It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: One night we sat conversing with the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and we prolonged our conversation. Then we returned to our homes. When morning came, we went to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Last night the prophets were presented to me with the followers from their nations. A prophet would pass by with three men of his people with him, a prophet would pass by with a group with him, a prophet would pass by with a few people with him, and a prophet would pass by with not a single one of his people with him. Until Musa bin Imran (peace be upon him) passed before me with a great multitude of the Children of Israel. When I saw them, they impressed me greatly, and I said: O my Lord, who are these? Allah Almighty said: This is your brother Musa bin Imran, and these are his followers from the Children of Israel. I said: O my Lord, then where is my Ummah? It was said to me: Look to your right. And behold, the hills of Makkah were filled with the faces of people. I said: O my Lord, who are these? Allah Almighty said: This is your Ummah. Then I was asked: Are you pleased? I said: O my Lord, I am pleased." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then it was said to me: Along with these are seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without reckoning." The narrator said: (Hearing this) Ukkashah bin Mihsan (may Allah be pleased with him), the brother of Banu Asad bin Khuzaymah, stood up and said: O Prophet of Allah, supplicate to your Lord to make me one of them (the seventy thousand). He (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated: "O Allah, make him one of them." Then another man stood up and said: O Prophet of Allah, supplicate to your Lord to make me one of them too. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ukkashah has beaten you to it." The narrator said: Then the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May my father and mother be your ransom! If you can be among these seventy thousand, then be among them; and if you are unable and fall short, then be among the people of the hills; and if you are unable even for that and fall short, then be among the people of the horizon (that is, the general throng), for I saw a great crowd of people there." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I hope that the followers of my Ummah will be a quarter of the people of Paradise." The narrator said: So we said the takbir (Allahu Akbar). Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I hope that you will be a third." So we said the takbir. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I hope that you will be half." So we said the takbir. Then the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recited this verse: "A large company from the earlier peoples, and a large company from the later peoples" [Surah al-Waqi'ah: 39 - 40] . The narrator said: Then the Muslims discussed among themselves about these seventy thousand and said: Do you think they are people who were born in Islam and then continued to act upon it until they died?! This talk of theirs reached the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is not so; rather, they are those who do not seek ruqyah, do not get themselves cauterised, do not take bad omens, and (in all their affairs) rely only upon their Lord." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it with this wording.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her); she said: I remembered the Fire and wept. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "O Aishah, what is the matter with you?" I said: I remembered the Fire and wept. Will you people remember your families on the Day of Resurrection? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are three places where no one will remember anyone: [at the Scale] , until he knows whether his scale is light or heavy; and at the time the records are given, when it is said: 'Haa'umuqra'u kitabiyah' (Come, read my record), until he knows where his record will be placed, in his right hand, in his left hand, or behind his back; and at the Sirat, when it is placed over the back of Hell, on both its sides many hooks and thorns, by which Allah will hold back whomever He wills of His creation, (in these places no one will remember anyone) until he knows whether he will be saved or not." This hadith is sahih (authentic); its chain is on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), although there is irsal (a break in the chain) in it between al-Hasan and Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her). However, it is authentically established by reports that al-Hasan used to visit the homes of Sayyidah Aishah and Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with them both) as a child.

It is narrated from Ibn Abi Mulaykah; he said: We were sitting with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) in the Hatim (the Hijr of the Ka'bah), and he said: "Weep, and if weeping does not come to you, then make yourselves weep. If you knew the reality, one of you would pray until his back broke, and weep until his voice gave out." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: "If you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much; food and drink would not be pleasing to you, you would not sleep on beds, you would keep away from women, and you would go out to the hills and open plains, where you would cry out imploringly and weep. And I wish that Allah Almighty had created me a tree that is cut down." This chain is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If you knew what I know, you would weep much and laugh little. Hypocrisy will appear, trustworthiness will be taken away, mercy will be seized, the trustworthy will be accused and the treacherous will be deemed trustworthy. I see al-shuruf al-jun among you." The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) said: O Messenger of Allah, what are al-shuruf al-jun? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Trials that will overspread like portions of a dark night." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it with this wording.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him); he said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, I see what you do not see and I hear what you do not hear. The heaven groans (under its weight) and it has the right to groan; there is not a space in it the size of four fingers except that an angel has placed his forehead there in prostration before Allah. By Allah, if you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much, you would not take pleasure with women on beds, and you would go out to the hills and open plains, crying out imploringly before Allah." (Hearing this, Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said:) "By Allah, I wish that I were a tree that is cut down." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.