It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "All the prophets will have pulpits of gold." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They will sit on them, but my pulpit will remain (empty); I will not sit on it (or he said: I will not be seated on it). Rather, I will remain standing before my Lord, fearing that Allah might send me to Paradise while my Ummah remains behind me. So I will say: O my Lord! My Ummah, my Ummah! Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will say: O Muhammad! What do you want Me to do with your Ummah? I will say: O Lord! Hasten their reckoning. So they will be called and their reckoning will take place. Some of them will enter Paradise by the mercy of Allah, and some by my intercession. I will continue interceding until I am even given the (release) documents for people who have already been sent to Hell. At that time Malik, the keeper of Hell, will say: O Muhammad! You have not left anyone of your Ummah in Hell for the wrath of your Lord." The chain of this hadith is sahih, except that the two Shaykhs did not use Muhammad bin Thabit al-Bunani as evidence; his narrations are few, but they are collected. This hadith is gharib among the reports on intercession, and the two of them (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.