Volume 4, Book 55, Number 556:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
We were in the company of the Prophet at a banquet and a cooked (mutton) forearm was set be –
fore him, and he used to like it. He ate a morsel of it and said, “I will be the chief of all the people on
the Day of Resurrection. Do you know how Allah will gather all the first and the last (people) in one
level place where an observer will be able to see (all) of them and they will be able to hear the an –
nouncer, and the sun will come near to them. Some People will say: Don’t you see, in what condition
you are and the state to which you have reached? Why don’t you look for a person who can inter –
cede for you with your Lord? Some people will say: Appeal to your father, Adam.’ They will go to him
and say: ‘O Adam! You are the father of all mankind, and Allah created you with His Own Hands,
and ordered the angels to prostrate for you, and made you live in Paradise. Will you not intercede for
us with your Lord? Don’t you see in what (miserable) state we are, and to what condition we have
reached?’ On that Adam will reply, ‘My Lord is so angry as He has never been before and will never
be in the future; (besides), He forbade me (to eat from) the tree, but I disobeyed (Him), (I am worried
about) myself! Myself! Go to somebody else; go to Noah.’ They will go to Noah and say; ‘O Noah! You
are the first amongst the messengers of Allah to the people of the earth, and Allah named you a
thankful slave. Don’t you see in what a (miserable) state we are and to what condition we have
reached? Will you not intercede for us with your Lord? Noah will reply: ‘Today my Lord has become
so angry as he had never been before and will never be in the future Myself! Myself! Go to the
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Prophet (Muhammad). The people will come to me, and I will prostrate myself underneath Allah’s
Throne. Then I will be addressed: ‘O Muhammad! Raise your head; intercede, for your intercession
will be accepted, and ask (for anything). for you will be given. “