It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Aqil al-Thaqafi (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) with the delegation of Banu Thaqif. We travelled along one of the roads of Madinah until we made our camels kneel at (his) door. At that time there was no one among the people more hateful to us than the man to whom we were going in (that is, at first we had intense hatred for him). But when we entered, greeted him and gave our pledge of allegiance, then by the time we came out there was no one among the people more beloved to us than the man from whose presence we had come out. I said: O Messenger of Allah! Did you not ask your Lord for a kingdom like the kingdom of Sulayman (peace be upon him)? He (peace and blessings be upon him) smiled and said: "Perhaps your companion (the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him) has with Allah something better than the kingdom of Sulayman (peace be upon him). Allah gave every prophet one supplication (which was to be accepted). Some of them asked for worldly things with it and were given them, and some prayed against their people and they were destroyed. Allah gave me a supplication too, and I have kept it hidden (in reserve) with my Lord as intercession for my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection." Muslim used Ali bin Hashim as evidence, and Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Aqil al-Thaqafi is a Companion whom our imams have used as evidence in their Musnad collections. As for Abd al-Jabbar bin al-Abbas, he is one of those narrators whose hadiths are collected, and his Musnad narrations are counted among the Kufans.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I was shown what my Ummah will face after me, and their shedding of one another's blood, and this had already been decreed by Allah just as it was in the nations before. So I asked Allah to grant me the right of intercession for them on the Day of Resurrection, and Allah granted it." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it. The hidden defect ('illah) in it, in their view, was that Abu al-Yaman narrated it in two ways: once he said "Shu'ayb from al-Zuhri from Anas", and another time he said "Shu'ayb from Ibn Abi Husayn from Anas". We have already stated that there is nothing objectionable in an imam having a hadith from two teachers, narrating it sometimes from one and sometimes from the other. And Abu al-Yaman himself clarified: This hadith is in fact al-Zuhri's hadith, and what I narrated from Ibn Abi Husayn was my mistake, caused by a leaf that I turned over. Imam al-Hakim said: This clarification is perfectly clear and acceptable, because Ibrahim bin Hani is trustworthy (thiqah) and reliable.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My intercession is for those of my Ummah who commit major sins." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it with these words; they recorded the lengthy hadith of Qatadah. Whoever imagines that these words are part of that same lengthy hadith is mistaken, because this (short) report about intercession is a refutation of those innovators who distinguish between intercession for those who commit minor sins and for those who commit major sins.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Intercession is for those of my Ummah who commit major sins."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My intercession is for those of my Ummah who will have committed major (grave) sins." This hadith has a sahih supporting report (shahid) on the condition of Muslim.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My intercession is for those of my Ummah who commit major sins." Both of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) used Zuhayr bin Muhammad al-Anbari as evidence, and Muhammad bin Thabit al-Bunani corroborated him (mutaba'ah) in narrating it from Ja'far (al-Sadiq).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My intercession is for those of my Ummah who commit major sins." Abu Ja'far (the narrator) said: Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said to me: O Muhammad! Whoever is not among those who commit major sins, what need has he of intercession? (That is, intercession exists precisely for sinners.)

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): What reply did your Lord give you concerning intercession? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose Hand is my soul! I thought that you would be the first to ask me about this, because I had seen your eagerness and longing for knowledge. By the One in whose Hand is my soul! The people's crowding at the gate of Paradise (because of their great numbers) concerns me more than the completion of my intercession. My intercession is for everyone who testifies sincerely that there is no god but Allah, in such a way that his heart confirms his tongue and his tongue confirms his heart." The chain of this hadith is sahih, and Mu'awiyah bin Mu'attib is an Egyptian from among the Tabi'in. Bukhari recorded this hadith through Amr bin Abi Amr (the freed slave of al-Muttalib), in which Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) asks who will be the most fortunate of people with his intercession; although its wording is different, its meaning is close to this.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will say: Bring out of Hell everyone who said 'La ilaha illallah' (There is no god but Allah) and had in his heart faith equal to the weight of a speck; bring out of Hell everyone who said 'La ilaha illallah' and had in his heart faith equal to a grain of wheat; and bring out of Hell everyone who said 'La ilaha illallah', or remembered Me (at any time), or feared Me in any situation." The chain of this hadith is sahih, but the two Shaykhs did not record the words: "whoever remembered Me or feared Me in any situation".

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty will say: Bring out of Hell whoever remembered Me or whoever feared Me in any situation."