ هُوَ وَأُمَّتُهُ آخِرَ الْقَوْمِ مَرْكَزًا، ثُمَّ يُوضَعُ جِسْرٌ عَلَى جَهَنَّمَ،

«kāna ʾakrama khalīqati Allāhi ʿalā Allāhi taʿālā, ʾabū al-qāsimi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, waʾinna al-jannata fī al-samāʾi, waʾinna al-nāra fī al-ʾarḍi, waʾidhā kāna yawmu al-qiyāmati, jamaʿa Allāhu al-khalāʾiqa ʾummatan ʾummatan, wanabiyyin nabiyyan, ḥattā yakūna ʾaḥmadu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama huwa waʾummatuhu ʾākhira al-qawmi markazan, thumma yūḍaʿu jisrun ʿalā jahannama,

“Abū al-Qāsim, God bless him and grant him peace, was the most honored of God’s creatures before God Most High. Paradise is in heaven and the Fire is in the earth. On the Day of Resurrection, God will gather creation community by community and prophet by prophet, until Aḥmad, God bless him and grant him peace, and his community take their place last. A bridge will then be laid over Hell,

ثُمَّ يُنَادِي مُنَادٍ: أَيْنَ أَحْمَدُ وَأُمَّتُهُ؟ قَالَ: فَيَقُومُ وَتَتْبَعُهُ أُمَّتُهُ، بَرُّهَا وَفَاجِرُهَا، فَيَأْخُذُونَ الْجِسْرَ، فَيَطْمِسُ اللَّهُ أَبْصَارَ أَعْدَائِهِ، فَيَتَهَافَتُونَ فِيهَا مِنْ يَمِينٍ وَمِنْ شِمَالٍ، وَيَمُرُّ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَالصَّالِحُونَ مَعَهُ، فَتَلَقَّاهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ تُبَوِّئُهُمْ مَنَازِلَهُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ عَلَى يَمِينِكَ، عَلَى يَسَارِكَ حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ إِلَى رَبِّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى، فَيُلْقَى لَهُ كُرْسِيُّ عَنْ يَمِينِ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى،

thumma yunādī munādin: ʾayna ʾaḥmadu waʾummatuhu? qāla: fayaqūmu watatbaʿuhu ʾummatuhu, barruhā wafājiruhā, fayaʾkhudhūna al-jisra, fayaṭmisu Allāhu ʾabṣāra ʾaʿdāʾihi, fayatahāfatūna fīhā min yamīnin wamin shimālin, wayamurru al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama wa-l-ṣāliḥūna maʿahu, fatalaqqāhumu al-malāʾikatu tubawwiʾuhum manāzilahum mina al-jannati ʿalā yamīnika, ʿalā yasārika ḥattā yantahiya ʾilā rabbihi tabāraka wataʿālā, fayulqā lahu kursiyyu ʿan yamīni Allāhi tabāraka wataʿālā,

and a caller will announce, ‘Where are Aḥmad and his community?’ He will rise and his community will follow him, righteous and sinful alike. They will take the bridge, and God will blot out the sight of his enemies, who will plunge into the Fire to right and left. The Prophet and the righteous with him will cross. The angels will meet them and assign them dwellings in Paradise, to right and left, until he comes before his Lord, blessed and exalted is He. A chair will be placed for him at the right of God, blessed and exalted is He.

ثُمَّ يُنَادِي مُنَادٍ: أَيْنَ عِيسَى وَأُمَّتُهُ؟ قَالَ: فَيَقُومُ، فَتَتْبَعُهُ أُمَّتُهُ بَرُّهَا وَفَاجِرُهَا، فَيَأْخُذُونَ الْجِسْرَ، فَيَطْمِسُ اللَّهُ أَبْصَارَ أَعْدَائِهِ، فَيَتَهَافَتُونَ فِيهَا مِنْ شِمَالِ وَمِنْ يَمِينٍ، وَيَنْجُو النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَالصَّالِحُونَ مَعَهُ، فَتَلَقَّاهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ تُبَوِّئُهُمْ مَنَازِلَهُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ عَلَى يَمِينِكَ، عَلَى يَسَارِكَ حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ إِلَى رَبِّهِ تَعَالَى، فَيُلْقَى لَهُ كُرْسِيٌّ مِنَ الْجَانِبِ الْآخَرِ،

thumma yunādī munādin: ʾayna ʿīsā waʾummatuhu? qāla: fayaqūmu, fatatbaʿuhu ʾummatuhu barruhā wafājiruhā, fayaʾkhudhūna al-jisra, fayaṭmisu Allāhu ʾabṣāra ʾaʿdāʾihi, fayatahāfatūna fīhā min shimāli wamin yamīnin, wayanjū al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama wa-l-ṣāliḥūna maʿahu, fatalaqqāhumu al-malāʾikatu tubawwiʾuhum manāzilahum mina al-jannati ʿalā yamīnika, ʿalā yasārika ḥattā yantahiya ʾilā rabbihi taʿālā, fayulqā lahu kursiyyun mina al-jānibi al-ʾākhari,

Then a caller will announce, ‘Where are Jesus and his community?’ He will rise and his community will follow him, righteous and sinful alike. They will take the bridge, and God will blot out the sight of his enemies, who will plunge into the Fire to left and right. The prophet and the righteous with him will be saved. The angels will meet them and assign them dwellings in Paradise, to right and left, until he comes before his Lord Most High. A chair will be placed for him on the other side.

ثُمَّ تَتْبَعُهُمُ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ وَالْأُمَمُ، حَتَّى يَكُونَ آخِرَهُمْ نُوحٌ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ»

thumma tatbaʿuhumu al-ʾanbiyāʾu wa-l-ʾumamu, ḥattā yakūna ʾākhirahum nūḥun ʿalayhi al-salāmu»

Then the prophets and communities will follow them, the last of them being Noah, peace be upon him.”

٤٥ - نَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ طَلْحَةَ، عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ:

45 - nā muḥammadu ibnu ṭalḥata, ʿan zubaydin, ʿan mujāhidin, qāla:

Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥa narrated to us, from Zubayd, from Mujāhid, who said:

«الصِّرَاطُ كَحَدِّ السَّيْفِ - أَوْ كَحَرْفِ السَّيْفِ - دَحْضٌ مَزِلَّةٌ، بِجَنْبَتَيْهِ مَلَائِكَةٌ مَعَهُمْ كَلَالِيبُ، يَقُولُونَ: اللَّهُمَّ سَلِّمْ سَلِّمْ. قَالَ: فَيَمُرُّ النَّاسُ عَلَيْهِ كَالْبَرْقِ، وَكَالطَّيْرِ، وَكَالرِّيحِ، وَكَأَجْوَدِ الْخَيْلِ، وَالرَّاكِبِ، فَمِنْ مُسَلَّمٍ نَاجٍ، وَمِنْ مَخْدُوشٍ نَاجٍ، وَمِنْ مَرْكُوسٍ فِي النَّارِ»

«al-ṣirāṭu kaḥaddi al-sayfi - ʾaw kaḥarfi al-sayfi - daḥḍun mazillatun, bijanbatayhi malāʾikatun maʿahum kalālību, yaqūlūna: al-lahumma sallim sallim. qāla: fayamurru al-nāsu ʿalayhi ka-l-barqi, wakālṭṭayri, wakālrrīḥi, wakaʾajwadi al-khayli, wa-l-rākibi, famin musallamin nājin, wamin makhdūshin nājin, wamin markūsin fī al-nāri»

“The Ṣirāṭ is as sharp as the edge of a sword—or its blade—and slippery underfoot. On either side stand angels with hooks, saying, ‘O God, grant safety, grant safety.’ People will pass over it like lightning, birds, wind, the swiftest horses, or a rider. Some will emerge unharmed and safe, some scratched but safe, and some will be flung headfirst into the Fire.”

٤٦ - نَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، نَا أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:

46 - nā ibnu lahīʿata, nā ʾabū al-zubayri, ʿan jābirin, qāla: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; Abū al-Zubayr narrated to us, from Jābir, who said: I heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, say:

«يُعْطَى كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ مُنَافِقٍ وَمُؤْمِنٍ نُورًا، وَيَغْشَاهُ ظُلْمَةٌ، ثُمَّ يَتَّبِعُونَهُ مَعَهُمُ الْمُنَافِقُونَ عَلَى جِسْرِ جَهَنَّمَ، فِيهَا كَلَالِيبُ وَحَسَكٌ، يَأْخُذُونَ مَنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ، ثُمَّ يُطْفَأُ نُورُ الْمُنَافِقِ وَيَنْجُو الْمُؤْمِنُ. فَيَنْجُو أَوَّلُ زُمْرَةٍ، وُجُوهُهُمْ كَالْقَمَرِ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ، سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا لَا يُحَاسَبُونَ، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ كَأَضْوَإِ نَجْمٍ فِي السَّمَاءِ، ثُمَّ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى تَحِلَّ الشَّفَاعَةُ، فَيُشَفَّعُونَ».

«yuʿṭā kullu ʾinsānin munāfiqin wamuʾminin nūran, wayaghshāhu ẓulmatun, thumma yattabiʿūnahu maʿahumu al-munāfiqūna ʿalā jisri jahannama, fīhā kalālību waḥasakun, yaʾkhudhūna man shāʾa Allāhu, thumma yuṭfaʾu nūru al-munāfiqi wayanjū al-muʾminu. fayanjū ʾawwalu zumratin, wujūhuhum ka-l-qamari laylata al-badri, sabʿūna ʾalfan lā yuḥāsabūna, thumma al-adhīna yalūnahum kaʾaḍwaʾi najmin fī al-samāʾi, thumma kadhalika ḥattā taḥilla al-shafāʿatu, fayushaffaʿūna».

“Every person, hypocrite and believer alike, will be given a light. Darkness will cover them, and they will proceed together with the hypocrites on the bridge over Hell. There are hooks and thorns there that seize whomever God wills. Then the hypocrite’s light is extinguished, while the believer is saved. The first group to escape—seventy thousand who will not be called to account—will have faces like the full moon. Those following them will be like the brightest star in the sky. Thus it will continue until intercession is permitted and intercessors intercede.”

٤٧ - ثَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، قَالَ: ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ:

47 - thanā marwānu ibnu muʿāwiyata, qāla: thanā al-ḥasanu ibnu sālimi ibni ʾabī al-jaʿdi, ʿan ʾabīhi, qāla:

Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya narrated to us. He said: al-Ḥasan ibn Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd narrated to us, from his father, who said:

«إِنَّ عَلَى النَّارِ ثَلَاثَ قَنَاطِرَ: قَنْطَرَةٌ عَلَيْهَا الْأَمَانَةُ، لَا يَمُرُّ بِهَا مُضَيِّعُ الْأَمَانَةِ إِلَّا قَالَتْ: رَبِّ هَذَا ضَيَّعَنِي، وَقَنْطَرَةٌ عَلَيْهَا الرَّحِمُ، لَا يَمُرُّ بِهَا قَاطَعُ رَحِمٍ، إِلَّا تَقُولُ: رَبِّ هَذَا قَطَعَنِي، وَقَنْطَرَةٌ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى عَلَيْهَا بِالْمِرْصَادِ». قَالَ سَالِمٌ: وَلَا يَنْجُو مِنْهَا إِلَّا نَاجٍ

«ʾinna ʿalā al-nāri thalātha qanāṭira: qanṭaratun ʿalayhā al-ʾamānatu, lā yamurru bihā muḍayyiʿu al-ʾamānati ʾillā qālat: rabbi hadhā ḍayyaʿanī, waqanṭaratun ʿalayhā al-raḥimu, lā yamurru bihā qāṭaʿu raḥimin, ʾillā taqūlu: rabbi hadhā qaṭaʿanī, waqanṭaratun Allāhu tabāraka wataʿālā ʿalayhā bi-l-mirṣādi». qāla sālimun: walā yanjū minhā ʾillā nājin

“Over the Fire are three crossings. At one stands the trust: no one who betrayed a trust passes without its saying, ‘My Lord, this one betrayed me.’ At another stand family ties: no one who severed them passes without their saying, ‘My Lord, this one cut me off.’ At the third, God, blessed and exalted is He, lies in wait.” Sālim said: “Only someone who is truly saved escapes it.”

٤٨ - نَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، قَالَ: أَنَا أَبُو الْفَيْضِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الشَّعْبِيَّ، يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

48 - nā marwānu ibnu muʿāwiyata, qāla: ʾanā ʾabū al-fayḍi, qāla: samiʿtu al-shaʿbiyya, yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya narrated to us. He said: Abū al-Fayḍ informed us. He said: I heard al-Shaʿbī say: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«عَلَى جَهَنَّمَ جِسْرٌ يَمُرُّ بِهِ الرَّجُلُ أَسْرَعَ مِنَ الْبَرْقِ، وَمِنَ الرِّيحِ، وَمِنَ الطَّيْرِ»

«ʿalā jahannama jisrun yamurru bihi al-rajulu ʾasraʿa mina al-barqi, wamina al-rīḥi, wamina al-ṭayri»

“Over Hell is a bridge which a man may cross faster than lightning, wind, or a bird.”

٤٩ - نَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

49 - nā al-mubāraku ibnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«الصِّرَاطُ بَيْنَ ظَهْرَيْ جَهَنَّمَ، جَنْبَتَاهُ كَلَالِيبُ وَحَسَكٌ كَثِيرٌ، يَحْتَبِسُ اللَّهُ بِهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ مِنَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ، وَالْمُنَافِقُونَ يَوْمَئِذٍ مَعَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، وَيُدْفَعُ إِلَى كُلِّ مُؤْمِنٍ وَمُنَافِقٍ نُورٌ يَمْشُونَ بِهِ عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ، إِذْ غَشِيَتْهُمْ ظُلْمَةٌ، فَجَعَلَتْ تُطْفِئُ نُورَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ، وَتُضِئُ نُورَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ حَتَّى يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ، وَضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُمْ بِسُوَرٍ لَهُ بَابٌ بَاطِنُهُ فِيهِ الرَّحْمَةُ وَظَاهِرُهُ مِنْ قِبَلِهِ الْعَذَابُ» وَالرَّحْمَةُ: الْجَنَّةُ، قَالَ الْحَسَنُ: فَثَمَّ أَدْرَكَتْهُمْ خَدِيعَةُ اللَّهِ، وَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى: {يُخَادِعُونَ اللَّهَ وَهُوَ خَادِعُهُمْ} [النِّسَاء: ١٤٢] عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ

«al-ṣirāṭu bayna ẓahray jahannama, janbatāhu kalālību waḥasakun kathīrun, yaḥtabisu Allāhu bihi man yashāʾu mina al-munāfiqīna, wa-l-munāfiqūna yawmaʾidhin maʿa al-muʾminīna, wayudfaʿu ʾilā kulli muʾminin wamunāfiqin nūrun yamshūna bihi ʿalā al-ṣirāṭi, ʾidh ghashiyathum ẓulmatun, fajaʿalat tuṭfiʾu nūra al-munāfiqīna, watuḍiʾu nūra al-muʾminīna ḥattā yadkhulūna al-jannata, waḍuriba baynahum bisuwarin lahu bābun bāṭinuhu fīhi al-raḥmatu waẓāhiruhu min qibalihi al-ʿadhābu» wa-l-raḥmatu: al-jannatu, qāla al-ḥasanu: fathamma ʾadrakathum khadīʿatu Allāhi, wadhalika qawluhu taʿālā: {yukhādiʿūna Allāha wahuwa khādiʿuhum} [al-nisāʾ: 142] ʿalā al-ṣirāṭi

“The Ṣirāṭ stretches across Hell. Along either side are many hooks and thorns by which God detains whichever hypocrites He wills. On that day the hypocrites will be among the believers. Each believer and hypocrite will be given a light by which to walk on the Ṣirāṭ. Then darkness will overtake them, extinguishing the hypocrites’ lights while the believers’ lights shine until they enter Paradise. A wall with a gate will be set between them: inside it is mercy, and facing outward is punishment.” Mercy means Paradise. Al-Ḥasan said: “It is there that God’s countermeasure will overtake them. This is the meaning of His words, ‘They seek to deceive God, but He outwits them’” (Qurʾān 4:142), “on the Ṣirāṭ.”

٥٠ - ثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {وَإِنْ مِنْكُمْ إِلَّا وَارِدُهَا} [مَرْيَم: ٧١] قَالَ: «الصِّرَاطُ»

50 - thanā wakīʿun, ʿan ʾisrāʾīla, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi, fī qawlihi tabāraka wataʿālā: {waʾin minkum ʾillā wāriduhā} [maryam: 71] qāla: «al-ṣirāṭu»

Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Isrāʾīl, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from ʿAbd Allāh, concerning God’s words, blessed and exalted is He, “There is not one of you who will not come to it” (Qurʾān 19:71). He said: “The Ṣirāṭ.”

٥١ - ثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ زَرْبِيٍّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي ثَابِتٌ الْبُنَانِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ:

51 - thanā saʿīdu ibnu zarbiyyin, qāla: ḥaddathanī thābitun al-bunāniyyu, qāla: ḥaddathanī ʾanasu ibnu mālikin, qāla: ḥaddathanī rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, qāla:

Saʿīd ibn Zarbī narrated to us. He said: Thābit al-Bunānī related to me. He said: Anas ibn Mālik related to me. He said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, related to me. He said:

«حَدَّثَنِي جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ: إِنَّ آخِرَ مَنْ يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ رَجُلٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ: يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ مُرَّ عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ، قَالَ: فَيَمُرُّ فَتَزِلُّ قَدَمُهُ، وَيَسْتَمْسِكُ بِالْأُخْرَى، فَتَزِلُّ رُكْبَتُهُ، وَيَسْتَمْسِكُ بِالْأُخْرَى، وَالنَّارُ تَأْخُذُ مِنْهُ، فَتَرْمِيهِ بِشَرَرِهَا، وَتَلْذَعُهُ بِلَهَبِهَا، كُلَّمَا أَصَابَهُ شَيْءٌ مِنْهَا، ضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ عَلَيْهِ وَقَالَ:...... حَتَّى يَنْجُوَ مِنْهَا بِرَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ»

«ḥaddathanī jibrīlu ʿalayhi al-salāmu: ʾinna ʾākhira man yadkhulu al-jannata rajulun yuqālu lahu: yā ʿabda Allāhi murra ʿalā al-ṣirāṭi, qāla: fayamurru fatazillu qadamuhu, wayastamsiku bi-l-ʾukhrā, fatazillu rukbatuhu, wayastamsiku bi-l-ʾukhrā, wa-l-nāru taʾkhudhu minhu, fatarmīhi bishararihā, wataldhaʿuhu bilahabihā, kullamā ʾaṣābahu shayʾun minhā, ḍaraba biyadihi ʿalayhi waqāla:...... ḥattā yanjuwa minhā biraḥmati Allāhi»

“Gabriel, peace be upon him, related to me that the last person to enter Paradise will be a man to whom it is said, ‘Servant of God, cross the Ṣirāṭ.’ He crosses, but one foot slips; he holds on with the other, then one knee slips and he holds on with the other. The Fire catches him, hurling sparks at him and searing him with its flames. Whenever any of it touches him, he strikes it away with his hand and says: … until he escapes it by God’s mercy.” [The ellipsis occurs in the Arabic source.]

God coming in canopies of cloud for the reckoning

بَابُ نُزُولِ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى فِي ظُلَلٍ مِنَ الْغَمَامِ لِلْحِسَابِ

bābu nuzūli Allāhi tabāraka wataʿālā fī ẓulalin mina al-ghamāmi li-l-ḥisābi

God coming in canopies of cloud for the reckoning

٥٢ - ثَنَا غَسَّانُ بْنُ بُرْزِينَ الطُّهَوِيُّ، نَا سَيَّارُ بْنُ سَلَامَةَ الرِّيَاحِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ الرِّيَاحِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ:

52 - thanā ghassānu ibnu burzīna al-ṭuhawiyyu, nā sayyāru ibnu salāmata al-riyāḥiyyu, ʿan ʾabī al-ʿāliyati al-riyāḥiyyi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi ibni ʿabbāsin, qāla:

Ghassān ibn Burzīn al-Ṭuhawī narrated to us; Sayyār ibn Salāma al-Riyāḥī narrated to us, from Abū al-ʿĀliya al-Riyāḥī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, who said:

«إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ اجْتَمَعَتِ الْجِنُّ وَالْإِنْسُ فِي صَعِيدٍ وَاحِدٍ، لَا يَذْكُرُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا، فَيَكُونُ الْجِنُّ وَالْإِنْسُ عَشَرَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ، فَيَكُونُ الْجِنُّ تِسْعَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ، وَيَكُونُ الْإِنْسُ جُزْءًا وَاحِدًا، ثُمَّ تَنْشَقُّ السَّمَاءُ الدُّنْيَا، فَتَنْزِلُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ صُفُوفًا، عَلَى كُلِّ صَفٍّ رَأْسٌ، فَيَدْعُو أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ مِنْهُمْ، فَيَقُولُونَ: فِيكُمْ رَبُّنَا عَزَّ وَجَلَّ؟ قَالُوا: لَيْسَ فِينَا وَهُوَ آتٍ، فَيَكُونُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا وَالْإِنْسُ عَشْرَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ، فَيَكُونُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا تِسْعَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ، وَيَكُونُ الْجِنُّ وَالْإِنْسُ جُزْءًا وَاحِدًا،

«ʾidhā kāna yawmu al-qiyāmati ajtamaʿati al-jinnu wa-l-ʾinsu fī ṣaʿīdin wāḥidin, lā yadhkuru baʿḍuhum baʿḍan, fayakūnu al-jinnu wa-l-ʾinsu ʿasharata ʾajzāʾin, fayakūnu al-jinnu tisʿata ʾajzāʾin, wayakūnu al-ʾinsu juzʾan wāḥidan, thumma tanshaqqu al-samāʾu al-dunyā, fatanzilu al-malāʾikatu ṣufūfan, ʿalā kulli ṣaffin raʾsun, fayadʿū ʾahlu al-ʾarḍi minhum, fayaqūlūna: fīkum rabbunā ʿazza wajalla? qālū: laysa fīnā wahuwa ʾātin, fayakūnu ʾahlu al-samāʾi al-dunyā wa-l-ʾinsu ʿashrata ʾajzāʾin, fayakūnu ʾahlu al-samāʾi al-dunyā tisʿata ʾajzāʾin, wayakūnu al-jinnu wa-l-ʾinsu juzʾan wāḥidan,

“On the Day of Resurrection the jinn and human beings will gather on one plain, each unaware of the others. Together they will comprise ten parts: nine parts jinn and one part human beings. Then the lowest heaven will split open, and angels will descend in ranks, each rank with a leader. The people of earth will call to them, ‘Is our Lord, mighty and majestic, among you?’ They will answer, ‘He is not among us, but He is coming.’ The inhabitants of the lowest heaven together with jinn and human beings will then comprise ten parts: nine parts inhabitants of that heaven and one part jinn and human beings.

ثُمَّ تَنْشَقُّ السَّمَاءُ الثَّانِيَةُ، فَتَنْزِلُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ صُفُوفًا، عَلَى كُلِّ صَفٍّ رَأْسٌ، فَيَقُولُ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ: أَفِيكُمْ رَبُّنَا تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: لَيْسَ فِينَا، وَهُوَ آتٍ، فَيَكُونُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ الثَّانِيَةِ وَأَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا وَالْجِنُّ وَالْإِنْسُ عَشَرَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ، فَيَكُونُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ الثَّانِيَةِ تِسْعَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ، وَيَكُونُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا وَالْجِنُّ وَالْإِنْسُ جُزْءًا وَاحِدًا،

thumma tanshaqqu al-samāʾu al-thāniyatu, fatanzilu al-malāʾikatu ṣufūfan, ʿalā kulli ṣaffin raʾsun, fayaqūlu ʾahlu al-ʾarḍi: ʾafīkum rabbunā tabāraka wataʿālā? fayaqūlūna: laysa fīnā, wahuwa ʾātin, fayakūnu ʾahlu al-samāʾi al-thāniyati waʾahlu al-samāʾi al-dunyā wa-l-jinnu wa-l-ʾinsu ʿasharata ʾajzāʾin, fayakūnu ʾahlu al-samāʾi al-thāniyati tisʿata ʾajzāʾin, wayakūnu ʾahlu al-samāʾi al-dunyā wa-l-jinnu wa-l-ʾinsu juzʾan wāḥidan,

Then the second heaven will split open, and angels will descend in ranks, each with a leader. The people of earth will ask, ‘Is our Lord, blessed and exalted is He, among you?’ They will answer, ‘He is not among us, but He is coming.’ The inhabitants of the second heaven together with those of the lowest heaven, the jinn, and human beings will comprise ten parts: nine parts inhabitants of the second heaven and one part all those below.

ثُمَّ تَنْشَقُّ السَّمَاءُ الثَّالِثَةَ، فَتَنْزِلُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ صُفُوفًا، عَلَى كُلِّ صَفٍّ رَأْسٌ، فَيَقُولُ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ: أَفِيكُمْ رَبُّنَا تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: لَيْسَ فِينَا، وَهُوَ آتٍ، فَيَكُونُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ الثَّالِثَةِ وَمَا أَسْفَلَ مِنْهَا مِنَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْجِنُّ وَالْإِنْسُ عَشَرَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ، فَيَكُونُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ الثَّالِثَةِ تِسْعَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ، وَيَكُونُ مَا أَسْفَلَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ مِنَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْجِنُّ وَالْإِنْسُ جُزْءًا وَاحِدًا،

thumma tanshaqqu al-samāʾu al-thālithata, fatanzilu al-malāʾikatu ṣufūfan, ʿalā kulli ṣaffin raʾsun, fayaqūlu ʾahlu al-ʾarḍi: ʾafīkum rabbunā tabāraka wataʿālā? fayaqūlūna: laysa fīnā, wahuwa ʾātin, fayakūnu ʾahlu al-samāʾi al-thālithati wamā ʾasfala minhā mina al-samawāti wa-l-jinnu wa-l-ʾinsu ʿasharata ʾajzāʾin, fayakūnu ʾahlu al-samāʾi al-thālithati tisʿata ʾajzāʾin, wayakūnu mā ʾasfala min dhalika mina al-samawāti wa-l-jinnu wa-l-ʾinsu juzʾan wāḥidan,

Then the third heaven will split open and angels will descend in ranks, each with a leader. The people of earth will ask, ‘Is our Lord, blessed and exalted is He, among you?’ They will answer, ‘He is not among us, but He is coming.’ The inhabitants of the third heaven together with all those in the lower heavens, the jinn, and human beings will comprise ten parts: nine parts inhabitants of the third heaven and one part all those below.

ثُمَّ يَكُونُ أَهْلُ السَّمَوَاتِ عَلَى هَذَا حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ لِلْسَابِعَةِ، حَتَّى يَجِيءَ رَبُّكَ فِي ظُلَلٍ مِنَ الْغَمَامِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ صُفُوفًا لَا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ»

thumma yakūnu ʾahlu al-samawāti ʿalā hadhā ḥattā yablugha li-l-sābiʿati, ḥattā yajīʾa rabbuka fī ẓulalin mina al-ghamāmi wa-l-malāʾikatu ṣufūfan lā yatakallamūna»

The inhabitants of the heavens will continue in this pattern up to the seventh, until your Lord comes amid canopies of cloud while the angels stand in ranks, speaking not a word.”

٥٣ - ثَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ، عَنْ حَمَّادٍ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ يُوسُفَ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ:

53 - thanā ʾabū ʿaliyyin, ʿan ḥammādin, ʿan ʿaliyyi ibni zaydin, ʿan yūsufa ibni mihrāna, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin, qāla:

Abū ʿAlī narrated to us, from Ḥammād, from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, from Yūsuf ibn Mihrān, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:

«يَأْتِي الرَّبُّ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى فِي الْكُرُوبِيِّينَ، وَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ مِنَ السَّمَوَاتِ السَّبْعِ وَالْأَرَضِينَ وَحَمَلَةِ الْعَرْشِ، مَا بَيْنَ أَخْمَصِ أَحَدِهِمْ إِلَى عَقِبِهِ مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ، وَمِنْ عَقِبِهِ إِلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ، وَمِنْ رُكْبَتَيْهِ إِلَى أَرْنَبَتِهِ مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ، وَمِنْ بَيْنِ أَرْنَبَتِهِ إِلَى تَرْقُوَتِهِ مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ، وَمِنْ تَرْقُوَتِهِ إِلَى مَوْضِعِ الْقُرْطِ مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ»

«yaʾtī al-rabbu tabāraka wataʿālā fī al-kurūbiyyīna, wahum ʾaktharu mina al-samawāti al-sabʿi wa-l-ʾaraḍīna waḥamalati al-ʿarshi, mā bayna ʾakhmaṣi ʾaḥadihim ʾilā ʿaqibihi masīratu khamsimiʾati ʿāmin, wamin ʿaqibihi ʾilā rukbatayhi masīratu khamsimiʾati ʿāmin, wamin rukbatayhi ʾilā ʾarnabatihi masīratu khamsimiʾati ʿāmin, wamin bayni ʾarnabatihi ʾilā tarquwatihi masīratu khamsimiʾati ʿāmin, wamin tarquwatihi ʾilā mawḍiʿi al-qurṭi masīratu khamsimiʾati ʿāmin»

“The Lord, blessed and exalted is He, comes among the cherubim. They outnumber the seven heavens, the earths, and the bearers of the Throne. From the arch of one angel’s foot to his heel is a journey of five hundred years; from heel to knees, five hundred years; from knees to the tip of his nose, five hundred years; from the tip of his nose to his collarbone, five hundred years; and from his collarbone to where an earring would hang, five hundred years.” [The Arabic’s anatomical sequence is retained.]

٥٤ - نَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، ثَنَا أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ، أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنِ الْوُرُودِ، فَقَالَ جَابِرٌ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:

54 - nā ibnu lahīʿata, thanā ʾabū al-zubayri, ʾannahu saʾala jābira ibna ʿabdi Allāhi ʿani al-wurūdi, faqāla jābirun: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; Abū al-Zubayr narrated to us that he asked Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh about coming to the Fire. Jābir said: I heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, say:

«نَحْنُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَى كَوْمٍ فَوْقَ النَّاسِ، فَتُدْعَى الْأُمَمُ بِأَوْثَانِهَا، وَمَا كَانَتْ تَعْبُدُ، الْأَوَّلَ فَالْأَوَّلَ، حَتَّى يَأْتِيَنَا رَبُّنَا بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ، فَيَقُولُ: مَا تَنْتَظِرُونَ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: نَنْتَظِرُ رَبَّنَا عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، فَيَقُولُ: أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ، فَيَقُولُونَ: حَتَّى نَنْظُرَ إِلَيْكَ، فَيَتَجَلَّى لَهُمْ يَضْحَكُ» قَالَ جَابِرٌ: فَسَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «ثُمَّ يَنْطَلِقُ وَيَتْبَعُونَهُ»

«naḥnu yawma al-qiyāmati ʿalā kawmin fawqa al-nāsi, fatudʿā al-ʾumamu biʾawthānihā, wamā kānat taʿbudu, al-ʾawwala fa-l-ʾawwala, ḥattā yaʾtiyanā rabbunā baʿda dhalika, fayaqūlu: mā tantaẓirūna? fayaqūlūna: nantaẓiru rabbanā ʿazza wajalla, fayaqūlu: ʾanā rabbukumu, fayaqūlūna: ḥattā nanẓura ʾilayka, fayatajallā lahum yaḍḥaku» qāla jābirun: fasamiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: «thumma yanṭaliqu wayatbaʿūnahu»

“On the Day of Resurrection we shall be on a mound above the people. Each community in turn will be called by its idols and by whatever it worshiped. Then our Lord will come to us and say, ‘What are you waiting for?’ They will say, ‘We await our Lord, mighty and majestic.’ He will say, ‘I am your Lord.’ They will say, ‘Only when we see You.’ He will disclose Himself to them, smiling.” Jābir said: I then heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, say: “Then He will proceed, and they will follow Him.”

٥٥ - ثَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

55 - thanā al-mubāraku ibnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«يُرْفَعُ لِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مَا كَانُوا يَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ. مَنْ كَانَ يَعْبُدُ شَمْسًا أَوْ قَمَرًا أَوْ وَثَنَا، فَيَتَّبِعُونَهُ حَتَّى يَتَهَافَتُونَ فِي النَّارِ، ثُمَّ يُؤْتَى عَلَى الْيَهُودِ، فَيُقَالُ لَهُمْ: مَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْبُدُونَ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: كُنَّا نَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ وَعُزَيْرًا إِلَّا قَلِيلًا مِنْهُمْ، فَيُقَالُ لَهُمُ: امْضُوا

«yurfaʿu likulli qawmin yawma al-qiyāmati mā kānū yaʿbudūna min dūni Allāhi. man kāna yaʿbudu shamsan ʾaw qamaran ʾaw wathanā, fayattabiʿūnahu ḥattā yatahāfatūna fī al-nāri, thumma yuʾtā ʿalā al-yahūdi, fayuqālu lahum: mā kuntum taʿbudūna? fayaqūlūna: kunnā naʿbudu Allāha waʿuzayran ʾillā qalīlan minhum, fayuqālu lahumu: amḍū

“On the Day of Resurrection, each people will be shown what they worshiped besides God. Whoever worshiped the sun, moon, or an idol will follow it until they fall into the Fire. Then the Jews will be brought and asked, ‘What did you worship?’ They will say, ‘We worshiped God and ʿUzayr,’ except for a few among them. They will be told, ‘Go on.’

ثُمَّ يُؤْتَى عَلَى النَّصَارَى، فَيُقَالُ لَهُمْ: مَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْبُدُونَ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: كُنَّا نَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ وَالْمَسِيحَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا مِنْهُمْ. فَيُقَالُ: لَهُمُ امْضُوا.

thumma yuʾtā ʿalā al-naṣārā, fayuqālu lahum: mā kuntum taʿbudūna? fayaqūlūna: kunnā naʿbudu Allāha wa-l-masīḥa ʾillā qalīlan minhum. fayuqālu: lahumu amḍū.

Then the Christians will be brought and asked, ‘What did you worship?’ They will say, ‘We worshiped God and the Messiah,’ except for a few among them. They too will be told, ‘Go on.’

قَالَ: ثُمَّ يَأْتِينَا رَبُّنَا عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَنَحْنُ عَلَى تَلٍّ رَفِيعٍ فَيَقُولُ: مَا تَنْتَظِرُونَ؟ فَنَقُولُ: رَبَّنَا. فَيُقَالُ لَهُمْ: هَلْ تَعْرِفُونَ رَبَّكُمْ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَلَمْ تَرَوْهُ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: نَعَمْ نَعْرِفُهُ، إِنَّهُ لَا عِدْلَ لَهُ. فَهُنَالِكَ يَتَجَلَّى لَنَا رَبُّنَا عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَهُوَ يَضْحَكُ. قَالَ: فَنَتْبَعُ رَبَّنَا، فَيَأْخُذُ بِنَا عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ»

qāla: thumma yaʾtīnā rabbunā ʿazza wajalla wanaḥnu ʿalā tallin rafīʿin fayaqūlu: mā tantaẓirūna? fanaqūlu: rabbanā. fayuqālu lahum: hal taʿrifūna rabbakum ʿazza wajalla walam tarawhu? fayaqūlūna: naʿam naʿrifuhu, ʾinnahu lā ʿidla lahu. fahunālika yatajallā lanā rabbunā ʿazza wajalla wahuwa yaḍḥaku. qāla: fanatbaʿu rabbanā, fayaʾkhudhu binā ʿalā al-ṣirāṭi»

Then our Lord, mighty and majestic, will come to us while we are on a high hill and ask, ‘What are you waiting for?’ We shall say, ‘Our Lord.’ They will be asked, ‘Do you recognize your Lord, mighty and majestic, although you have not seen Him?’ They will answer, ‘Yes, we recognize Him; none is His equal.’ Then our Lord, mighty and majestic, will disclose Himself to us, smiling. We shall follow our Lord, and He will lead us onto the Ṣirāṭ.”

٥٦ - ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَازِمٍ، عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَلْ نَرَى رَبَّنَا؟ قَالَ: «أَلَسْتُمْ تَرَوْنَ الْقَمَرَ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ فِي غَيْرِ تَضَارٍّ؟ وَاللَّهِ لَتَرَوْنَهُ كَمَا تَرَوْنَ الْقَمَرَ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ فِي غَيْرِ تَضَارٍّ». قَالَ: «ثُمَّ يُنَادِي مُنَادٍ:

56 - thanā muḥammadu ibnu khāzimin, ʿan suhayli ibni ʾabī ṣāliḥin, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, qāla: qālū: yā rasūla Allāhi hal narā rabbanā? qāla: «ʾalastum tarawna al-qamara laylata al-badri fī ghayri taḍārrin? wa-llāhi latarawnahu kamā tarawna al-qamara laylata al-badri fī ghayri taḍārrin». qāla: «thumma yunādī munādin:

Muḥammad ibn Khāzim narrated to us, from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, from his father, from Abū Hurayra, who said: They asked, “Messenger of God, shall we see our Lord?” He replied: “Do you not see the moon on the night when it is full without difficulty? By God, you will see Him as you see the full moon, without difficulty.” He continued: “Then a caller will announce,

أَلَا لِيَتْبَعْ كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ مَا كَانَتْ تَعْبُدُ فِي الدُّنْيَا. قَالَ: فَمَثُلَ لِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ مَا كَانُوا يَعْبُدُونَ فِي الدُّنْيَا، فَيَنْطَلِقُ بِهِمْ حَتَّى يُدْخِلَهُمُ النَّارَ فَمَنْ جَازَ الصِّرَاطَ وَأَنْفَقَ مِنْ مَالِهِ زَوْجًا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ ابْتَدَرَتْهُ حَجَبَةُ الْجَنَّةِ: يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ يَا مُسْلِمُ هَذَا خَيْرٌ فَتَعَالَ». قَالَ: فَضَرَبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَخِذَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَ فَقَالَ: «أَمَا إِنَّكَ مِنْهُمْ»

ʾalā liyatbaʿ kullu ʾummatin mā kānat taʿbudu fī al-dunyā. qāla: famathula likulli qawmin mā kānū yaʿbudūna fī al-dunyā, fayanṭaliqu bihim ḥattā yudkhilahumu al-nāra faman jāza al-ṣirāṭa waʾanfaqa min mālihi zawjan fī sabīli Allāhi abtadarathu ḥajabatu al-jannati: yā ʿabda Allāhi yā muslimu hadhā khayrun fataʿāla». qāla: faḍaraba rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fakhidha ʾabī bakrin raḍiya Allāhu ʿanha faqāla: «ʾamā ʾinnaka minhum»

‘Let each community follow what it worshiped in the world.’ Whatever each people worshiped will appear to them and lead them until it brings them into the Fire. Whoever crosses the Ṣirāṭ and has given a pair of his possessions in God’s path will be greeted eagerly by the gatekeepers of Paradise: ‘Servant of God, Muslim, here is something good—come!’” The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, struck the thigh of Abū Bakr, may God be pleased with him, and said: “You are among them.”

٥٧ - ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ وَكِيعِ بْنِ حُدُسٍ، عَنْ عَمِّهِ أَبِي رَزِينٍ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَكُلُّنَا يَرَى رَبَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ؟ وَمَا آيَةُ ذَلِكَ فِي خَلْقِهِ؟ قَالَ: «أَلَيْسَ كُلُّكُمْ يَرَى الْقَمَرَ مُتَخَلِّيًا بِهِ؟» قُلْتُ: بَلَى. قَالَ: «فَإِنَّهُ أَعْظَمُ»

57 - thanā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan yaʿlā ibni ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan wakīʿi ibni ḥudusin, ʿan ʿammihi ʾabī razīnin, qāla: qultu: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾakullunā yarā rabbahu ʿazza wajalla yawma al-qiyāmati? wamā ʾāyatu dhalika fī khalqihi? qāla: «ʾalaysa kullukum yarā al-qamara mutakhalliyan bihi?» qultu: balā. qāla: «faʾinnahu ʾaʿẓamu»

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from Wakīʿ ibn Ḥudus, from his uncle Abū Razīn, who said: I asked, “Messenger of God, will each of us see his Lord, mighty and majestic, on the Day of Resurrection? What sign of this is there in His creation?” He said: “Does each of you not see the moon when you are alone with it?” I said, “Yes.” He said: “He is greater.”

٥٨ - ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، وَعَبْدَةُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

58 - thanā sufyānu ibnu ʿuyaynata, waʿabdatu ibnu sulaymāna, ʿan ʾismāʿīla ibni ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi ibni ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿan jarīri ibni ʿabdi Allāhi, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna and ʿAbda ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«إِنَّكُمْ سَتَرَوْنَ رَبَّكُمْ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَا تُضَامُونَ فِي رُؤْيَتِهِ كَمَا تَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى الْقَمَرِ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ»

«ʾinnakum satarawna rabbakum ʿazza wajalla lā tuḍāmūna fī ruʾyatihi kamā tanẓurūna ʾilā al-qamari laylata al-badri»

“You will see your Lord, mighty and majestic, without crowding one another to see Him, just as you look at the full moon.”

٥٩ - ثَنَا بَعْضُ، أَصْحَابِ ابْنِ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي قُبَيْلٍ، عَنْ كَعْبِ الْأَحْبَارِ، قَالَ: أَرْبَعَةُ أَجْبُلٍ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ: الْخَلِيلُ وَلِبْنَانُ، وَالطُّورُ، وَالْجُودِيُّ، يَكُونُ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ لُؤْلُؤَةً بَيْضَاءَ، تُضِيءُ مَا بَيْنَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ، يَرْجِعْنَ إِلَى بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ حَتَّى يُجْعَلْنَ فِي زَوَايَاهُ، ثُمَّ يَضَعُ الْجَبَّارُ عَلَيْهِنَّ عَرْشَهُ حَتَّى يَقْضِيَ اللَّهُ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَأَهْلِ النَّارِ، وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ حَوْلَ الْعَرْشِ {يُسَبِّحُونَ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّهِمْ وَقُضِيَ بَيْنَهُمْ بِالْحَقِّ وَقِيلَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ} [الزُّمَر: ٧٥]

59 - thanā baʿḍu, ʾaṣḥābi ibni lahīʿata, ʿani ibni lahīʿata, ʿan ʾabī qubaylin, ʿan kaʿbi al-ʾaḥbāri, qāla: ʾarbaʿatu ʾajbulin yawma al-qiyāmati: al-khalīlu walibnānu, wa-l-ṭūru, wa-l-jūdiyyu, yakūnu kullu wāḥidin minhum luʾluʾatan bayḍāʾa, tuḍīʾu mā bayna al-samawāti wa-l-ʾarḍi, yarjiʿna ʾilā bayti al-maqdisi ḥattā yujʿalna fī zawāyāhu, thumma yaḍaʿu al-jabbāru ʿalayhinna ʿarshahu ḥattā yaqḍiya Allāhu bayna ʾahli al-jannati waʾahli al-nāri, wa-l-malāʾikatu ḥawla al-ʿarshi {yusabbiḥūna biḥamdi rabbihim waquḍiya baynahum bi-l-ḥaqqi waqīla al-ḥamdu li-llāhi rabbi al-ʿālamīna} [al-zumar: 75]

Some of the companions of Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us, from Ibn Lahīʿa, from Abū Qubayl, from Kaʿb al-Aḥbār, who said: “Four mountains on the Day of Resurrection—al-Khalīl, Lebanon, al-Ṭūr, and al-Jūdī—will each become a white pearl, lighting the space between heaven and earth. They will return to Jerusalem and be placed in its corners. Then the All-Compelling will place His Throne upon them until God judges between the people of Paradise and the people of the Fire, while the angels around the Throne ‘glorify their Lord with praise; judgment will be passed among them in truth, and it will be said: Praise belongs to God, Lord of the worlds’” (Qurʾān 39:75).

٦٠ - ثَنَا فُضَيْلُ بْنُ مَرْزُوقٍ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ، قَالَ:

60 - thanā fuḍaylu ibnu marzūqin, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi ibni ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan ʿuqbata ibni ʿāmirin al-juhaniyyi, qāla:

Fuḍayl ibn Marzūq narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī, who said:

«يُجْمَعُ الْأَوَّلُونَ وَالْآخِرُونَ فِي صَعِيدٍ وَاحِدٍ، ثُمَّ يَتَجَلَّى لَهُمْ ذُو الْعِزَّةِ»

«yujmaʿu al-ʾawwalūna wa-l-ʾākhirūna fī ṣaʿīdin wāḥidin, thumma yatajallā lahum dhū al-ʿizzati»

“All the earlier and later generations will be gathered on one plain. Then the Possessor of Might will disclose Himself to them.”

The Prophet's intercession for the people at the standing

بَابُ شَفَاعَةِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لِأَهْلِ الْمَوْقِفِ

bābu shafāʿati al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama liʾahli al-mawqifi

The Prophet's intercession for the people at the standing

٦١ - ثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ صِلَةَ، عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ، قَالَ:

61 - thanā ʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ṣilata, ʿan ḥudhayfata, qāla:

Isrāʾīl narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Ṣila, from Ḥudhayfa, who said:

«يُنَادَى مُحَمَّدٌ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَيَقُولُ: لَبَّيْكَ وَسَعْدَيْكَ، وَالْخَيْرُ فِي يَدَيْكَ، وَالشَّرُّ لَيْسَ إِلَيْكَ، وَالْمَهْدِيُّ مِنْ هَدَيْتَ، وَعَبْدُكَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ، وَبِكَ وَإِلَيْكَ، لَا مَلْجَأَ وَلَا مَنْجَا مِنْكَ إِلَّا إِلَيْكَ، تَبَارَكْتَ وَتَعَالَيْتَ، سُبْحَانَكَ رَبَّ الْبَيْتِ. فَذَلِكَ الْمَقَامُ الْمَحْمُودُ»

«yunādā muḥammadun ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fayaqūlu: labbayka wasaʿdayka, wa-l-khayru fī yadayka, wa-l-sharru laysa ʾilayka, wa-l-mahdiyyu min hadayta, waʿabduka bayna yadayka, wabika waʾilayka, lā maljaʾa walā manjā minka ʾillā ʾilayka, tabārakta wataʿālayta, subḥānaka rabba al-bayti. fadhalika al-maqāmu al-maḥmūdu»

“Muḥammad, God bless him and grant him peace, will be called, and he will say: ‘At Your service, and gladly! All good is in Your hands; evil is not attributed to You. Whoever is guided is one You have guided. Your servant stands before You, through You and toward You. There is no refuge or escape from You except with You. Blessed and exalted are You. Glory be to You, Lord of the House.’ This is the Praiseworthy Station.”

٦٢ - ثَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

62 - thanā al-mubāraku ibnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«يَقُولُونَ مَنْ تَعْلَمُونَ يَشْفَعُ لَنَا إِلَى رَبِّنَا، فَيُنَجِّيَنَا مِنْ شِدَّةِ هَذَا الْيَوْمِ وَكَرْبِهِ وَغَمِّهِ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: مَا نَعْلَمُ خَلِيقَةً أَكْرَمَ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ آدَمَ، خَلْقَهُ بِيَدِهِ، وَنَفَخَ فِيهِ مِنْ رُوحِهِ، وَأَمَرَ الْمَلَائِكَةَ فَسَجَدُوا لَهُ. فَيَأْتُونَ آدَمَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ، فَيَقُولُونَ: يَا آدَمُ اشْفَعْ لَنَا إِلَى رَبِّكَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُنَجِّينَا مِنْ شِدَّةِ هَذَا الْيَوْمِ وَكَرْبِهِ وَغَمِّهِ، فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكَ وَيَذْكُرُ خَطِيئَتَهُ، وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا نُوحًا عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ، وَهُوَ أَوَّلُ النَّبِيِّينَ،

«yaqūlūna man taʿlamūna yashfaʿu lanā ʾilā rabbinā, fayunajjiyanā min shiddati hadhā al-yawmi wakarbihi waghammihi? fayaqūlūna: mā naʿlamu khalīqatan ʾakrama ʿalā Allāhi min ʾādama, khalqahu biyadihi, wanafakha fīhi min rūḥihi, waʾamara al-malāʾikata fasajadū lahu. fayaʾtūna ʾādama ʿalayhi al-salāmu, fayaqūlūna: yā ʾādamu ashfaʿ lanā ʾilā rabbika ʿazza wajalla yunajjīnā min shiddati hadhā al-yawmi wakarbihi waghammihi, fayaqūlu: lastu hunāka wayadhkuru khaṭīʾatahu, walakini aʾtū nūḥan ʿalayhi al-salāmu, wahuwa ʾawwalu al-nabiyyīna,

“They will ask, ‘Who do you know who will intercede with our Lord for us and deliver us from the hardship, anguish, and grief of this day?’ They will say, ‘We know no creature more honored by God than Adam. He created him with His hand, breathed into him of His spirit, and commanded the angels to bow to him.’ They will go to Adam, peace be upon him, and say, ‘Adam, intercede with your Lord, mighty and majestic, for us, so that He may deliver us from this day’s hardship, anguish, and grief.’ He will say, ‘I am not the one for this,’ and mention his sin. ‘Go instead to Noah, peace be upon him, the first of the prophets.’

فَيَأْتُونَ نُوحًا عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكَ، وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا إِبْرَاهِيمَ الَّذِي اتَّخَذَهُ اللَّهُ خَلِيلًا، فَيَأْتُونَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ، فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكَ، وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا مُوسَى الَّذِي كَلَّمَهُ اللَّهُ تَكْلِيمًا، فَيَأْتُونَ مُوسَى، فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكَ، وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا عِيسَى، فَيَأْتُونَ عِيسَى، فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكَ، فَيَرْجِعُونَ إِلَى آدَمَ فَيَقُولُونَ: يَا أَبَانَا مَا وَجَدْنَا أَحَدًا يَشْفَعُ لَنَا إِلَى رَبِّنَا عَزَّ وَجَلَّ. فَيَقُولُ: يَا بَنِيَّ أَرَأَيْتُمْ لَوْ أَنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ أَخَذَ وِعَاءً فَجَعَلَ فِيهِ بِضَاعَتَهُ، ثُمَّ خَتَمَ عَلَيْهَا حَتَّى كَانَ لَا يَخْلُصُ إِلَى مَا فِي الْوِعَاءِ أَحَدٌ حَتَّى يَفُضَّ الْخَاتَمَ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: لَا. فَيَقُولُ: إِنَّ مُحَمَّدًا خَاتَمُ النَّبِيِّينَ، فَأْتُوهُ يَشْفَعْ لَكُمْ إِلَى رَبِّكُمْ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»

fayaʾtūna nūḥan ʿalayhi al-salāmu fayaqūlu: lastu hunāka, walakini aʾtū ʾibrāhīma al-adhī attakhadhahu Allāhu khalīlan, fayaʾtūna ʾibrāhīma ʿalayhi al-salāmu, fayaqūlu: lastu hunāka, walakini aʾtū mūsā al-adhī kallamahu Allāhu taklīman, fayaʾtūna mūsā, fayaqūlu: lastu hunāka, walakini aʾtū ʿīsā, fayaʾtūna ʿīsā, fayaqūlu: lastu hunāka, fayarjiʿūna ʾilā ʾādama fayaqūlūna: yā ʾabānā mā wajadnā ʾaḥadan yashfaʿu lanā ʾilā rabbinā ʿazza wajalla. fayaqūlu: yā baniyya ʾaraʾaytum law ʾanna ʾaḥadakum ʾakhadha wiʿāʾan fajaʿala fīhi biḍāʿatahu, thumma khatama ʿalayhā ḥattā kāna lā yakhluṣu ʾilā mā fī al-wiʿāʾi ʾaḥadun ḥattā yafuḍḍa al-khātama? fayaqūlūna: lā. fayaqūlu: ʾinna muḥammadan khātamu al-nabiyyīna, faʾtūhu yashfaʿ lakum ʾilā rabbikum ʿazza wajalla»

They will go to Noah, who will say, ‘I am not the one for this. Go to Abraham, whom God took as a close friend.’ They will go to Abraham, peace be upon him, who will say, ‘I am not the one for this. Go to Moses, to whom God spoke directly.’ They will go to Moses, who will say, ‘I am not the one for this. Go to Jesus.’ They will go to Jesus, who will say, ‘I am not the one for this.’ They will return to Adam and say, ‘Our father, we have found no one to intercede with our Lord, mighty and majestic, for us.’ He will say, ‘My children, suppose one of you put his goods in a vessel and sealed it so that no one could reach what was inside until the seal was broken?’ They will say, ‘No one could.’ He will say, ‘Muḥammad is the Seal of the Prophets; go to him and he will intercede with your Lord, mighty and majestic, for you.’”

. قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَيَأْتِينِي النَّاسُ فَيَقُولُونَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ هَذَا الْمَقَامُ الْمَحْمُودُ، اشْفَعْ لَنَا إِلَى رَبِّكَ يُنَجِّينَا مِنْ طُولِ هَذَا الْيَوْمِ وَغَمِّهِ وَكَرْبِهِ، قَالَ: فَيَقُولُ: أَنَا لَهَا. قَالَ: فَأَنْطَلِقُ حَتَّى آتِيَ بَابَ الْجَنَّةِ، فَآخُذُ بِحِلَقِ الْبَابِ فَأَسْتَفْتِحَ».

. qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «fayaʾtīnī al-nāsu fayaqūlūna: yā muḥammadu hadhā al-maqāmu al-maḥmūdu, ashfaʿ lanā ʾilā rabbika yunajjīnā min ṭūli hadhā al-yawmi waghammihi wakarbihi, qāla: fayaqūlu: ʾanā lahā. qāla: faʾanṭaliqu ḥattā ʾātiya bāba al-jannati, faʾākhudhu biḥilaqi al-bābi faʾastaftiḥa».

The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said: “The people will come to me and say, ‘Muḥammad, this is the Praiseworthy Station. Intercede with your Lord for us, that He may relieve us of the length, grief, and anguish of this day.’ I will say, ‘I am the one for it.’ I will go to the gate of Paradise, take hold of its ring, and ask for it to be opened.”

قَالَ الْحَسَنُ: وَقَدْ غُفِرَ لَهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِهِ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ فَمَا يُوَافِي بِذَنْبٍ. فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي: افْتَحُوا لِعَبْدِي أَحْمَدَ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَيُفْتَحُ لِي الْبَابُ، فَأَدْخَلُ الْجَنَّةَ فَأَجِدُ رَبِّي جَالِسًا عَلَى كُرْسِيِّهِ فِي جَنَّتِهِ، فَأَخِرُّ لِرَبِّي سَاجِدًا. قَالَ: فَيُعَلِّمُنِي رَبِّي مَحَامِدَ لَمْ يَحْمَدْهُ بِهَا أَحَدٌ قَبْلِي فَيَقُولُ لِي: يَا مُحَمَّدُ ارْفَعْ رَأْسَكَ، وَقُلْ تُسْمَعْ، وَسَلْ تُعْطَهْ، وَاشْفَعْ تُشَفَّعْ، فَأَرْفَعُ رَأْسِي فَأَقُولُ: أَيْ رَبِّ أُمَّتِي. فَيَحُدُّ لِي رَبِّي حَدًّا، ثُمَّ أَخِرُّ سَاجِدًا،

qāla al-ḥasanu: waqad ghufira lahu mā taqaddama min dhanbihi wamā taʾakhkhara famā yuwāfī bidhanbin. fayaqūlu rabbī: aftaḥū liʿabdī ʾaḥmada ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, fayuftaḥu lī al-bābu, faʾadkhalu al-jannata faʾajidu rabbī jālisan ʿalā kursiyyihi fī jannatihi, faʾakhirru lirabbī sājidan. qāla: fayuʿallimunī rabbī maḥāmida lam yaḥmadhu bihā ʾaḥadun qablī fayaqūlu lī: yā muḥammadu arfaʿ raʾsaka, waqul tusmaʿ, wasal tuʿṭah, wāshfaʿ tushaffaʿ, faʾarfaʿu raʾsī faʾaqūlu: ʾay rabbi ʾummatī. fayaḥuddu lī rabbī ḥaddan, thumma ʾakhirru sājidan,

Al-Ḥasan said: He has been forgiven his former and later sins, so he comes bearing no sin. “My Lord will say, ‘Open for My servant Aḥmad, God bless him and grant him peace.’ The gate will be opened, and I will enter Paradise and find my Lord seated on His chair in His Garden. I will fall prostrate before my Lord. My Lord will teach me praises with which no one before me has praised Him, then say, ‘Muḥammad, raise your head; speak and you will be heard, ask and you will be given, intercede and your intercession will be accepted.’ I will raise my head and say, ‘My Lord, my community.’ My Lord will set a limit for me; then I will fall prostrate again.

فَيَقُولُ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ ارْفَعْ رَأْسَكَ، وَقُلْ تُسْمَعْ، وَسَلْ تُعْطَهْ، وَاشْفَعْ تُشَفَّعْ، فَأَرْفَعُ رَأْسِي، فَأَقُولُ: أَيْ رَبِّ أُمَّتِي أُمَّتِي، قَالَ: فَيَحُدُّ لِي حَدًّا، ثُمَّ يُؤْذَنُ لِي فِي الشَّفَاعَةِ "

fayaqūlu: yā muḥammadu arfaʿ raʾsaka, waqul tusmaʿ, wasal tuʿṭah, wāshfaʿ tushaffaʿ, faʾarfaʿu raʾsī, faʾaqūlu: ʾay rabbi ʾummatī ʾummatī, qāla: fayaḥuddu lī ḥaddan, thumma yuʾdhanu lī fī al-shafāʿati "

He will say, ‘Muḥammad, raise your head; speak and you will be heard, ask and you will be given, intercede and your intercession will be accepted.’ I will raise my head and say, ‘My Lord, my community, my community.’ He will set a limit for me, and then I will be permitted to intercede.”

٦٣ - ثَنَا أَبُو الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ آدَمَ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ، يَقُولُ:

63 - thanā ʾabū al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʾādama ibni ʿaliyyin, qāla: samiʿtu ibna ʿumara, yaqūlu:

Abū al-Aḥwaṣ narrated to us, from Ādam ibn ʿAlī, who said: I heard Ibn ʿUmar say:

«إِنَّ النَّاسَ يَصِيرُونَ جُثًى يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ تَتْبَعُ نَبِيَّهَا، يَقُولُونَ: يَا فُلَانُ اشْفَعْ لَنَا، يَا فُلَانُ اشْفَعْ لَنَا، حَتَّى تَنْتَهِيَ الشَّفَاعَةُ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَذَلِكَ الْمَقَامُ الْمَحْمُودُ»

«ʾinna al-nāsa yaṣīrūna juthanā yawma al-qiyāmati, kullu ʾummatin tatbaʿu nabiyyahā, yaqūlūna: yā fulānu ashfaʿ lanā, yā fulānu ashfaʿ lanā, ḥattā tantahiya al-shafāʿatu ʾilā muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, fadhalika al-maqāmu al-maḥmūdu»

“On the Day of Resurrection, people will be huddled in groups, each community following its prophet and calling, ‘So-and-so, intercede for us!’ until intercession reaches Muḥammad, God bless him and grant him peace. That is the Praiseworthy Station.”

٦٤ - ثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

64 - thanā ʾabū ʿawānata, ʿan qatādata, ʿan ʾanasin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Abū ʿAwāna narrated to us, from Qatāda, from Anas, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«يُجْمَعُ النَّاسُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيُهَمُّونَ لِذَلِكَ، وَيَقُولُونَ: لَوِ اسْتَغَثْنَا حَتَّى يُرِيحَنَا مِنْ مَكَانِنَا هَذَا، فَيَأْتُونَ آدَمَ فَيَقُولُونَ: يَا آدَمُ أَنْتَ الَّذِي خَلَقَكَ اللَّهُ بِيَدِهِ، وَنَفَخَ فِيكَ مِنْ رُوحِهِ، وَأَمَرَ الْمَلَائِكَةَ فَسَجَدُوا لَكَ، اشْفَعْ لَنَا عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، حَتَّى يُرِيحَنَا مِنْ مَكَانِنَا هَذَا، فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكَ، وَيَذْكُرُ خَطِيئَتَهُ، فَيَسْتَحْيِي رَبَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنْهَا، وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا نُوحًا، أَوَّلَ رَسُولٍ بَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ،

«yujmaʿu al-nāsu yawma al-qiyāmati, fayuhammūna lidhalika, wayaqūlūna: lawi astaghathnā ḥattā yurīḥanā min makāninā hadhā, fayaʾtūna ʾādama fayaqūlūna: yā ʾādamu ʾanta al-adhī khalaqaka Allāhu biyadihi, wanafakha fīka min rūḥihi, waʾamara al-malāʾikata fasajadū laka, ashfaʿ lanā ʿinda rabbika ʿazza wajalla, ḥattā yurīḥanā min makāninā hadhā, fayaqūlu: lastu hunāka, wayadhkuru khaṭīʾatahu, fayastaḥyī rabbahu ʿazza wajalla minhā, walakini aʾtū nūḥan, ʾawwala rasūlin baʿathahu Allāhu,

“People will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection and become deeply troubled. They will say, ‘If only we could seek help to be released from this place!’ They will go to Adam and say, ‘Adam, God created you with His hand, breathed into you of His spirit, and ordered the angels to bow to you. Intercede for us with your Lord, mighty and majestic, so that He may release us from this place.’ He will say, ‘I am not the one for this.’ He will recall his sin and feel ashamed before his Lord, mighty and majestic. ‘Go instead to Noah, the first messenger God sent.’

فَيَأْتُونَ نُوحًا فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكَ، وَيَذْكُرُ خَطِيئَتَهُ، فَيَسْتَحْيِي رَبَّهُ مِنْهَا، وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا إِبْرَاهِيمَ الَّذِي اتَّخَذَهُ اللَّهُ خَلِيلًا،

fayaʾtūna nūḥan fayaqūlu: lastu hunāka, wayadhkuru khaṭīʾatahu, fayastaḥyī rabbahu minhā, walakini aʾtū ʾibrāhīma al-adhī attakhadhahu Allāhu khalīlan,

They will go to Noah, who will say, ‘I am not the one for this.’ He will recall his sin and feel ashamed before his Lord. ‘Go instead to Abraham, whom God took as a close friend.’

ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ مُوسَى، وَعِيسَى، فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكُمْ، وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا مُحَمَّدًا صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، عَبْدًا غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِهِ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ. قَالَ: فَيَأْتُونِي، فَأَسْتَأْذِنُ عَلَى رَبِّي، فَيُؤْذَنُ لِي، فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُهُ وَقَعْتُ سَاجِدًا»

thumma dhakara mūsā, waʿīsā, fayaqūlu: lastu hunākum, walakini aʾtū muḥammadan ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, ʿabdan ghafara Allāhu lahu mā taqaddama min dhanbihi wamā taʾakhkhara. qāla: fayaʾtūnī, faʾastaʾdhinu ʿalā rabbī, fayuʾdhanu lī, faʾidhā raʾaytuhu waqaʿtu sājidan»

” He then mentioned Moses and Jesus. “He will say, ‘I am not the one for you. Go to Muḥammad, God bless him and grant him peace, a servant whose former and later sins God has forgiven.’ They will come to me. I will ask permission to approach my Lord and be granted it. When I see Him, I will fall prostrate.”

٦٥ - ثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، قَالَ: ثَنَا دَرَّاجٌ، عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

65 - thanā ibnu lahīʿata, qāla: thanā darrājun, ʿan ʾabī al-haythami, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us. He said: Darrāj narrated to us, from Abū al-Haytham, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«لَوْ أَنَّ السَّمَوَاتِ السَّبْعَ، وَالْأَرَضِينَ السَّبْعَ فِي كِفَّةٍ، وَلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ فِي كِفَّةٍ، مَالَتْ بِهِنَّ لَا إِلَهُ إِلَّا اللَّهُ»

«law ʾanna al-samawāti al-sabʿa, wa-l-ʾaraḍīna al-sabʿa fī kiffatin, walā ʾilaha ʾillā Allāhu fī kiffatin, mālat bihinna lā ʾilahu ʾillā Allāhu»

“If the seven heavens and seven earths were placed in one scale pan and ‘There is no god but God’ in the other, ‘There is no god but God’ would outweigh them.”

The scales on the Day of Resurrection

بَابُ ذِكْرِ الْمَوَازِينِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

bābu dhikri al-mawāzīni yawma al-qiyāmati

The scales on the Day of Resurrection

٦٦ - نَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ، عَنْ سَلْمَانَ الْفَارِسِيِّ، قَالَ:

66 - nā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan thābitin al-bunāniyyu, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna al-nahdiyyi, ʿan salmāna al-fārisiyyi, qāla:

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, from Salmān al-Fārisī, who said:

«يُؤْتَى بِالْمِيزَانِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَلَوْ وُضِعَتْ فِي كِفَّتِهِ السَّمَوَاتُ وَالْأَرْضُ وَمَنْ فِيهِنَّ، لَوَسِعَتْهُ. فَتَقُولُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ: رَبَّنَا مَنْ تَزِنُ بِهَذَا؟ فَيَقُولُ: مَا شِئْتُ مِنْ خَلْقِي. فَتَقُولُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ: رَبَّنَا مَا عَبَدْنَاكَ حَقَّ عِبَادَتِكَ»

«yuʾtā bi-l-mīzāni yawma al-qiyāmati, falaw wuḍiʿat fī kiffatihi al-samawātu wa-l-ʾarḍu waman fīhinna, lawasiʿathu. fataqūlu al-malāʾikatu: rabbanā man tazinu bihadhā? fayaqūlu: mā shiʾtu min khalqī. fataqūlu al-malāʾikatu: rabbanā mā ʿabadnāka ḥaqqa ʿibādatika»

“The Balance will be brought on the Day of Resurrection. If the heavens, the earth, and all they contain were placed in one of its pans, it would hold them. The angels will ask, ‘Our Lord, whom will You weigh with this?’ He will say, ‘Whomever I wish of My creatures.’ The angels will say, ‘Our Lord, we have not worshiped You as You deserve.’”

٦٧ - نَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، قَالَ: أَنَا أَبُو الْفَيْضِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الشَّعْبِيَّ، يَقُولُ: قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمَا نَتَعَارَفُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَإِنِّي أَسْمَعُ اللَّهَ يَقُولُ: {فَلَا أَنْسَابَ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَلَا يَتَسَاءَلُونَ} [الْمُؤْمِنُون: ١٠١]. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «ثَلَاثُ مَوَاطِنَ تَذْهَلُ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مِنْهُنَّ: حِينَ يُرْمَى إِلَى كُلِّ إِنْسَانٍ بِكِتَابِهِ، حَتَّى يَنْظُرَ بِيَمِينِهِ يَأْخُذُ كِتَابَهُ أَمْ بِشِمَالِهِ، وَعِنْدَ الْمَوَازِينِ، حَتَّى يَنْظُرَ أَيَرْجَحُ أَمْ يَخِفُّ، وَجِسْرُ جَهَنَّمَ يَمُرُّ بِهِ الرَّجُلُ أَسْرَعَ مِنَ الْبَرْقِ، وَمِنَ الرِّيحِ، وَمِنَ الطَّيْرِ»

67 - nā marwānu ibnu muʿāwiyata, qāla: ʾanā ʾabū al-fayḍi, qāla: samiʿtu al-shaʿbiyya, yaqūlu: qālat ʿāʾishatu: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾamā nataʿārafu yawma al-qiyāmati, faʾinnī ʾasmaʿu Allāha yaqūlu: {falā ʾansāba baynahum yawmaʾidhin walā yatasāʾalūna} [al-muʾminūn: 101]. faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «thalāthu mawāṭina tadhhalu kullu nafsin minhunna: ḥīna yurmā ʾilā kulli ʾinsānin bikitābihi, ḥattā yanẓura biyamīnihi yaʾkhudhu kitābahu ʾam bishimālihi, waʿinda al-mawāzīni, ḥattā yanẓura ʾayarjaḥu ʾam yakhiffu, wajisru jahannama yamurru bihi al-rajulu ʾasraʿa mina al-barqi, wamina al-rīḥi, wamina al-ṭayri»

Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya narrated to us. He said: Abū al-Fayḍ informed us. He said: I heard al-Shaʿbī say: ʿĀʾisha asked, “Messenger of God, shall we not recognize one another on the Day of Resurrection? I hear God say, ‘On that day there will be no family ties among them, nor will they ask about one another’” (Qurʾān 23:101). The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said: “There are three moments at which each soul is overwhelmed: when each person’s record is thrown to him and he waits to see whether he will take it in his right or left hand; at the scales, until he sees whether his weight rises or falls; and at the bridge over Hell, which a man may cross faster than lightning, wind, or a bird.”

٦٨ - ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، سَمِعَ عُبَيْدَ بْنَ عُمَيْرٍ، قَالَ:

68 - thanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿamri ibni dīnārin, samiʿa ʿubayda ibna ʿumayrin, qāla:

Sufyān narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, who heard ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr say:

«يُؤْتَى بِالرَّجُلِ الطَّوِيلِ الْعَظِيمِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيُوضَعُ فِي الْمِيزَانِ، فَمَا يَزِنُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ جَنَاحَ بَعُوضَةٍ»، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ {أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِ رَبِّهِمْ وَلِقَائِهِ فَحَبِطَتْ أَعْمَالُهُمْ فَلَا نُقِيمُ لَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَزْنًا} [الْكَهْف: ١٠٥]

«yuʾtā bi-l-rajuli al-ṭawīli al-ʿaẓīmi yawma al-qiyāmati, fayūḍaʿu fī al-mīzāni, famā yazinu ʿinda Allāhi ʿazza wajalla janāḥa baʿūḍatin», thumma qaraʾa {ʾūlaʾika al-adhīna kafarū biʾāyāti rabbihim waliqāʾihi faḥabiṭat ʾaʿmāluhum falā nuqīmu lahum yawma al-qiyāmati waznan} [al-kahf: 105]

“A tall, imposing man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and placed in the Balance, yet before God, mighty and majestic, he will not weigh as much as a mosquito’s wing.” Then he recited: “Those who disbelieved in the signs of their Lord and in meeting Him—their deeds have come to nothing, and on the Day of Resurrection We shall assign them no weight” (Qurʾān 18:105).

٦٩ - نَا وَكِيعٌ، وَيَحْيَى بْنُ عِيسَى، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ شِمْرِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ، قَالَ:

69 - nā wakīʿun, wayaḥyā ibnu ʿīsā, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan shimri ibni ʿaṭiyyata, ʿan ʾabī yaḥyā, ʿan kaʿbi ibni ʿujrata, qāla:

Wakīʿ and Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Shimr ibn ʿAṭiyya, from Abū Yaḥyā, from Kaʿb ibn ʿUjra, who said:

«يُجَاءُ بِالرَّجُلِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فَيُوزَنُ بِالْحَبَّةِ فَلَا يَزِنُهَا، وَيُوزَنُ بِجَنَاحِ بَعُوضَةٍ فَلَا يَزِنُهَا»، وَقَرَأَ: {فَلَا نُقِيمُ لَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَزْنًا} [الْكَهْف: ١٠٥] "

«yujāʾu bi-l-rajuli yawma al-qiyāmati fayūzanu bi-l-ḥabbati falā yazinuhā, wayūzanu bijanāḥi baʿūḍatin falā yazinuhā», waqaraʾa: {falā nuqīmu lahum yawma al-qiyāmati waznan} [al-kahf: 105] "

“A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and weighed against a grain, but will not equal it; he will be weighed against a mosquito’s wing, but will not equal it.” Then he recited: “On the Day of Resurrection We shall assign them no weight” (Qurʾān 18:105).

٧٠ - نَا بَكْرُ بْنُ خُنَيْسٍ، عَنْ ضِرَارِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ يَزِيدَ الرَّقَاشِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

70 - nā bakru ibnu khunaysin, ʿan ḍirāri ibni ʿamrin, ʿan yazīda al-raqāshiyyi, ʿan ʾanasin, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Bakr ibn Khunays narrated to us, from Ḍirār ibn ʿAmr, from Yazīd al-Raqāshī, from Anas, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«تُنْصَبُ الْمَوَازِينُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيُؤْتَى بِأَهْلِ الصَّلَاةِ وَأَهْلِ الصِّيَامِ، وَأَهْلِ الصَّدَقَةِ، وَأَهْلِ الْحَجِّ، فَيُؤْتَوْنَ بِالْمَوَازِينِ، وَيُؤْتَى بِأَهْلِ الْبَلَاءِ فَلَا يُنْصَبُ لَهُمْ مِيزَانٌ وَلَا يَنْشُرُ لَهُمْ دِيوَانٌ، وَيُصَبُّ الْأَجْرُ عَلَيْهِمْ صَبًّا بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ»

«tunṣabu al-mawāzīnu yawma al-qiyāmati, fayuʾtā biʾahli al-ṣalāti waʾahli al-ṣiyāmi, waʾahli al-ṣadaqati, waʾahli al-ḥajji, fayuʾtawna bi-l-mawāzīni, wayuʾtā biʾahli al-balāʾi falā yunṣabu lahum mīzānun walā yanshuru lahum dīwānun, wayuṣabbu al-ʾajru ʿalayhim ṣabban bighayri ḥisābin»

“The balances will be set up on the Day of Resurrection. Those devoted to prayer, fasting, charity, and pilgrimage will be brought and their scales will be presented. Those who bore affliction will be brought, but no scale will be set up for them and no register opened. Reward will be poured over them without reckoning.”

The reckoning on the Day of Resurrection

بَابُ وَضْعِ الْحِسَابِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

bābu waḍʿi al-ḥisābi yawma al-qiyāmati

The reckoning on the Day of Resurrection

٧١ - ثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، قَالَ:

71 - thanā sulaymānu ibnu al-mughīrati, ʿan ḥumaydi ibni hilālin, qāla:

Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra narrated to us, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, who said:

«ذُكِرَ لَنَا أَنَّ الرَّجُلَ يُدْعَى إِلَى الْحِسَابِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيُقَالُ: يَا فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ هَلُمَّ إِلَى الْحِسَابِ، حَتَّى يَقُولَ: مَا يُرَادُ أَحَدٌ غَيْرِي مِمَّا يَخْتَصُّ بِالْحِسَابِ»

«dhukira lanā ʾanna al-rajula yudʿā ʾilā al-ḥisābi yawma al-qiyāmati, fayuqālu: yā fulānu ibnu fulānin halumma ʾilā al-ḥisābi, ḥattā yaqūla: mā yurādu ʾaḥadun ghayrī mimmā yakhtaṣṣu bi-l-ḥisābi»

“It was mentioned to us that a man will be summoned to the reckoning on the Day of Resurrection. He will be called, ‘So-and-so son of so-and-so, come to the reckoning!’ He will think that nobody else is being sought for this particular reckoning.”

٧٢ - ثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سَالِمٍ، عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، قَالَ: كَانَ عَطَاءٌ يَقُولُ لِي:

72 - thanā saʿīdu ibnu sālimin, ʿan ṭalḥata ibni ʿamrin, qāla: kāna ʿaṭāʾun yaqūlu lī:

Saʿīd ibn Sālim narrated to us, from Ṭalḥa ibn ʿAmr, who said: ʿAṭāʾ used to say to me:

«يَا طَلْحَةُ مَا أَكْثَرَ الْأَسْمَاءَ عَلَى اسْمِكَ وَاسْمِي، فَإِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ قِيلَ: يَا فُلَانُ، فَلَا يَقُومُ غَيْرُهُ، يَقُولُ: لَا يَقُومُ غَيْرُ الَّذِي عُنِيَ»

«yā ṭalḥatu mā ʾakthara al-ʾasmāʾa ʿalā asmika wāsmī, faʾidhā kāna yawmu al-qiyāmati qīla: yā fulānu, falā yaqūmu ghayruhu, yaqūlu: lā yaqūmu ghayru al-adhī ʿuniya»

“Ṭalḥa, how many people share your name and mine! Yet on the Day of Resurrection, when ‘So-and-so!’ is called, nobody else will rise.” He meant that only the person intended will rise.

٧٣ - نَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْجَوْزَاءِ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {وَيَخَافُونَ سُوءَ الْحِسَابِ} [الرَّعْد: ٢١] قَالَ: «الْمُنَاقَشَةُ بِالْأَعْمَالِ»

73 - nā sulaymānu ibnu ḥayyāna, ʿan jaʿfari ibni sulaymāna, ʿan ʾabī al-jawzāʾi, fī qawlihi tabāraka wataʿālā: {wayakhāfūna sūʾa al-ḥisābi} [al-raʿd: 21] qāla: «al-munāqashatu bi-l-ʾaʿmāli»

Sulaymān ibn Ḥayyān narrated to us, from Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān, from Abū al-Jawzāʾ, concerning God’s words, blessed and exalted is He, “They fear a harsh reckoning” (Qurʾān 13:21). He said: “A close examination of one’s deeds.”

٧٤ - نَا نَصْرُ بْنُ طَرِيفٍ، عَنْ فَرْقَدٍ السَّبَخِيِّ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ: {أُولَئِكَ لَهُمْ سُوءُ الْحِسَابِ} [الرَّعْد: ١٨] قَالَ: «لَا يُقْبَلُ مِنْهُمْ حَسَنَةٌ، وَلَا يُتَجَاوَزُ عَنْ سَيِّئَةٍ»

74 - nā naṣru ibnu ṭarīfin, ʿan farqadin al-sabakhiyyi, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, qāla: samiʿtuhu yaqūlu: {ʾūlaʾika lahum sūʾu al-ḥisābi} [al-raʿd: 18] qāla: «lā yuqbalu minhum ḥasanatun, walā yutajāwazu ʿan sayyiʾatin»

Naṣr ibn Ṭarīf narrated to us, from Farqad al-Sabakhī, from Ibrāhīm, who said: I heard him recite, “Those will have a harsh reckoning” (Qurʾān 13:18). He said: “No good deed of theirs is accepted, and no evil deed is overlooked.”

٧٥ - ثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْأَسْوَدِ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

75 - thanā ibnu lahīʿata, thanā ʾabū al-ʾaswadi, ʿan ʿurwata, ʿan ʿāʾishata, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; Abū al-Aswad narrated to us, from ʿUrwa, from ʿĀʾisha, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«لَا يُحَاسَبُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَحَدٌ فَيُغْفَرُ لَهُ، يَرَى الْمُسْلِمُ عَمَلَهُ فِي قَبْرِهِ»، وَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: {فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَا يُسْأَلُ عَنْ ذَنْبِهِ إِنْسٌ وَلَا جَانٌّ} [الرَّحْمَٰن: ٣٩].. {يُعْرَفُ الْمُجْرِمُونَ بِسِيمَاهُمْ} [الرَّحْمَٰن: ٤١]

«lā yuḥāsabu yawma al-qiyāmati ʾaḥadun fayughfaru lahu, yarā al-muslimu ʿamalahu fī qabrihi», wayaqūlu Allāhu taʿālā: {fayawmaʾidhin lā yusʾalu ʿan dhanbihi ʾinsun walā jānnun} [al-raḥmān: 39].. {yuʿrafu al-mujrimūna bisīmāhum} [al-raḥmān: 41]

“No one is called to account on the Day of Resurrection and then forgiven. A Muslim sees his deeds in his grave.” God Most High says: “On that day neither human nor jinn will be questioned about their sin” (Qurʾān 55:39) … “The guilty will be recognized by their marks” (Qurʾān 55:41). [The juxtaposition and punctuation follow this edition’s text.]

٧٦ - ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَازِمٍ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

76 - thanā muḥammadu ibnu khāzimin, ʿan hishāmi ibni ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʿāʾishata, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Muḥammad ibn Khāzim narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, from his father, from ʿĀʾisha, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«مَنْ حُوسِبَ دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ؛ يَقُولُ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى {فَأَمَّا مِنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِيَمِينِهِ فَسَوْفَ يُحَاسَبُ حِسَابًا يَسِيرًا} [الِانْشِقَاق: ٨] وَيَقُولُ الْآخَرُ: {فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَا يُسْأَلُ عَنْ ذَنْبِهِ إِنْسٌ وَلَا جَانٌّ، فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ، يُعْرَفُ الْمُجْرِمُونَ بِسِيمَاهُمْ فَيُؤْخَذُ بِالنَّوَاصِي وَالْأَقْدَامِ} [الرَّحْمَٰن: ٣٩] »

«man ḥūsiba dakhala al-jannata; yaqūlu Allāha taʿālā {faʾammā min ʾūtiya kitābahu biyamīnihi fasawfa yuḥāsabu ḥisāban yasīran} [al-inshiqāq: 8] wayaqūlu al-ʾākharu: {fayawmaʾidhin lā yusʾalu ʿan dhanbihi ʾinsun walā jānnun, fabiʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni, yuʿrafu al-mujrimūna bisīmāhum fayuʾkhadhu bi-l-nawāṣī wa-l-ʾaqdāmi} [al-raḥmān: 39] »

“Whoever is called to account enters Paradise.” God Most High says: “As for the one given his record in his right hand, he will receive an easy reckoning” (Qurʾān 84:7–8). And the other says: “On that day neither human nor jinn will be questioned about their sin. Which of your Lord’s blessings will you both deny? The guilty will be recognized by their marks and seized by forelocks and feet” (Qurʾān 55:39–41). [“Enters Paradise” renders the reading printed here; it is not silently changed to the wording of a different recension.]

What is proclaimed on the Day of Resurrection

بَابُ ذِكْرِ مَا يُدْعَى يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

bābu dhikri mā yudʿā yawma al-qiyāmati

What is proclaimed on the Day of Resurrection

٧٧ - ثَنَا فُضَيْلُ بْنُ مَرْزُوقٍ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ السَّبِيعِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ، قَالَ:

77 - thanā fuḍaylu ibnu marzūqin, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa al-sabīʿiyyi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi ibni ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan ʿuqbata ibni ʿāmirin al-juhaniyyi, qāla:

Fuḍayl ibn Marzūq narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī, who said:

«يَتَجَلَّى ذُو الْعِزَّةِ، فَيَقُولُ: سَيَعْلَمُ الْجَمْعُ لِمَنِ الْكَرَمُ الْيَوْمَ، ثَلَاثًا، لِيَقُمِ الَّذِينَ {تَتَجَافَى جُنُوبُهُمْ عَنِ الْمَضَاجِعِ يَدْعُونَ رَبِّهِمْ خَوْفًا وَطَمَعًا وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنْفِقُونَ} [السَّجْدَة: ١٦]. قَالَ: فَيَقُومُونَ.

«yatajallā dhū al-ʿizzati, fayaqūlu: sayaʿlamu al-jamʿu limani al-karamu al-yawma, thalāthan, liyaqumi al-adhīna {tatajāfā junūbuhum ʿani al-maḍājiʿi yadʿūna rabbihim khawfan waṭamaʿan wamimmā razaqnāhum yunfiqūna} [al-sajda: 16]. qāla: fayaqūmūna.

“The Possessor of Might will disclose Himself and say three times, ‘The assembled people will know who is honored today. Let those rise whose sides shunned their beds, who called upon their Lord in fear and hope and gave from what We provided them’” (Qurʾān 32:16). “They will rise.

ثُمَّ يَقُولُ: سَيَعْلَمُ أَهْلُ الْجَمْعِ لِمَنِ الْكَرَمُ الْيَوْمَ، ثَلَاثًا، لِيَقُمِ الَّذِينَ {لَا تُلْهِيهِمُ تِجَارَةٌ وَلَا بَيْعٌ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَإِقَامِ الصَّلَاةِ وَإِيتَاءِ الزَّكَاةِ يَخَافُونَ يَوْمًا تَتَقَلَّبُ فِيهِ الْقُلُوبُ وَالْأَبْصَارُ} [النُّور: ٣٧] فَيَقُومُونَ ثُمَّ يَقُولُ: سَيَعْلَمُ أَهْلُ الْجَمْعِ لِمَنِ الْكَرَمُ الْيَوْمَ، ثَلَاثًا، لِيَقُمِ الْحَمَّادُونَ» قَالَ فُضَيْلٌ: فَسَأَلْتُ أَبَا إِسْحَاقَ: مَنَ الْحَمَّادُونَ؟ قَالَ: أُمَّةُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ

thumma yaqūlu: sayaʿlamu ʾahlu al-jamʿi limani al-karamu al-yawma, thalāthan, liyaqumi al-adhīna {lā tulhīhimu tijāratun walā bayʿun ʿan dhikri Allāhi waʾiqāmi al-ṣalāti waʾītāʾi al-zakāti yakhāfūna yawman tataqallabu fīhi al-qulūbu wa-l-ʾabṣāru} [al-nūr: 37] fayaqūmūna thumma yaqūlu: sayaʿlamu ʾahlu al-jamʿi limani al-karamu al-yawma, thalāthan, liyaqumi al-ḥammādūna» qāla fuḍaylun: fasaʾaltu ʾabā ʾisḥāqa: mana al-ḥammādūna? qāla: ʾummatu muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama

Then He will say three times, ‘The assembled people will know who is honored today. Let those rise whom neither trade nor sale distracted from remembering God, performing prayer, and giving alms, who feared a day when hearts and eyes would be overturned’” (Qurʾān 24:37). “They will rise. Then He will say three times, ‘The assembled people will know who is honored today. Let those who praise God abundantly rise.’” Fuḍayl said: I asked Abū Isḥāq, “Who are those who praise God abundantly?” He replied: “The community of Muḥammad, God bless him and grant him peace.”

٧٨ - نَا غَسَّانُ بْنُ بُرْزِينَ الطُّهَوِيُّ، ثَنَا سَيَّارُ بْنُ سَلَامَةَ الرِّيَاحِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ الرِّيَاحِيِّ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ:

78 - nā ghassānu ibnu burzīna al-ṭuhawiyyu, thanā sayyāru ibnu salāmata al-riyāḥiyyu, ʿan ʾabī al-ʿāliyati al-riyāḥiyyi, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin, qāla:

Ghassān ibn Burzīn al-Ṭuhawī narrated to us; Sayyār ibn Salāma al-Riyāḥī narrated to us, from Abū al-ʿĀliya al-Riyāḥī, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:

«يَقُومُ مُنَادٍ فَيُنَادِي: سَيَعْلَمُ أَهْلُ الْجَمْعِ مَنْ أَصْحَابُ الْكَرَمِ؟ أَيْنَ الْحَمَّادُونَ عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ؟ فَيَقُومُونَ، فَيُؤْمَرُ بِهِمْ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ،

«yaqūmu munādin fayunādī: sayaʿlamu ʾahlu al-jamʿi man ʾaṣḥābu al-karami? ʾayna al-ḥammādūna ʿalā kulli ḥālin? fayaqūmūna, fayuʾmaru bihim ʾilā al-jannati,

“A caller will stand and announce, ‘The assembled people will learn who is honored. Where are those who praise God in every circumstance?’ They will rise and be ordered into Paradise.

ثُمَّ يَقُومُ فَيُنَادِي الثَّانِيَةَ، فَيَقُولُ: سَيَعْلَمُ أَهْلُ الْجَمْعِ الْيَوْمَ مَنْ أَصْحَابُ الْكَرَمِ؟ أَيْنَ الَّذِينَ كَانَتْ {تَتَجَافَى جُنُوبُهُمْ عَنِ الْمَضَاجِعِ يَدْعُونَ رَبِّهِمْ خَوْفًا وَطَمَعًا وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنْفِقُونَ} [السَّجْدَة: ١٦] قَالَ: فَيَقُومُونَ، فَيُؤْمَرُ بِهِمْ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ.

thumma yaqūmu fayunādī al-thāniyata, fayaqūlu: sayaʿlamu ʾahlu al-jamʿi al-yawma man ʾaṣḥābu al-karami? ʾayna al-adhīna kānat {tatajāfā junūbuhum ʿani al-maḍājiʿi yadʿūna rabbihim khawfan waṭamaʿan wamimmā razaqnāhum yunfiqūna} [al-sajda: 16] qāla: fayaqūmūna, fayuʾmaru bihim ʾilā al-jannati.

The caller will stand a second time and announce, ‘Today the assembled people will learn who is honored. Where are those whose sides shunned their beds, who called upon their Lord in fear and hope and gave from what We provided them?’” (Qurʾān 32:16). “They will rise and be ordered into Paradise.

ثُمَّ يَقُومُ فَيُنَادِي الثَّالِثَةَ، فَيَقُولُ: سَيَعْلَمُ أَهْلُ الْجَمْعِ الْيَوْمَ مَنْ أَصْحَابُ الْكَرَمِ؟ أَيْنَ الَّذِينَ كَانَتْ {لَا تُلْهِيهِمْ تِجَارَةٌ وَلَا بَيْعٌ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَإِقَامِ الصَّلَاةِ وَإِيتَاءِ الزَّكَاةِ يَخَافُونَ يَوْمًا تَتَقَلَّبُ فِيهِ الْقُلُوبُ وَالْأَبْصَارُ} [النُّور: ٣٧]، فَيَقُومُونَ، فَيُؤْمَرُ بِهِمْ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ،

thumma yaqūmu fayunādī al-thālithata, fayaqūlu: sayaʿlamu ʾahlu al-jamʿi al-yawma man ʾaṣḥābu al-karami? ʾayna al-adhīna kānat {lā tulhīhim tijāratun walā bayʿun ʿan dhikri Allāhi waʾiqāmi al-ṣalāti waʾītāʾi al-zakāti yakhāfūna yawman tataqallabu fīhi al-qulūbu wa-l-ʾabṣāru} [al-nūr: 37], fayaqūmūna, fayuʾmaru bihim ʾilā al-jannati,

The caller will stand a third time and announce, ‘Today the assembled people will learn who is honored. Where are those whom neither trade nor sale distracted from remembering God, performing prayer, and giving alms, who feared a day when hearts and eyes would be overturned?’” (Qurʾān 24:37). “They will rise and be ordered into Paradise.

ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُ عُنُقٌ مِنَ النَّارِ حَتَّى يُشْرِفَ عَلَى الْخَلَائِقِ، لَهُ عَيْنَانِ بَصِيرَتَانِ، وَلِسَانٌ فَصِيحٌ، فَيَقُولُ: إِنِّي أُمِرْتُ بِثَلَاثٍ: بِكُلِّ جُبَارٍ عَنِيدٍ، فَهُوَ أَبْصَرُ بِهِمْ مِنَ الطَّيْرِ بِحَبِّ السِّمْسِمِ، فَيَلْقُطُهُمْ ثُمَّ يَخِيسُ بِهِمْ فِي جَهَنَّمَ

thumma yakhruju ʿunuqun mina al-nāri ḥattā yushrifa ʿalā al-khalāʾiqi, lahu ʿaynāni baṣīratāni, walisānun faṣīḥun, fayaqūlu: ʾinnī ʾumirtu bithalāthin: bikulli jubārin ʿanīdin, fahuwa ʾabṣaru bihim mina al-ṭayri biḥabbi al-simsimi, fayalquṭuhum thumma yakhīsu bihim fī jahannama

Then a neck of fire will emerge and tower over creation. It will have two seeing eyes and an eloquent tongue. It will say, ‘I have been commanded to take three groups: every stubborn tyrant.’ It will spot them more readily than a bird spots a sesame seed, snatch them up, and confine them in Hell.

ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُ الثَّانِيَةَ فَيَقُولُ: إِنِّي أُمِرْتُ بِالَّذِينَ كَانُوا يُؤْذُونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ، فَهُوَ أَبْصَرُ بِهِمْ مِنَ الطَّيْرِ بِحَبِّ السِّمْسِمِ، فَيَلْتَقِطُهُمْ، ثُمَّ يَخِيسُ بِهِمْ فِي جَهَنَّمَ،

thumma yakhruju al-thāniyata fayaqūlu: ʾinnī ʾumirtu bi-l-adhīna kānū yuʾdhūna Allāha warasūlahu, fahuwa ʾabṣaru bihim mina al-ṭayri biḥabbi al-simsimi, fayaltaqiṭuhum, thumma yakhīsu bihim fī jahannama,

It will emerge a second time and say, ‘I have been commanded to take those who harmed God and His Messenger.’ It will spot them more readily than a bird spots a sesame seed, snatch them up, and confine them in Hell.

ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُ الثَّالِثَةَ فَيَقُولُ: إِنِّي أُمِرْتُ بِالْمُصَوِّرِينَ، فَهُوَ أَبْصَرُ بِهِمْ مِنَ الطَّيْرِ بِحَبِّ السِّمْسِمِ، فَيَلْتَقِطُهُمْ، ثُمَّ يَخِيسُ بِهِمْ فِي جَهَنَّمَ، ثُمَّ تَطَايُرُ الصُّحُفُ مِنْ أَيْدِي النِّسَاءِ وَالرِّجَالِ»

thumma yakhruju al-thālithata fayaqūlu: ʾinnī ʾumirtu bi-l-muṣawwirīna, fahuwa ʾabṣaru bihim mina al-ṭayri biḥabbi al-simsimi, fayaltaqiṭuhum, thumma yakhīsu bihim fī jahannama, thumma taṭāyuru al-ṣuḥufu min ʾaydī al-nisāʾi wa-l-rijāli»

It will emerge a third time and say, ‘I have been commanded to take image-makers.’ It will spot them more readily than a bird spots a sesame seed, snatch them up, and confine them in Hell. Then the records will fly from the hands of women and men.”

٧٩ - ثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سَالِمٍ، عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ:

79 - thanā saʿīdu ibnu sālimin, ʿan ṭalḥata ibni ʿamrin, ʿan ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, qāla:

Saʿīd ibn Sālim narrated to us, from Ṭalḥa ibn ʿAmr, from ʿAṭāʾ, from Abū Hurayra, who said:

«إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنِّي جَعَلْتُ نَسَبًا، وَجَعَلْتُمْ نَسَبًا، فَقُلْتُ: أَكْرَمُكُمْ أَتْقَاكُمْ، وَأَبَيْتُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ تَقُولُوا: فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ وَفُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ أَكْرَمُ مِنْ فُلَانٍ، وَأَنَا الْيَوْمَ أَرْفَعُ نَسَبِي وَأَضَعُ نَسَبكُمْ، أَيْنَ الْمُتَّقُونَ؟» قَالَ طَلْحَةُ: فَكَانَ عَطَاءٌ يَقُولُ: يَقُولُ يَا طَلْحَةُ، فَلَا يَقُومُ إِلَّا مَنْ عُنِيَ

«ʾinna Allāha taʿālā yaqūlu yawma al-qiyāmati: yā ʾayyuhā al-nāsu ʾinnī jaʿaltu nasaban, wajaʿaltum nasaban, faqultu: ʾakramukum ʾatqākum, waʾabaytum ʾillā ʾan taqūlū: fulānu ibnu fulānin wafulānu ibnu fulānin ʾakramu min fulānin, waʾanā al-yawma ʾarfaʿu nasabī waʾaḍaʿu nasabkum, ʾayna al-muttaqūna?» qāla ṭalḥatu: fakāna ʿaṭāʾun yaqūlu: yaqūlu yā ṭalḥatu, falā yaqūmu ʾillā man ʿuniya

“God Most High will say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘People, I established one measure of lineage, but you established another. I said, “The most honored among you is the most God-fearing.” You insisted on saying, “So-and-so son of so-and-so is more honored than so-and-so.” Today I shall raise My measure and lower yours. Where are the God-fearing?’” Ṭalḥa said: ʿAṭāʾ used to say: “He will call, ‘Ṭalḥa!’ and only the one intended will rise.”

٨٠ - نَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ، سَمِعَ الْحَسَنَ، يَقُولُ:

80 - nā al-mubāraku ibnu faḍālata, qāla: ḥaddathanī rajulun, samiʿa al-ḥasana, yaqūlu:

Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla narrated to us. He said: A man who heard al-Ḥasan related to me that he said:

«إِذَا جَثَتِ الْأُمَمُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، نُودُوا: لِيَقُمْ مَنْ كَانَ أَجْرُهُ عَلَى اللَّهِ، فَلَا يَقُومُ إِلَّا مَنْ عَفَا فِي الدُّنْيَا»

«ʾidhā jathati al-ʾumamu bayna yaday rabbi al-ʿālamīna yawma al-qiyāmati, nūdū: liyaqum man kāna ʾajruhu ʿalā Allāhi, falā yaqūmu ʾillā man ʿafā fī al-dunyā»

“When the communities kneel before the Lord of the worlds on the Day of Resurrection, a call will go out: ‘Let those whose reward rests with God rise.’ None will rise except those who forgave others in this world.”

٨١ - نَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، نَا دَرَّاجٌ أَبُو السَّمْحِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ:

81 - nā ibnu lahīʿata, nā darrājun ʾabū al-samḥi, ʿan ʾabī al-haythami, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi, ʿan rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾannahu qāla:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; Darrāj Abū al-Samḥ narrated to us, from Abū al-Haytham, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, from the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ: سَيَعْلَمُ أَهْلُ الْجَمْعِ الْيَوْمَ: مَنْ أَهْلُ الْكَرَمِ؟ فَقِيلَ: وَمَنْ أَهْلُ الْكَرَمِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: أَهْلُ الذِّكْرِ فِي الْمَجَالِسِ»

«yaqūlu al-rabbu ʿazza wajalla yawma al-qiyāmati: sayaʿlamu ʾahlu al-jamʿi al-yawma: man ʾahlu al-karami? faqīla: waman ʾahlu al-karami yā rasūla Allāhi? qāla: ʾahlu al-dhikri fī al-majālisi»

“The Lord, mighty and majestic, will say on the Day of Resurrection: ‘Today the assembled people will learn: Who are the honored ones?’” He was asked, “Who are the honored ones, Messenger of God?” He said: “Those who remember God in their gatherings.”

God's reckoning with His servants on the Day of Resurrection

بَابُ ذِكْرِ مُحَاسَبَةِ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى الْعِبَادَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

bābu dhikri muḥāsabati Allāhi tabāraka wataʿālā al-ʿibāda yawma al-qiyāmati

God's reckoning with His servants on the Day of Resurrection

٨٢ - نَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ، وَثَابِتٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ:

82 - nā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan ḥumaydin, wathābitin, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla:

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Ḥumayd and Thābit, from al-Ḥasan, who said:

«يُوقَفُ ابْنُ آدَمَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ كَأَنَّهُ بَذَجٌ، فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: ابْنَ آدَمَ أَيْنَ مَا خَوَّلْتُكَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: أَيْ رَبِّ قَدْ وَفَّرْتُهُ وَثَمَّرْتُهُ، وَتَرَكْتُهُ أَوْفَرَ مَا كَانَ»

«yūqafu ibnu ʾādama yawma al-qiyāmati kaʾannahu badhajun, fayaqūlu Allāhu taʿālā: ibna ʾādama ʾayna mā khawwaltuka? fayaqūlu: ʾay rabbi qad waffartuhu wathammartuhu, wataraktuhu ʾawfara mā kāna»

“The son of Adam will stand on the Day of Resurrection like a little lamb. God Most High will ask, ‘Son of Adam, where is what I placed at your disposal?’ He will say, ‘My Lord, I saved and increased it, leaving it more abundant than ever.’”

٨٣ - نَا أَبُو هِلَالٍ، نَا قَتَادَةُ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ:

83 - nā ʾabū hilālin, nā qatādatu, ʿan ʾanasin, qāla:

Abū Hilāl narrated to us; Qatāda narrated to us, from Anas, who said:

«يُوقَفُ ابْنُ آدَمَ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ كَأَنَّهُ بَذَجٌ قَالَ: فَيَقُولُ: مَا صَنَعْتَ فِيمَا خَوَّلْتُكَ وَمَوَّلْتُكَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: أَيْ رَبِّ جَمَعْتُهُ وَثَمَّرْتُهُ، فَارْجِعْنِي آتِكَ بِهِ أَوْفَرَ مَا كَانَ. فَيَقُولُ لَهُ: مَا قَدَّمْتَ مِنْهُ؟ فَيَقُولُ: أَيْ رَبِّ جَمَعْتُهُ، وَثَمَّرْتُهُ، فَارْجِعْنِي آتِكَ بِهِ أَوْفَرَ مَا كَانَ. قَالَ: لَا، وَلَكِنْ مَا قَدَّمْتَ فَيُحَاسَبُ، فَإِذَا لَيْسَ لَهُ خَيْرٌ، فَيُؤْمَرُ بِهِ إِلَى النَّارِ»

«yūqafu ibnu ʾādama bayna yadayi Allāhi ʿazza wajalla kaʾannahu badhajun qāla: fayaqūlu: mā ṣanaʿta fīmā khawwaltuka wamawwaltuka? fayaqūlu: ʾay rabbi jamaʿtuhu wathammartuhu, fārjiʿnī ʾātika bihi ʾawfara mā kāna. fayaqūlu lahu: mā qaddamta minhu? fayaqūlu: ʾay rabbi jamaʿtuhu, wathammartuhu, fārjiʿnī ʾātika bihi ʾawfara mā kāna. qāla: lā, walakin mā qaddamta fayuḥāsabu, faʾidhā laysa lahu khayrun, fayuʾmaru bihi ʾilā al-nāri»

“The son of Adam will stand before God, mighty and majestic, like a little lamb. He will be asked, ‘What did you do with the possessions and wealth I placed at your disposal?’ He will say, ‘My Lord, I gathered and increased it. Send me back and I will bring it to You in greater abundance than ever.’ He will be asked, ‘What did you send ahead from it?’ He will repeat, ‘My Lord, I gathered and increased it. Send me back and I will bring it in greater abundance than ever.’ He will be told, ‘No; what did you send ahead?’ He will be called to account, and when he has no good to his credit, he will be ordered to the Fire.”

٨٤ - نَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

84 - nā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan ʾisḥāqa ibni ʿabdi Allāhi ibni ʾabī ṭalḥata, ʿan ʾabī ṣāliḥin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥa, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayra, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«يَقُولُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ: يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ أَلَمْ أَحْمِلْكَ عَلَى الْخَيْلِ وَالْإِبِلِ وَأُزَوِّجْكَ النِّسَاءَ، وَجَعَلْتُكَ تَرَبَعَ وَتَرْأَسُ؟ فَيَقُولُ: بَلَى. فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ فَأَيْنَ شُكْرُ ذَلِكَ؟»

«yaqūlu Allāhu ʿazza wajalla yawma al-qiyāmati: yā ibna ʾādama ʾalam ʾaḥmilka ʿalā al-khayli wa-l-ʾibili waʾuzawwijka al-nisāʾa, wajaʿaltuka tarabaʿa watarʾasu? fayaqūlu: balā. fayaqūlu Allāhu taʿālā: yā ibna ʾādama faʾayna shukru dhalika?»

“God, mighty and majestic, will say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘Son of Adam, did I not give you horses and camels to ride, provide you with wives, and make you master and leader?’ He will say, ‘Yes.’ God Most High will then say, ‘Son of Adam, where is your gratitude for that?’”

٨٥ - نَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ مِقْسَمٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

85 - nā ʿuthmānu ibnu miqsamin, ʿan qatādata, qāla: ḥaddathanī ʾanasu ibnu mālikin, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

ʿUthmān ibn Miqsam narrated to us, from Qatāda, who said: Anas ibn Mālik related to me that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«يُقَالُ لِلْكَافِرِ: لَوْ كَانَ لَكَ مِلْءُ الْأَرْضِ ذَهَبًا، أَكُنْتَ تَفْتَدِي بِهِ؟ قَالَ فَيَقُولُ: نَعَمْ. فَيُقَالُ: كَذَبْتَ، قَدْ سُئِلَتْ أَهْوَنَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ، فَلَمْ تَفْعَلْ، لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ»

«yuqālu li-l-kāfiri: law kāna laka milʾu al-ʾarḍi dhahaban, ʾakunta taftadī bihi? qāla fayaqūlu: naʿam. fayuqālu: kadhabta, qad suʾilat ʾahwana min dhalika, falam tafʿal, lā ʾilaha ʾillā Allāhu»

“The unbeliever will be asked, ‘If you possessed an earthful of gold, would you ransom yourself with it?’ He will say, ‘Yes.’ He will be told, ‘You speak falsely. You were asked for something easier than that, but you would not do it: to say, There is no god but God.’”

٨٦ - نَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

86 - nā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan thābitin al-bunāniyyi, ʿan ʾanasin, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Anas, that the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«يُجَاءُ بِرَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيُقَالُ لَهُ: كَيْفَ وَجَدْتَ مَنْزِلَكَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: خَيْرَ مَنْزِلٍ. فَيَقُولُ: سَلْ وَتَمَنَّ. فَيَقُولُ: مَا أَسْأَلُ وَمَا أَتَمَنَّى إِلَّا أَنْ تَرُدَّنِيَ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا فَأُقْتَلَ فِي سَبِيلِكَ عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ. قَالَ: وَيُجَاءُ بِرَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ النَّارِ، فَيَقُولُ: ابْنَ آدَمَ كَيْفَ وَجَدْتَ مَنْزِلَكَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: شَرَّ مَنْزِلٍ. فَيَقُولُ: افْتَدِ بِهِ بِمِلْءِ الْأَرْضِ ذَهَبًا. فَيَقُولُ: نَعَمْ. فَيَقُولُ: كَذَبْتَ، سُئِلَتْ أَيْسَرَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ»

«yujāʾu birajulin min ʾahli al-jannati yawma al-qiyāmati, fayuqālu lahu: kayfa wajadta manzilaka? fayaqūlu: khayra manzilin. fayaqūlu: sal watamanna. fayaqūlu: mā ʾasʾalu wamā ʾatamannā ʾillā ʾan taruddaniya ʾilā al-dunyā faʾuqtala fī sabīlika ʿashra marrātin. qāla: wayujāʾu birajulin min ʾahli al-nāri, fayaqūlu: ibna ʾādama kayfa wajadta manzilaka? fayaqūlu: sharra manzilin. fayaqūlu: aftadi bihi bimilʾi al-ʾarḍi dhahaban. fayaqūlu: naʿam. fayaqūlu: kadhabta, suʾilat ʾaysara min dhalika»

“A man from Paradise will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and asked, ‘How did you find your dwelling?’ He will say, ‘The best of dwellings.’ He will be told, ‘Ask and wish.’ He will say, ‘I ask and wish for nothing but to be returned to the world and killed in Your path ten times.’ Then a man from the Fire will be brought and asked, ‘Son of Adam, how did you find your dwelling?’ He will say, ‘The worst of dwellings.’ He will be told, ‘Would you ransom yourself from it with an earthful of gold?’ He will say, ‘Yes.’ He will be told, ‘You speak falsely. You were asked for something easier.’”

٨٧ - نَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

87 - nā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan thābitin, ʿan ʾanasi ibni mālikin, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Thābit, from Anas ibn Mālik, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«يُؤْتَى بِأَنْعَمِ النَّاسِ كَانَ فِي الدُّنْيَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيَقُولُ: اصْبُغُوهُ صَبْغَةً فِي النَّارِ، ثُمَّ يُؤْتَى بِهِ، فَيَقُولُ: يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ هَلْ أَصَبْتَ نَعِيمًا قَطُّ؟ هَلْ رَأَيْتَ قُرَّةَ عَيْنٍ قَطُّ؟ هَلْ رَأَيْتَ سُرُورًا قَطُّ؟ فَيَقُولُ: لَا وَعِزَّتِكَ مَا رَأَيْتُ خَيْرًا قَطُّ وَلَا سُرُورًا قَطُّ، وَلَا قُرَّةَ عَيْنٍ قَطُّ. قَالَ: فَيَقُولُ: رُدُّوهُ.

«yuʾtā biʾanʿami al-nāsi kāna fī al-dunyā yawma al-qiyāmati, fayaqūlu: aṣbughūhu ṣabghatan fī al-nāri, thumma yuʾtā bihi, fayaqūlu: yā ibna ʾādama hal ʾaṣabta naʿīman qaṭṭu? hal raʾayta qurrata ʿaynin qaṭṭu? hal raʾayta surūran qaṭṭu? fayaqūlu: lā waʿizzatika mā raʾaytu khayran qaṭṭu walā surūran qaṭṭu, walā qurrata ʿaynin qaṭṭu. qāla: fayaqūlu: ruddūhu.

“The person who enjoyed the greatest comfort in this world will be brought on the Day of Resurrection. He will be dipped once in the Fire, then brought forth and asked, ‘Son of Adam, did you ever know pleasure? Did you ever see anything that gladdened your eye or brought you joy?’ He will say, ‘By Your might, no. I never saw any good, any joy, or any delight.’ He will be ordered back.

قَالَ: وَيُؤْتَى بِأَشَدِّ النَّاسِ كَانَ بَلَاءً فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَضُرًّا وَجَهْدًا، فَيَقُولُ: اصْبُغُوهُ صَبْغَةً فِي الْجَنَّةِ. قَالَ: ثُمَّ يَقُولُ: يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ هَلْ رَأَيْتَ بُؤْسًا قَطُّ أَوْ شَيْئًا تَكْرَهُهُ؟ قَالَ: لَا وَعِزَّتِكَ مَا رَأَيْتُ شَيْئًا أَكْرَهُهُ قَطُّ»

qāla: wayuʾtā biʾashaddi al-nāsi kāna balāʾan fī al-dunyā, waḍurran wajahdan, fayaqūlu: aṣbughūhu ṣabghatan fī al-jannati. qāla: thumma yaqūlu: yā ibna ʾādama hal raʾayta buʾsan qaṭṭu ʾaw shayʾan takrahuhu? qāla: lā waʿizzatika mā raʾaytu shayʾan ʾakrahuhu qaṭṭu»

Then the person who suffered the most affliction, harm, and hardship in this world will be brought and dipped once in Paradise. He will be asked, ‘Son of Adam, did you ever know misery or experience anything you disliked?’ He will say, ‘By Your might, I never experienced anything I disliked.’”

٨٨ - ثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سِنَانٍ، عَنْ شَقِيقِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ، قَالَ:

88 - thanā yazīdu ibnu ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan ʾabī sinānin, ʿan shaqīqi ibni salamata, qāla:

Yazīd ibn ʿAṭāʾ narrated to us, from Abū Sinān, from Shaqīq ibn Salama, who said:

«إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَدْعُو الْعَبْدَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيَسْتُرُهُ بِيَدِهِ، ثُمَّ يَقُولُ لَهُ: أَتَعْرِفُ؟ فَيَقُولُ: نَعَمْ يَا رَبِّ فَيَقُولُ: إِنِّي قَدْ غَفَرْتُهَا لَكَ»

«ʾinna Allāha taʿālā yadʿū al-ʿabda yawma al-qiyāmati, fayasturuhu biyadihi, thumma yaqūlu lahu: ʾataʿrifu? fayaqūlu: naʿam yā rabbi fayaqūlu: ʾinnī qad ghafartuhā laka»

“God Most High will summon His servant on the Day of Resurrection and shield him with His hand. He will ask, ‘Do you recognize [these sins]?’ The servant will say, ‘Yes, my Lord.’ He will say, ‘I have forgiven you for them.’”

٨٩ - نَا عَدِيُّ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ، عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ، قَالَ:

89 - nā ʿadiyyu ibnu al-faḍli, ʿan yūnusa ibni ʿubaydin, ʿan ḥumaydi ibni hilālin, ʿan ʾabī burdata, ʿan ʾabī mūsā al-ʾashʿariyyi, qāla:

ʿAdī ibn al-Faḍl narrated to us, from Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, from Abū Burda, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, who said:

«إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ أُعْطِيَ الْمُؤْمِنُ كِتَابَهُ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ رَبِّهِ، فَيُقَرِّرُهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِذُنُوبِهِ، فَيَقُولُ: عَبْدِي عَمِلْتَ ذَنْبَ كَذَا وَكَذَا؟ فَيَقُولُ: نَعَمْ، فَيَغْفِرُهَا اللَّهُ لَهُ، وَيُبْدِلُهُ مَكَانَهَا حَسَنَاتٍ، فَذَلِكَ حِينَ يَقُولُ: {هَاؤُمُ اقْرَءُوا كِتَابِيَهْ} فَيَوَدُّ أَنَّ مَنْ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ يَنْظُرُونَ فِي كِتَابِهِ.

«ʾidhā kāna yawmu al-qiyāmati ʾuʿṭiya al-muʾminu kitābahu baynahu wabayna rabbihi, fayuqarriruhu Allāhu ʿazza wajalla bidhunūbihi, fayaqūlu: ʿabdī ʿamilta dhanba kadhā wakadhā? fayaqūlu: naʿam, fayaghfiruhā Allāhu lahu, wayubdiluhu makānahā ḥasanātin, fadhalika ḥīna yaqūlu: {hāʾumu aqraʾū kitābiyah} fayawaddu ʾanna man ʿalā al-ʾarḍi yanẓurūna fī kitābihi.

“On the Day of Resurrection, a believer will be given his record privately between himself and his Lord. God, mighty and majestic, will make him acknowledge his sins: ‘My servant, did you commit this sin and that?’ He will say, ‘Yes.’ God will forgive them and replace them with good deeds. Then he will say, ‘Here, read my record!’ and will wish that everyone on earth could look at it.

وَأَمَّا الْمُنَافِقُ فَيُعْطَى كِتَابَهُ، فَيَقُولُ: عَبْدِي عَمِلْتَ ذَنْبَ كَذَا وَكَذَا؟ فَيَقُولُ: وَعِزَّتِكَ إِنْ عَمِلْتُهُ فَيَقُولُ الْمَلِكُ: أَمَا عَمِلْتَ كَذَا وَكَذَا فِي سَاعَةِ كَذَا وَكَذَا؟ فَيَقُولُ: لَا وَعِزَّتِكَ إِنْ كُتِبَ عَلَيَّ إِلَّا بَاطِلٌ

waʾammā al-munāfiqu fayuʿṭā kitābahu, fayaqūlu: ʿabdī ʿamilta dhanba kadhā wakadhā? fayaqūlu: waʿizzatika ʾin ʿamiltuhu fayaqūlu al-maliku: ʾamā ʿamilta kadhā wakadhā fī sāʿati kadhā wakadhā? fayaqūlu: lā waʿizzatika ʾin kutiba ʿalayya ʾillā bāṭilun

As for the hypocrite, he will be given his record and asked, ‘My servant, did you commit this sin and that?’ He will say, ‘By Your might, I did not.’ The King will say, ‘Did you not do such-and-such at such-and-such an hour?’ He will answer, ‘No, by Your might; only falsehood has been written against me.’

فَيَقُولُ: عَمِلْتَ كَذَا وَكَذَا؟ فَيَقُولُ: لَا. فَيَقُولُ الْمَلِكُ: أَمَا عَمِلْتَ كَذَا وَكَذَا فِي يَوْمِ كَذَا وَكَذَا فِي سَاعَةِ كَذَا وَكَذَا؟ فَيَقُولُ: لَا وَعِزَّتِكَ فَيُخْتَمُ عَلَى فِيهِ» قَالَ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ: فَحَسِبْتُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: إِنَّ أَوَّلَ مَا يَنْطِقُ مِنْهُ فَخِذُهُ الْيُمْنَى

fayaqūlu: ʿamilta kadhā wakadhā? fayaqūlu: lā. fayaqūlu al-maliku: ʾamā ʿamilta kadhā wakadhā fī yawmi kadhā wakadhā fī sāʿati kadhā wakadhā? fayaqūlu: lā waʿizzatika fayukhtamu ʿalā fīhi» qāla al-ʾashʿariyyu: faḥasibtu ʾannahu qāla: ʾinna ʾawwala mā yanṭiqu minhu fakhidhuhu al-yumnā

He will be asked again, ‘Did you do such-and-such?’ He will say, ‘No.’ The King will say, ‘Did you not do such-and-such on such-and-such a day at such-and-such an hour?’ He will answer, ‘No, by Your might.’ Then his mouth will be sealed.” Al-Ashʿarī said: “I think he said that the first part of him to speak will be his right thigh.” [The source vocalizes الْمَلِكُ, “the King”; the English preserves this reading.]

٩٠ - ثَنَا عَدِيُّ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ، عَنْ بَهْزِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ حَيْدَةَ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:

90 - thanā ʿadiyyu ibnu al-faḍli, ʿan bahzi ibni ḥakīmin, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan jaddihi muʿāwiyata ibni ḥaydata, ʾannahu samiʿa rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:

ʿAdī ibn al-Faḍl narrated to us, from Bahz ibn Ḥakīm, from his father, from his grandfather Muʿāwiya ibn Ḥayda, who heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, say:

«إِنَّكُمْ تُدْعَوْنَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مُفَدَّمَةً أَفْوَاهُكُمْ بِالْفِدَامِ، فَأَوَّلُ مَا يُبِينُ مِنْ أَحَدِكُمْ فَخِذُهُ أَوْ كَفُّهُ»

«ʾinnakum tudʿawna yawma al-qiyāmati mufaddamatan ʾafwāhukum bi-l-fidāmi, faʾawwalu mā yubīnu min ʾaḥadikum fakhidhuhu ʾaw kaffuhu»

“On the Day of Resurrection you will be summoned with your mouths covered by a gag. The first part of you to speak clearly will be your thigh or your palm.”

٩١ - نَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ أَبَانَ، عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُزَنِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ، قَالَ:

91 - nā yazīdu ibnu ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan ʾabāna, ʿan bakri ibni ʿabdi Allāhi al-muzaniyyi, ʿan ʾabī rāfiʿin, qāla:

Yazīd ibn ʿAṭāʾ narrated to us, from Abān, from Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, from Abū Rāfiʿ, who said:

«بَلَغَنَا أَنَّهُ يُجَاءُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ لِابْنِ آدَمَ بِثَلَاثِ دَوَاوِينَ: دِيوَانٌ فِيهِ النِّعَمُ، وَدِيوَانٌ فِيهِ الْحِسَابُ، وَدِيوَانٌ فِيهِ ذُنُوبُهُ. فَيُقَالُ لِأَصْغَرِ تِلْكَ النِّعَمِ: قَوْمِي فَاسْتَوْفِي ثَمَنَكِ مِنَ الْحِسَابِ، فَتَسْتَوْعِبُ عَمَلَهُ ذَلِكَ كُلَّهُ، فَتَبْقَى ذُنُوبُهُ، وَالنِّعَمُ كَمَا هِيَ، فَمِنْ ثُمَّ يَقُولُ الْعَبْدُ: {إِنَّ رَبَّنَا لَغَفُورٌ شَكُورٌ} [فَاطِر: ٣٤] »

«balaghanā ʾannahu yujāʾu yawma al-qiyāmati li-ibni ʾādama bithalāthi dawāwīna: dīwānun fīhi al-niʿamu, wadīwānun fīhi al-ḥisābu, wadīwānun fīhi dhunūbuhu. fayuqālu liʾaṣghari tilka al-niʿami: qawmī fāstawfī thamanaki mina al-ḥisābi, fatastawʿibu ʿamalahu dhalika kullahu, fatabqā dhunūbuhu, wa-l-niʿamu kamā hiya, famin thumma yaqūlu al-ʿabdu: {ʾinna rabbanā laghafūrun shakūrun} [fāṭir: 34] »

“It reached us that on the Day of Resurrection the son of Adam will be presented with three registers: one of blessings, one of the reckoning, and one of his sins. The least of those blessings will be told, ‘Rise and claim your full worth from the account.’ It will exhaust all his deeds, while his sins and the other blessings remain. This is why the servant says, ‘Our Lord is truly forgiving and appreciative’” (Qurʾān 35:34).

٩٢ - نَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، ثَنَا دَرَّاجٌ، عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

92 - nā ibnu lahīʿata, thanā darrājun, ʿan ʾabī al-haythami, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi, ʿan rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; Darrāj narrated to us, from Abū al-Haytham, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, from the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ عُرِّفَ الْكَافِرُ بِعَمَلِهِ، فَجَحَدَ وَخَاصَمَ، فَيُقَالُ: هَؤُلَاءِ جِيرَانُكَ يَشْهَدُونَ عَلَيْكَ فَيَقُولُ: كَذَبُوا. فَيُقَالُ: أَهْلُكَ وَعَشِيرَتُكَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: كَذَبُوا. فَيُقَالُ: احْلِفُوا، فَيَحْلِفُونَ. ثُمَّ يُصْمِتُهُمُ اللَّهُ فَتَشَهَّدُ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ، ثُمَّ يُدْخِلُهُمُ النَّارَ»

«ʾidhā kāna yawmu al-qiyāmati ʿurrifa al-kāfiru biʿamalihi, fajaḥada wakhāṣama, fayuqālu: haʾulāʾi jīrānuka yashhadūna ʿalayka fayaqūlu: kadhabū. fayuqālu: ʾahluka waʿashīratuka? fayaqūlu: kadhabū. fayuqālu: aḥlifū, fayaḥlifūna. thumma yuṣmituhumu Allāhu fatashahhadu ʾalsinatuhum, thumma yudkhiluhumu al-nāra»

“On the Day of Resurrection, the unbeliever will be shown his deeds. He will deny and dispute them. He will be told, ‘These neighbors of yours testify against you.’ He will say, ‘They lie.’ He will be asked, ‘Your family and kin?’ He will say, ‘They lie.’ They will be told to swear an oath, and they will do so. Then God will silence them and their tongues will testify, after which He will consign them to the Fire.”

٩٣ - نَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، نَا الْحَارِثُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ كَثِيرٍ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَهُ يَقُولُ:

93 - nā ibnu lahīʿata, nā al-ḥārithu ibnu yazīda, ʿan kathīrin al-ʾaʿraji, ʿan ʿuqbata ibni ʿāmirin ʾannahu samiʿahu yaqūlu:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; al-Ḥārith ibn Yazīd narrated to us, from Kathīr al-Aʿraj, from ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir, whom he heard say:

«يُسْأَلُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ زَوْجُهُ، وَخَدَمُهُ، وَبَنُوهُ، وَعَشِيرَتُهُ، وَالْأَرْضُ. فَإِنْ أَثْنَوْا خَيْرًا زَكَّاهُ اللَّهُ، وَإِنْ أَثْنَوْا شَرًّا صَاحَتْ فَخِذُهُ الْيُسْرَى حَتَّى تُسْمَعَ، ثُمَّ أَدْحَضَ اللَّهُ حُجَّتُهُ»

«yusʾalu ʿani al-rajuli yawma al-qiyāmati zawjuhu, wakhadamuhu, wabanūhu, waʿashīratuhu, wa-l-ʾarḍu. faʾin ʾathnaw khayran zakkāhu Allāhu, waʾin ʾathnaw sharran ṣāḥat fakhidhuhu al-yusrā ḥattā tusmaʿa, thumma ʾadḥaḍa Allāhu ḥujjatuhu»

“On the Day of Resurrection a man’s wife, servants, children, clan, and the earth will be questioned about him. If they speak well of him, God will vindicate him. If they speak ill, his left thigh will cry out so that it is heard, and God will disprove his plea.”

٩٤ - نَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

94 - nā al-mubāraku ibnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«يُؤْتَى يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ بِابْنِ آدَمَ كَأَنَّهُ بَذَجٌ - يَعْنِي: كَأَنَّهُ وَلَدُ شَاةٍ - فَيَقُولُ لَهُ رَبُّهُ: يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ أَيْنَ مَا خَوَّلْتُكَ، وَأَيْنَ مَا مَلَكْتَ، وَأَيْنَ مَا أَعْطَيْتُكَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: رَبِّ جَمَعْتُهُ، وَثَمَّرْتُهُ، وَتَرَكْتُهُ أَكْثَرَ مَا كَانَ. فَيَقُولُ: هَاتِ مَا قَدَّمْتَ مِنْهُ فَلَا يَرَاهُ قَدَّمَ شَيْئًا، وَلَيْسَ بِرَاجِعٍ إِلَى مَا بَعْدَهُ»

«yuʾtā yawma al-qiyāmati bi-ibni ʾādama kaʾannahu badhajun - yaʿnī: kaʾannahu waladu shātin - fayaqūlu lahu rabbuhu: yā ibna ʾādama ʾayna mā khawwaltuka, waʾayna mā malakta, waʾayna mā ʾaʿṭaytuka? fayaqūlu: rabbi jamaʿtuhu, wathammartuhu, wataraktuhu ʾakthara mā kāna. fayaqūlu: hāti mā qaddamta minhu falā yarāhu qaddama shayʾan, walaysa birājiʿin ʾilā mā baʿdahu»

“The son of Adam will be brought on the Day of Resurrection like a little lamb—that is, like a young sheep. His Lord will ask him, ‘Son of Adam, where is what I placed at your disposal? Where is what you owned? Where is what I gave you?’ He will say, ‘My Lord, I gathered and increased it, leaving it more plentiful than ever.’ He will say, ‘Bring what you sent ahead from it.’ He will find that he sent nothing ahead, and he cannot return to what lies behind him.”

٩٥ - نَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عِيسَى، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ، عَنْ عَدِيِّ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

95 - nā yaḥyā ibnu ʿīsā, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan khaythamata, ʿan ʿadiyyi ibni ḥātimin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Khaythama, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«مَا مِنْكُمْ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلَّا سَيُكَلِّمُهُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ لَيْسَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَهُ تُرْجُمَانٌ، فَيَنْظُرُ أَيْمَنَ مِنْهُ فَلَا يَرَى إِلَّا مَا قَدَّمَ، وَيَنْظُرُ أَشْأَمَ مِنْهُ فَلَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَّا مَا قَدَّمَ، وَيَنْظُرُ أَمَامَهُ فَيَرَى النَّارَ، فَمَنِ اسْتَطَاعَ أَنْ يَتَّقِيَ النَّارَ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ فَلْيَفْعَلْ وَلَوْ بِشِقِّ تَمْرَةٍ»

«mā minkum min ʾaḥadin ʾillā sayukallimuhu Allāhu yawma al-qiyāmati laysa baynahu wabaynahu turjumānun, fayanẓuru ʾaymana minhu falā yarā ʾillā mā qaddama, wayanẓuru ʾashʾama minhu falā yanẓuru ʾillā mā qaddama, wayanẓuru ʾamāmahu fayarā al-nāra, famani astaṭāʿa ʾan yattaqiya al-nāra ʿan wajhihi falyafʿal walaw bishiqqi tamratin»

“Every one of you will be spoken to by God on the Day of Resurrection, with no interpreter between them. He will look to his right and see only what he sent ahead; look to his left and see only what he sent ahead; then look in front of him and see the Fire. Let whoever can shield his face from the Fire do so, even with half a date.”

٩٦ - ثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ هِلَالٍ الْوَزَّانِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُكَيْمٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا مَسْعُودٍ، بَدَأَ بِالْيَمِينِ قَبْلَ الْحَدِيثِ قَالَ:

96 - thanā sharīkun, ʿan hilālin al-wazzāni, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi ibni ʿukaymin, qāla: samiʿtu ʾabā masʿūdin, badaʾa bi-l-yamīni qabla al-ḥadīthi qāla:

Sharīk narrated to us, from Hilāl al-Wazzān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUkaym, who said: I heard Abū Masʿūd begin with an oath before his account. He said:

«وَاللَّهِ إِنْ مِنْكُمْ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلَّا سَيَخْلُو اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ كَمَا يَخْلُو أَحَدُكُمْ بِالْقَمَرِ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ أَوْ قَالَ: لِلَيْلَتِهِ يَقُولُ: مَا غَرَّكَ بِي ابْنَ آدَمَ؟ مَا غَرَّكَ بِي ابْنَ آدَمَ؟ مَاذَا عَمِلْتَ فِيمَا عَلِمْتَ؟ ابْنَ آدَمَ مَاذَا أَجَبْتَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ؟»

«wa-llāhi ʾin minkum min ʾaḥadin ʾillā sayakhlū Allāhu ʿazza wajalla bihi yawma al-qiyāmati kamā yakhlū ʾaḥadukum bi-l-qamari laylata al-badri ʾaw qāla: li-l-aylatihi yaqūlu: mā gharraka bī ibna ʾādama? mā gharraka bī ibna ʾādama? mādhā ʿamilta fīmā ʿalimta? ibna ʾādama mādhā ʾajabta al-mursalīna?»

“By God, every one of you will be alone with God, mighty and majestic, on the Day of Resurrection as one of you may be alone with the full moon—or he said, on its night. He will ask: ‘Son of Adam, what led you to be deceived about Me? Son of Adam, what led you to be deceived about Me? What did you do with the knowledge you had? Son of Adam, how did you respond to the messengers?’”

٩٧ - نَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

97 - nā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan ʿaliyyi ibni zaydin, ʿan ʾabī rāfiʿin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, from Abū Rāfiʿ, from Abū Hurayra, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«أَرْبَعَةٌ كُلُّهُمْ يُدْلِي بِحُجَّةٍ وَعُذْرٍ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ: الشَّيْخُ الَّذِي أَدْرَكَ الْإِسْلَامَ هَرِمًا، وَالْأَصَمُّ الْأَبْكَمُ، وَالْمَعْتُوهُ، وَرَجُلٌ مَاتَ فِي الْفَتْرَةِ. فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: إِنِّي مُرْسِلٌ إِلَيْكُمْ رَسُولًا، فَأَطِيعُوهُ، فَيَأْتِيهِمُ الرَّسُولُ فَيُؤَجِّجُ لَهُمْ نَارًا لِيَقْتَحِمُوهَا، فَمَنِ اقْتَحَمَهَا كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ بَرْدًا وَسَلَامًا، وَمَنْ لَمْ يَقْتَحِمْهَا حَقَّتْ عَلَيْهِ كَلِمَةُ الْعَذَابِ».

«ʾarbaʿatun kulluhum yudlī biḥujjatin waʿudhrin yawma al-qiyāmati: al-shaykhu al-adhī ʾadraka al-ʾislāma hariman, wa-l-ʾaṣammu al-ʾabkamu, wa-l-maʿtūhu, warajulun māta fī al-fatrati. fayaqūlu Allāhu ʿazza wajalla: ʾinnī mursilun ʾilaykum rasūlan, faʾaṭīʿūhu, fayaʾtīhimu al-rasūlu fayuʾajjiju lahum nāran liyaqtaḥimūhā, famani aqtaḥamahā kānat ʿalayhi bardan wasalāman, waman lam yaqtaḥimhā ḥaqqat ʿalayhi kalimatu al-ʿadhābi».

“Four people will each present an argument and excuse on the Day of Resurrection: an old man who reached Islam in extreme old age, a person both deaf and unable to speak, a person with a severe impairment of understanding, and a man who died in the interval between messengers. God, mighty and majestic, will say, ‘I shall send you a messenger, so obey him.’ A messenger will come and kindle a fire for them to enter. Whoever enters it will find it cool and peaceful; whoever does not will incur the sentence of punishment.”

٩٨ - ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ حَمَّادٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، مِثْلَهُ

98 - thanā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan ḥammādin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, mithlahu

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Ḥammād, from Ibrāhīm, from Abū Hurayra: “The same account.” [The source repeats the chain and says only مِثْلَهُ, referring to report 97.]

The settling of wrongs on the Day of Resurrection

بَابُ ذِكْرِ الْقِصَاصِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

bābu dhikri al-qiṣāṣi yawma al-qiyāmati

The settling of wrongs on the Day of Resurrection

٩٩ - نَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، نَا دَرَّاجٌ، عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

99 - nā ibnu lahīʿata, nā darrājun, ʿan ʾabī al-haythami, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi, ʿan rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; Darrāj narrated to us, from Abū al-Haytham, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, from the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَتَخْتَصِمُنَّ، حَتَّى الشَّاتَانِ فِيمَا انْتَطَحَتَا»

«wa-l-adhī nafsī biyadihi latakhtaṣimunna, ḥattā al-shātāni fīmā antaṭaḥatā»

“By the One in whose hand is my soul, you will surely bring your claims against one another—even two sheep over the blows they exchanged with their horns.”

١٠٠ - نَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

100 - nā al-mubāraku ibnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَيُحْبَسَنَّ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ بَعْدَمَا يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ النَّارِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ، ثُمَّ يُقْتَصُّ لِبَعْضِهِمْ مِنْ بَعْضٍ مَظَالِمُهُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ، ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لَهُمْ: {طِبْتُمْ فَادْخُلُوهَا خَالِدِينَ} [الزُّمَر: ٧٣] »

«wa-l-adhī nafsī biyadihi layuḥbasanna ʾahlu al-jannati baʿdamā yakhrujūna mina al-nāri qabla ʾan yadkhulū al-jannata, thumma yuqtaṣṣu libaʿḍihim min baʿḍin maẓālimuhum baynahum, thumma yuqālu lahum: {ṭibtum fādkhulūhā khālidīna} [al-zumar: 73] »

“By the One in whose hand is my soul, the people of Paradise will be detained after emerging from the Fire and before entering Paradise. Their wrongs against one another will then be settled, and they will be told, ‘You have become pure; enter it forever’” (Qurʾān 39:73).

١٠١ - نَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

101 - nā al-mubāraku ibnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَيُرْفَعَنَّ لِلْعَبْدِ حَسَنَاتٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَرْجُو أَنْ يَغْفِرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِهَا، فَمَا يَزَالُ الرَّجُلُ يَقُولُ: يَا رَبِّ عَبْدُكَ هَذَا ظَلَمَنِي، فَيَأْخُذُ اللَّهُ مِنْ حَسَنَاتِهِ فَيَجْعَلُهُ عَلَى حَسَنَاتِ الْمَظْلُومِ، ثُمَّ يَقُومُ آخَرُ فَيَقُولُ: يَا رَبِّ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ، فَلَا يَزَالُ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى مَا يَبْقَى لَهُ حَسَنَةٌ يُعْطَى بِهَا خَيْرًا»

«wa-l-adhī nafsī biyadihi layurfaʿanna li-l-ʿabdi ḥasanātun yawma al-qiyāmati yarjū ʾan yaghfira Allāhu lahu bihā, famā yazālu al-rajulu yaqūlu: yā rabbi ʿabduka hadhā ẓalamanī, fayaʾkhudhu Allāhu min ḥasanātihi fayajʿaluhu ʿalā ḥasanāti al-maẓlūmi, thumma yaqūmu ʾākharu fayaqūlu: yā rabbi mithla dhalika, falā yazālu kadhalika ḥattā mā yabqā lahu ḥasanatun yuʿṭā bihā khayran»

“By the One in whose hand is my soul, a servant’s good deeds will be raised for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will hope that God will forgive him through them. But one man after another will say, ‘My Lord, this servant of Yours wronged me.’ God will take from his good deeds and add them to the good deeds of the one who suffered the wrong. Then another will rise and make the same claim. It will continue until not one good deed remains by which he might receive any good.”

١٠٢ - نَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

102 - nā ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi ibnu muḥammadin, ʿani al-ʿalāʾi ibni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from his father, from Abū Hurayra, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«لَتُؤَدُّنَ الْحُقُوقَ إِلَى أَهْلِهَا، حَتَّى يُقَادَ لِلشَّاةِ الْجَلْحَاءِ مِنَ الشَّاةِ الْقَرْنَاءِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»

«latuʾadduna al-ḥuqūqa ʾilā ʾahlihā, ḥattā yuqāda li-l-shāti al-jalḥāʾi mina al-shāti al-qarnāʾi yawma al-qiyāmati»

“You will assuredly restore rights to those entitled to them—even the hornless sheep will receive redress from the horned sheep on the Day of Resurrection.”

١٠٣ - نَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، نَا ابْنُ سَوَادَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي تَمِيمٍ الْجَيْشَانِيِّ، قَالَ: دَخَلْنَا عَلَى أَبِي ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيِّ، فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ:

103 - nā ibnu lahīʿata, nā ibnu sawādata, ʿan ʾabī tamīmin al-jayshāniyyi, qāla: dakhalnā ʿalā ʾabī dharrin al-ghifāriyyi, fasamiʿtuhu yaqūlu:

Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us; Ibn Sawāda narrated to us, from Abū Tamīm al-Jayshānī, who said: We visited Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī and I heard him say:

«وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَتُسْأَلَنَّ الشَّاةُ فِيمَا نَطَحَتْ صَاحِبَتَهَا، وَلَيُسْأَلَنَّ الْحَجَرُ فِيمَا نَكَبَ أُصْبُعَ الرَّجُلِ»

«wa-l-adhī nafsī biyadihi latusʾalanna al-shātu fīmā naṭaḥat ṣāḥibatahā, walayusʾalanna al-ḥajaru fīmā nakaba ʾuṣbuʿa al-rajuli»

“By the One in whose hand is my soul, the sheep will be questioned about butting its companion, and the stone will be questioned about bruising a man’s toe.”

١٠٤ - نَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ صُهَيْبٍ الْحَذَّاءِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

104 - nā ḥammādu ibnu salamata, ʿan ʿamri ibni dīnārin, ʿan ṣuhaybin al-ḥadhdhāʾi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi ibni ʿamri ibni al-ʿāṣi, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from Ṣuhayb al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«مَنْ قَتَلَ عُصْفُورًا بِغَيْرِ حَقِّهِ، سَأَلَهُ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»

«man qatala ʿuṣfūran bighayri ḥaqqihi, saʾalahu Allāhu ʿanhu yawma al-qiyāmati»

“Whoever kills a small bird without right will be questioned by God about it on the Day of Resurrection.”