It is narrated from Abdullah bin Buraydah that he said: I was told that Abu Sabrah bin Salamah al-Hudhali heard Ibn Ziyad asking about the Pool, the Pool of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and Ibn Ziyad said: I do not consider it to be true. This was even though he had already asked Abu Barzah al-Aslami, al-Bara' bin Azib and A'idh bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them), yet he said: I do not believe these people. So Abu Sabrah said: Shall I not narrate to you a hadith that brings healing (from doubt)? Your father sent me with wealth to Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him), and there I met Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both). He narrated this hadith to me from his own mouth, and I wrote it down with my own pen exactly as he had heard it from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); I did not add or omit a single letter. He told me that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, Allah Almighty does not love the one who is obscene or the one who speaks lewdly. By the One in whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! The Hour will not be established until obscene speech, shamelessness, severing the ties of kinship and ill-treatment of neighbours become widespread, and the trustworthy person comes to be regarded as treacherous and the treacherous as trustworthy. The example of the believer is like the bee: it eats what is pure, produces what is pure (honey) and settles on what is pure; it neither spoils (the flower) nor breaks it. And the example of the believing servant is like a fine piece of gold which, when heated (in the furnace), comes out pure, and when it is weighed, its weight is not lessened." And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Your meeting place is my Pool. Its breadth is equal to its length, and it is wider than the distance between Aylah and Makkah, which is a month's journey. On it are jugs shining like the stars. Its water is whiter than silver. Whoever comes to it and drinks from it once will never be thirsty after that." Ibn Ziyad said: No one has narrated to me a hadith like this. I bear witness that the Pool is true and certain. Then he took the scroll that Abu Sabrah had brought. This hadith is sahih (authentic). The two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) agreed on using all of its narrators as evidence except Abu Sabrah al-Hudhali; he is a senior Tabi'i whose mention is found in the Musnad collections and the books of history, and he has not been criticised.

It is narrated from Abu Sabrah al-Hudhali that he mentioned this same long hadith.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Barzah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "My Pool is (as wide as) the distance between Aylah and San'a'. Its breadth is equal to its length. Two spouts pour into it from Paradise, one of silver and the other of gold. Its water is sweeter than honey, colder than snow, whiter than milk and softer than butter. On it are jugs as many as the stars of the sky. Whoever drinks from it will never feel thirst until he enters Paradise." The narrator said that Ayyub added in this narration: "They (the cups) will leap of their own accord into the hands of the believers." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim, because he used two hadiths of Abu Talhah al-Rasibi as evidence; and this narration of Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani is gharib (singular) and sahih, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Arqam (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You are not even one part in a hundred thousand of those who will come to me at the Pool." People asked him: How many were you (at that time)? He said: Eight hundred or nine hundred. Imam Bukhari used Abu Hamzah al-Ansari (Talhah bin Yazid) as evidence.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Arqam (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You are not even one part in a hundred thousand of those who will come to me at the Pool on the Day of Resurrection." The narrator said: We asked Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him): How many were you that day? He said: Between six hundred and seven hundred. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it; they left it because there is a difference in its text regarding the number. And Allah knows best.

It is narrated from Yazid bin Hayyan al-Taymi that he said: I was present with Sayyiduna Zayd bin Arqam (may Allah be pleased with him) when Ubaydullah bin Ziyad sent for him and said: What are these hadiths that have reached me about you, that you narrate from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and claim that he (peace and blessings be upon him) has a Pool in Paradise? He replied: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) narrated this to us and promised it to us. He said: You are lying; you (Zayd bin Arqam) have grown old and senile. Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Indeed, these ears of mine heard it from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and I also heard him (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Whoever deliberately lies about me, let him take his seat in the Fire." And I have never lied about the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). It has a shahid (supporting narration) on the condition of Muslim, narrated from Zayd bin Arqam (may Allah be pleased with him), in which the Pool is mentioned in other words.