Volume 8, Book 76, Number 567:
Narrated An-Nu’man bin Bashir:
I heard the Prophet saying, “The least punished person of the (Hell) Fire people on the Day of Re –
surrection will be a man under whose arch of the feet two smoldering embers will be placed, be –
cause of which his brain will boil just like Al-Mirjal (copper vessel) or a Qum-qum (narrow-necked
vessel) is boiling with water.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 568:
Narrated ‘Adi bin Hatim:
The Prophet mentioned the Fire and turned his face aside and asked for Allah’s protection from it,
and then again he mentioned the Fire and turned his face aside and asked for Allah’s protection from
it and said, “Protect yourselves from the Hell-Fire, even if with one half of a date, and he who cannot
afford that, then (let him do so) by (saying) a good, pleasant word.”
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 555:
Narrated Usama:
The Prophet said, “I stood at the gate of Paradise and saw that the majority of the people who had
entered it were poor people, while the rich were forbidden (to enter along with the poor, because
they were waiting the reckoning of their accounts), but the people of the Fire had been ordered to be
driven to the Fire. And I stood at the gate of the Fire and found that the majority of the people enter –
ing it were women.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 556:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
Allah’s Apostle said, “When the people of Paradise have entered Paradise and the people of the Fire
have entered the Fire, death will be brought and will be placed between the Fire and Paradise, and
then it will be slaughtered, and a call will be made (that), ‘O people of Paradise, no more death ! O
people of the Fire, no more death ! ‘ So the people of Paradise will have happiness added to their pre –
vious happiness, and the people of the Fire will have sorrow added to their previous sorrow.”
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.”