Volume 8, Book 76, Number 569:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
I heard Allah’s Apostles when his uncle, Abu Talib had been mentioned in his presence, saying,
“May be my intercession will help him (Abu Talib) on the Day of Resurrection so that he may be put
in a shallow place in the Fire, with fire reaching his ankles and causing his brain to boil.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 570:
Narrated Anas:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Allah will gather all the people on the Day of Resurrection and they will say,
‘Let us request someone to intercede for us with our Lord so that He may relieve us from this place of
ours.’ Then they will go to Adam and say, ‘You are the one whom Allah created with His Own Hands,
and breathed in you of His soul, and ordered the angels to prostrate to you; so please intercede for us
with our Lord.’ Adam will reply, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking, and will remember his sin, and
will say, ‘Go to Noah, the first Apostle sent by Allah’ They will go to him and he will say, ‘I am not fit
for this undertaking’, and will remember his sin and say, ‘Go to Abraham whom Allah took as a
Khalil. They will go to him (and request similarly). He will reply, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking,’
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and will remember his sin and say, ‘Go to Moses to whom Allah spoke directly.’ They will go to Moses
and he will say, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking,’ and will remember his sin and say, ‘Go to Jesus.’
They will go to him, and he will say, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking, go to Muhammad as Allah has
forgiven his past and future sins.’ They will come to me and I will ask my Lord’s permission, and
when I see Him, I will fall down in prostration to Him, and He will leave me in that state as long as
(He) Allah will, and then I will be addressed. ‘Raise up your head (O Muhammad)! Ask, and your re –
quest will be granted, and say, and your saying will be listened to; intercede, and your intercession
will be accepted.’ Then I will raise my head, and I will glorify and praise my Lord with a saying(i.e.
invocation) He will teach me, and then I will intercede, Allah will fix a limit for me (i.e., certain type
of people for whom I may intercede), and I will take them out of the (Hell) Fire and let them enter
Paradise. Then I will come back (to Allah) and fall in prostration, and will do the same for the third
and fourth times till no-one remains in the (Hell) Fire except those whom the Qur’an has imprisoned
therein.” (The sub-narrator, Qatada used to say at that point, “…those upon whom eternity (in Hell)
has been imposed.”) (See Hadith No. 3, Vol 6).
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 571:
Narrated ‘Imran bin Husain:
The Prophet said, “Some people will be taken out of the Fire through the intercession of
Muhammad they will enter Paradise and will be called Al-Jahannamiyin (the Hell Fire people).”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 572:
Narrated Anas:
Um (the mother of) Haritha came to Allah’s Apostle after Haritha had been martyred on the Day
(of the battle) of Badr by an arrow thrown by an unknown person. She said, “O Allah’s Apostle! You
know the position of Haritha in my heart (i.e. how dear to me he was), so if he is in Paradise, I will
not weep for him, or otherwise, you will see what I will do.” The Prophet said, “Are you mad? Is there
only one Paradise? There are many Paradises, and he is in the highest Paradise of Firdaus.” The
Prophet added, “A forenoon journey or an after noon journey in Allah’s Cause is better than the
whole world and whatever is in it; and a place equal to an arrow bow of anyone of you, or a place
equal to a foot in Paradise is better than the whole world and whatever is in it; and if one of the wo –
men of Paradise looked at the earth, she would fill the whole space between them (the earth and the
heaven) with light, and would fill whatever is in between them, with perfume, and the veil of her
face is better than the whole world and whatever is in it.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 557:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Allah will say to the people of Paradise, ‘O the people of Paradise!’ They will
say, ‘Labbaik, O our Lord, and Sa’daik!’ Allah will say, ‘Are you pleased?” They will say, ‘Why should
we not be pleased since You have given us what You have not given to anyone of Your creation?’ Al –
lah will say, ‘I will give you something better than that.’ They will reply, ‘O our Lord! And what is
better than that?’ Allah will say, ‘I will bestow My pleasure and contentment upon you so that I will
never be angry with you after for-ever.’ “
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 558:
Narrated Anas:
Haritha was martyred on the day (of the battle) of Badr while he was young. His mother came to
the Prophet saying, “O Allah’s Apostle! You know the relation of Haritha to me (how fond of him I
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was); so, if he is in Paradise, I will remain patient and wish for Allah’s reward, but if he is not there,
then you will see what I will do.” The Prophet replied, “May Allah be merciful upon you! Have you
gone mad? (Do you think) it is one Paradise? There are many Paradises and he is in the (most superi –
or) Paradise of Al-Firdaus.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 559:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “The width between the two shoulders of a Kafir (disbeliever) will be equal to the
distance covered by a fast rider in three days.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 559t:
Narrated Sahl bin Sa’d:
Allah’s Apostle said, “In Paradise there is a tree so big that in its shade a rider may travel for one
hundred years without being able to cross it.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 559e:
Narrated Abu Sa’id:
The Prophet said: There is a tree in Paradise (so huge) that a fast (or a trained) rider may travel: for
one hundred years without being able to cross it.
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 560:
Narrated Sahl bin Sa’d:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Seventy thousand or seven hundred thousand of my followers will enter
Paradise. (Abu Hazim, the sub-narrator, is not sure as to which of the two numbers is correct.) And
they will be holding on to one another, and the first of them will not enter till the last of them has
entered, and their faces will be like the moon on a full moon night.”