Sahih Muslim Hadith 7222

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[7222] 76 – (2873) It was narrated that Anas bin Mâlik said: "We were with 'Umar between LI :ii Makkah and A]-Madinah, and we looked for the crescent of the new moon. I was a man with keen eyesight, and I saw it, but no one else said that he had seen it. I said to 'Umar: 'Don't you see it?' But he did not see it. 'Umar said: 'I will see it when I am lying on my bed.' "Then he started to tell us about the people of Badr. And he said: 'The Messenger of Allah showed us, one day before, where the people of Badr (the Mushrikân) would fall. He said: 5 5 "This is the place where so-and- JA_ so will fall tomorrow, if Allah wills." 'Umar said: 'By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, they did not miss the places that the had i.i J_qA, L Messenger of Allah pointed out. They were put in a JU :JU .uL3L.33AiE well on top of one another, then Paradise: Description, Delights etc. 266 4L&3 la £á.a, 2I the Messenger of Allah went to them and said: "0 so-and-so son of so-and-so, and 0 so-and- so son of so-and-so, have you found what Allah and His Messenger promised to be true? For I have found what my Lord promised me to be true." "Umar said: '0 Messenger of Allah, how can you speak to bodies in which there are no souls?' He said: 'You do not hear what I am saying more clearly than they do, but they cannot give me any reply."