It is reported by Abu Sa'id that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: The (permanent) inhabitants of the Fire are those who are doomed to it, and verily they would neither die nor live in it (al-Qur'an, xx. 47; lxxxvii. 13). But the people whom the Fire would afflict (temporarily) on account of their sins, or so said (the narrator)" on account of their misdeeds," He would cause them to die till they would be turned into charcoal. Then they would be granted intercession and would be brought in groups and would be spread on the rivers of Paradise and then it would be said: O inhabitants of Paradise, pour water over them; then they would sprout forth like the sprouting of seed in the silt carried by flood. A man among the people said: (It appears) as if the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) lived in the steppe.

Abu Nadra narrated it from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri who reported it from the Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) a similar (hadith) up to the words:" in the mud of the flood," and he did not mention (the words narrated) after it.