It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Nafi' bin al-Azraq asked him about these sayings of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic: "This is a Day on which they will not speak" [Surah al-Mursalat: 35] , "and you will hear nothing but a whisper" [Surah Ta Ha: 108] , "and they will turn to one another, questioning each other" [Surah al-Saffat: 27] , and "Here, read my record" [Surah al-Haqqah: 19] ; so what is the reality of all these? He said: Woe to you, have you asked anyone other than me about this before? He said: No. He said: Beware! Had you asked (someone without knowledge), you might have been ruined. Has not Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, said: "And indeed, a day with your Lord is like a thousand years of those which you count" [Surah al-Hajj: 47] ? He said: Yes. So he said: (The Day of Resurrection is very long, and) in each measure of these days there will be different states and different shades. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.