It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Those people of Hell who are to remain in Hell, they will neither die there nor live. And Allah Almighty, for those among the people of Hell whom He wishes to have mercy upon, will cause them to die in Hell. Then the intercessors will come to them, and their helpers will take them and cast them into the River of Life, or the River of Living, or the River of Life, or the River of Paradise, and in it they will grow just as a seed grows in the scum of a flood. Have you not seen that trees are green and then turn yellow, or they are yellow and then turn green? Upon hearing this, the companions said to one another: It seems as if the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to live in the countryside.