Volume 8, Book 76, Number 587:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “While I was sleeping, a group (of my followers were brought close to me), and
when I recognized them, a man (an angel) came out from amongst (us) me and them, he said (to
them), ‘Come along.’ I asked, ‘Where?’ He said, ‘To the (Hell) Fire, by Allah’ I asked, ‘what is wrong
with them’ He said, ‘They turned apostate as renegades after you left.’ Then behold! (Another) group
(of my followers) were brought close to me, and when I recognized them, a man (an angel) came out
from (me and them) he said (to them); Come along.’ I asked, “Where?’ He said, ‘To the (Hell) Fire, by
Allah.’ I asked, What is wrong with them?’ He said, ‘They turned apostate as renegades after you left.
So I did not see anyone of them escaping except a few who were like camels without a shepherd.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 588:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Between my house and my pulpit there is a garden from amongst the gardens
of Paradise, and my pulpit is over my Lake-Fount.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 589:
Narrated Jundab:
I heard the Prophet, saying, “I am your predecessor at the Lake-Fount. (Al-Kauthar) .
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 590:
Narrated ‘Uqba bin ‘Amir:
Once the Prophet went out and offered the funeral prayers for the martyrs of Uhud, and then
went to the pulpit and said, “I am a predecessor for you and I am a witness for you: and by Allah, I
am looking at my Fount just now, and the keys of the treasures of the earth (or the keys of the earth)
have been given to me: and by Allah, I am not afraid that you will worship others besides Allah after
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me, but I am afraid that you will strive and struggle against each other over these treasures of the
world.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 591:
Narrated Haritha bin Wahb:
I heard the Prophet mentioning the Lake-Fount (Al-Kauthar), saying, “(The width of the Lake-
Fount) is equal to the distance between Medina and Sana’ (capital of Yemen).” Haritha said that he
heard the Prophet saying that his Lake-Fount would be as large as the distance between Sana’ and
Medina. Al-Mustaurid said to Haritha, “Didn’t you hear him talking about the vessels?” He said, “No.”
Al-Mustaurid said, “The vessels are seen in it as (numberless as) the stars.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 592:
Narrated Asma ‘bint Abu Bakr:
The Prophet said, “I will be standing at the Lake-Fount so that I will see whom among you will
come to me; and some people will be taken away from me, and I will say, ‘O Lord, (they are) from me
and from my followers.’ Then it will be said, ‘Did you notice what they did after you? By Allah, they
kept on turning on their heels (turned as renegades).’ ” The sub-narrator, Ibn Abi Mulaika said, “O
Allah, we seek refuge with You from turning on our heels, or being put to trial in our religion.”
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Book 77: Divine Will (Al-Qadar)
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 593:
Narrated ‘Abdullah:
Allah’s Apostle, the truthful and truly-inspired, said, “Each one of you collected in the womb of his
mother for forty days, and then turns into a clot for an equal period (of forty days) and turns into a
piece of flesh for a similar period (of forty days) and then Allah sends an angel and orders him to
write four things, i.e., his provision, his age, and whether he will be of the wretched or the blessed (in
the Hereafter). Then the soul is breathed into him. And by Allah, a person among you (or a man) may
do deeds of the people of the Fire till there is only a cubit or an arm-breadth distance between him
and the Fire, but then that writing (which Allah has ordered the angel to write) precedes, and he
does the deeds of the people of Paradise and enters it; and a man may do the deeds of the people of
Paradise till there is only a cubit or two between him and Paradise, and then that writing precedes
and he does the deeds of the people of the Fire and enters it.”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 594:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, “Allah puts an angel in charge of the uterus and the angel says, ‘O Lord, (it is) se –
men! O Lord, (it is now ) a clot! O Lord, (it is now) a piece of flesh.’ And then, if Allah wishes to com –
plete its creation, the angel asks, ‘O Lord, (will it be) a male or a female? A wretched (an evil doer) or
a blessed (doer of good)? How much will his provisions be? What will his age be?’ So all that is writ –
ten while the creature is still in the mother’s womb.”