It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning the saying of Allah Almighty: "And there is none of you except he will come to it"; he said: "People will come to it, then they will cross from it according to their deeds." Abd al-Rahman bin Mahdi said: I narrated this hadith to Shu'bah by way of Isra'il, al-Suddi, Murrah and Abdullah as marfu' (attributed) to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and Shu'bah said: "I too heard it from al-Suddi as marfu', but I have deliberately left it (narrating it as marfu')."

It is narrated from Abd al-Rahman bin Shaybah; he said: We differed here about al-wurud (the "coming to" mentioned in the verse). One group said that no believer will enter it, and others said that they will all enter it, then Allah Almighty will save those who were pious. I met Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) and asked him about it, and he said: "They will all enter it, then Allah will save those who were pious." I said to him: We have differed about this in Basrah; one group says no believer will enter it, and others say all will enter it, then Allah will save the pious. On hearing this he pointed his two fingers to his ears and said: "May these two ears of mine become deaf if I did not hear the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: Al-wurud means entering. No righteous or wicked person will remain who does not enter it, but it (the Fire) will become coolness and safety for the believer just as it became for Ibrahim (peace be upon him), so much so that the Fire - or he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Hell - will be heard crying out because of its coolness. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then Allah will save those who were pious and leave the wrongdoers in it on their knees." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Murrah al-Hamdani that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked about this saying of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic: "And there is none of you except he will come to it" [Surah Maryam: 71] , and he said: "And there is none of you except he will enter it." "This is upon your Lord an inevitability decreed" [Surah Maryam: 71] . (Then he said:) "Then Allah will save those who were pious and leave the wrongdoers in it on their knees." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection a man will take hold of his father's hand, and while taking him across the Fire he will want to admit him into Paradise." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then it will be announced: 'Indeed, no polytheist shall enter Paradise. Listen! Indeed, Allah has forbidden Paradise to every polytheist.'" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then he will say: 'O my Lord! (This is) my father.' So his father will be transformed into an extremely ugly and foul-smelling form, and he will leave him." The narrator said: The Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) held that this man is Sayyiduna Ibrahim (peace be upon him), and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not tell them anything more than that. 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 Qays bin Abi Hazim; he said: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Rawahah (may Allah be pleased with him) wept, so his wife also began to weep. He asked her: "What has made you weep?" She said: I saw you weeping, so I wept too. He said: "I have been informed that I will come to it (Hell) (i.e. pass over the Sirat), but I have not been informed that I will also get across it." 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 Qays bin Abi Hazim; he said: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Rawahah (may Allah be pleased with him) had his head resting in his wife's lap when he began to weep, so his wife also began to weep. He asked her: "What has made you weep?" She said: I saw you weeping, so I wept too. He said: "I remembered this saying of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic: 'This is upon your Lord a decree that must be fulfilled.' [Surah Maryam: 71] So I do not know whether we will be saved from it (the Fire) or not." 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 Hudhayfah bin al-Yaman and Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty will gather the people, and when Paradise is brought near (to the God-fearing), the believers will stand up. They will come to Sayyiduna Adam (peace be upon him) and say: 'O our father! Ask for the gate of Paradise to be opened for us.' He will say: 'Was it not the sin of your father that expelled you from Paradise? I am not fit for this position. Go to Sayyiduna Ibrahim (peace be upon him), the Khalil (intimate friend) of Allah.' Sayyiduna Ibrahim (peace be upon him) will say: 'I am not fit for it; I was only a Khalil from afar, in all humility. Go to Allah's Prophet, Sayyiduna Musa (peace be upon him), to whom Allah spoke directly.' They will come to Sayyiduna Musa (peace be upon him) and he will say: 'I am not fit for it. Go to the Word of Allah and His Spirit, Sayyiduna Isa (peace be upon him).' Sayyiduna Isa (peace be upon him) will say: 'I am not fit for it.' Then they will come to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) will stand (at the station of intercession) and permission will be granted to him. Trustworthiness (al-amanah) and the ties of kinship (al-rahim) will be sent with him (peace and blessings be upon him), and they will stand on the right and left sides of the Sirat. Then the first group of you will pass like the flash of lightning." (The narrator said:) I said: May my father and mother be ransomed for you! What is meant by passing like the flash of lightning? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Have you not seen lightning, how it passes and returns in the blink of an eye? Then (others will pass) like the passing of the wind, then like the flight of a bird, and like the running of swift men; their deeds will carry them along. And your Prophet will be standing on the Sirat supplicating: 'Rabbi sallim sallim' (O my Lord, keep them safe, keep them safe). Until the deeds of the people fall short, until a man will come who will not be able to pass except by crawling. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: On both edges of the Sirat there will be hanging hooks that are commanded to seize those whom they have been ordered to seize. So some will be scratched but saved, and some will be thrown headlong into Hell." By the One in whose Hand is the soul of Abu Hurayrah! The depth of Hell is a distance of seventy years. 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 Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection a man will meet his father and say to him: 'O my father! What kind of son was I to you?' He will say: 'The best of sons.' The son will say: 'Will you obey me today?' He will say: 'Yes.' The son will say: 'Hold on to my waist-wrapper.' So he will hold on to his waist-wrapper. Then he will proceed until he comes before Allah Almighty while He is reviewing the creation. Allah Almighty will say: 'O My servant! Enter Paradise by whichever of its gates you wish.' He will say: 'O my Lord! Will my father also (enter) with me? For You promised me that You would not disgrace me.' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then Allah Almighty will turn away from him. Then He will say: 'O My servant! Enter Paradise by whichever of its gates you wish.' He will say: 'O my Lord! Will my father also be with me? For You promised me that You would not disgrace me.' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then Allah Almighty will again turn away from him. Then He will say: 'O My servant! Enter Paradise by whichever of its gates you wish.' He will again say: 'O my Lord! And my father too with me? For You promised me that You would not disgrace me.' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then Allah Almighty will transform his father into a hyena (a kind of animal), and he will fall into Hell and be seized by his nose. Then Allah Almighty will say: 'O My servant! Is this your father?' He will say: 'No, by Your Might!'" This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty will gather the people on the Day of Resurrection, and a caller will call out: 'O people! Are you not pleased with your Lord, who created you, fashioned you and provided for you, that He should hand every person over to whatever he used to worship and hold devotion to in the world? Is this not justice from your Lord?' They will say: 'Certainly!' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So every one of you will go to whatever he held devotion to in the world, and the forms of the things they used to worship in the world will be made to appear before them. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: For whoever worshipped Sayyiduna Isa in the world, the form of the devil of Isa will be made to appear; for whoever worshipped Uzayr, the form of the devil of Uzayr will be made to appear; until even the forms of trees, wood and stones will be presented before them. And the people of Islam will remain, fallen on their knees. Allah Almighty will say to them: 'What is the matter with you? Why have you not gone as the rest of the people have gone?' They will say: 'Indeed, we have a Lord whom we have not yet seen.' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then Allah Almighty will ask: 'If you see your Lord, how will you recognise Him?' They will say: 'Between us and Him there is a sign; if we see it, we will recognise Him.' Allah Almighty will ask: 'What is that sign?' Then the Shin will be uncovered. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then everyone whose back (used to bow in prostration in the world) will fall down prostrating, and some people will remain whose backs will be (rigid) like the horns of cattle; they will want to prostrate but will not be able to. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then they will be commanded and they will raise their heads, and they will be given light according to their deeds. Some of them will be given light like a mountain in front of them, some will be given less light than that, some will be given light like a date-palm in their right hand, and some will be given even less than that, until the last of them will be the one who is given light on the big toe of his foot, which will shine at one moment and go out at another; when it shines he will step forward, and when it goes out he will stand still. Then they will pass over the Sirat, and the Sirat is sharp like the edge of a sword, a slippery place. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It will be said: 'Be saved (cross over) according to your light.' So some of them will pass like a shooting star, some will pass like the wind, some like the swift running of a man, and some will pass jogging. They will pass according to their deeds, until the one whose light is on the big toe of his foot will pass: one of his hands will slip while the other clings, one of his feet will slip while the other clings, and the Fire will touch his sides. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then they will be saved (in this way), and when they are saved they will say: 'All praise is for Allah, who saved us from you after we had seen you. Indeed, Allah has given us what He has not given anyone else.' Then they will go to a shallow pool of water near the gate of Paradise and bathe in it, and the fragrance and the complexion of the people of Paradise will return to them. They will look through the gaps of the gate of Paradise, while that gate is closed, and (see) a dwelling in the lowest level of Paradise. They will say: 'O our Lord! Grant us this dwelling.' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah Almighty will say to them: 'Are you asking Me for Paradise when I have only just saved you from the Fire?!' They will say: 'O our Lord! Grant it to us, and make this gate a barrier between us and the Fire so that we do not hear its sound.' Allah Almighty will say to them: 'If you are given this, perhaps you will begin asking Me for something else?' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: They will say: 'No, by Your Might! We will not ask You for anything besides it; and what dwelling could be better than this?' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So they will be given it. Then another dwelling will be raised up before them beyond it, and on seeing it their first dwelling will seem to them like a dream. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: They will say: 'O our Lord! Grant us that dwelling.' Allah Almighty will say to them: 'If you are given this, perhaps you will begin asking Me for something else?' They will say: 'No, by Your Might! We will not ask You for anything besides it; and what dwelling could be better than this?' Then they will fall silent. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It will be said to them: 'What is the matter with you? Why do you not ask?' They will say: 'O our Lord! We have asked so much that we now feel ashamed.' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then Allah Almighty will say to them: 'Are you not pleased that I give you the equal of the world from the day I created it until the day I annihilated it, and then ten times more than that?'" Masruq relates that when Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) reached this part of the hadith, he laughed. A man said to him: O Abu Abd al-Rahman! You have narrated this hadith many times, and whenever you reach this part you laugh? Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) narrate this hadith many times, and whenever he (peace and blessings be upon him) reached this part he would laugh so much that his throat and his last molar would become visible, because that person will say: "Are You mocking me while You are the King?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then the Lord, the Mighty and Majestic, will say: 'No, but I have full power to do that, so ask Me.'" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They will say: 'O our Lord! Join us with the people.' Allah Almighty will say to them: 'Join the people.'" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "So they will go running through Paradise, until a palace of a hollow pearl appears before one of them, and he will fall down in prostration. It will be said to him: 'Raise your head.' When he raises his head it will be said: 'This is only one of your palaces.' He will walk on and a man will come towards him, and he will ask: 'Are you a king or an angel?' He will be told: 'This is only one of your attendants, one of your slaves.' That man will come to him and say: 'I am only one of your attendants appointed over this palace; under me there are a thousand attendants, and they are all in the same position as I am.' Then he will go with him until he opens the gate of the palace, and it will be a hollow pearl whose roofs, doors, locks and keys are also from that same pearl. When the palace is opened for him, a green gem seventy cubits long, lined with red, will appear before him. It will have sixty doors, each door opening onto a gem whose colour differs from the other. In every gem there will be couches, wives and maidservants. He will enter it and come to a beautiful, wide-eyed houri wearing seventy garments; the marrow of her shin will be visible from behind those garments. Her liver will be his mirror and his liver will be her mirror. When he turns away from her for a moment, she will become seventy times more beautiful in his eyes than before, and he will say: 'You have become seventy times more beautiful in my eyes.' And she will say the same to him. He will cast his gaze over his kingdom, which will be the distance of a hundred years' journey." (On hearing this) Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Ka'b! Do you hear what Ibn Umm Abd (Abdullah bin Mas'ud) is telling us about what the person in the lowest level of Paradise will receive? Then what will be the state of those in the highest levels of Paradise? Ka'b said: O Commander of the Faithful! (For them is) what no eye has seen and no ear has heard. Indeed, Allah Almighty was above the Throne and the water, and He made for Himself a home with His Hand, then adorned it with whatever He willed, and placed fruits and drinks in it. Then He closed it, and from the day He created it until now none of His creation has seen it, neither Jibril nor any other angel. Then Ka'b recited this verse: "No soul knows what delight of the eyes has been hidden for them." [Surah al-Sajdah: 17] And below that He made two more Gardens, adorned them with whatever He willed, placed in them the silk, fine silk (sundus) and brocade (istabraq) that have been mentioned, and showed them to whomever He willed of His creation and the angels. So whoever's record of deeds is in Illiyyin will be seen in that home. And when a man from the people of Illiyyin rides out in his kingdom, not a single tent of the tents of Paradise will remain without the light of his face entering it, so much so that they will smell his fragrance and say: 'Ah! What a fine fragrance!' And they will say: 'Today a man from the people of Illiyyin has looked down upon us.' On hearing this Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Woe to you, O Ka'b! These hearts have been given some slack; now tighten them a little (i.e. make them fear the Hereafter). Ka'b said: O Commander of the Faithful! Indeed, Hell will let out such a roar that no angel brought near and no prophet will remain without falling on his knees, so much so that even Ibrahim (peace be upon him), the Khalil of Allah, will say: "O my Lord! (Today my only concern is) myself, myself." And even if you had the deeds of seventy prophets in addition to your own deeds, you would still think that you will not be saved from it. All the narrators of this hadith are trustworthy (thiqah); however, those two (the two Shaykhs) did not record from Abu Khalid al-Dalani in the "Two Sahihs" because of what has been mentioned about his deviation from the Sunnah regarding the Companions. But the early Imams have all testified to Abu Khalid's truthfulness and precision. This hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs did not record it, and Abu Khalid al-Dalani is among those Imams of the people of Kufah whose hadith are collected.

It is narrated from Abdullah bin Qays; he said: I used to take cases (for judgment) to Abu Burdah. One day I was with him when Sayyiduna al-Harith bin Uqaysh (may Allah be pleased with him) came to him, and he had the honour of companionship (with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)). That night he narrated this hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are no two Muslims whose four children die, except that Allah, out of the bounty of His mercy, will admit them both into Paradise." We said: O Messenger of Allah! And if there are three? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Even if there are three." We said: O Messenger of Allah! And if there are two? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Even if there are two." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, among my Ummah there will be someone (disobedient) who will be made so large for Hell that he will become one of its corners; and indeed, among my Ummah there will also be a man through whose intercession more people than (the tribe of) Mudar will enter Paradise." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.