The Forty Hadith Al-Qudsi: Hadith One (1) | Hadith Two (2) | Hadith Three (3) | Hadith Four (4) | Hadith Five (5) | Hadith Six (6) | Hadith Seven (7) | Hadith Eight (8) | Hadith Nine (9) | Hadith Ten (10) | Hadith Eleven (11) | Hadith Twelve (12) | Hadith Thirteen (13) | Hadith Fourteen (14) | Hadith Fifteen (15) | Hadith Sixteen (16) | Hadith Seventeen (17) | Hadith Eighteen (18) | Hadith Nineteen (19) | Hadith Twenty (20) | Hadith Twenty One (21) | Hadith Twenty Two (22) | Hadith Twenty Three (23) | Hadith Twenty Four (24) | Hadith Twenty Five (25) | Hadith Twenty Six (26) | Hadith Twenty Seven (27) | Hadith Twenty Eight (28) | Hadith Twenty Nine (29) | Hadith Thirty (30) | Hadith Thirty One (31) | Hadith Thirty Two (32) | Hadith Thirty Three (33) | Hadith Thirty Four (34) | Hadith Thirty Five (35) | Hadith Thirty Six (36) | Hadith Thirty Seven (37) | Hadith Thirty Eight (38) | Hadith Thirty Nine (39) | Hadith Forty (40) ||| Forty Hadith Nabawi Index |||

Hadith number in Sahih Muslim [Arabic only]: 272

‏حدثنا ‏ ‏عثمان بن أبي شيبة ‏ ‏وإسحق بن إبراهيم الحنظلي ‏ ‏كلاهما ‏ ‏عن ‏ ‏جرير ‏ ‏قال ‏ ‏عثمان ‏ ‏حدثنا ‏ ‏جرير ‏ ‏عن ‏ ‏منصور ‏ ‏عن ‏ ‏إبراهيم ‏ ‏عن ‏ ‏عبيدة ‏ ‏عن ‏ ‏عبد الله بن مسعود ‏ ‏قال ‏
‏قال رسول الله ‏ ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ ‏إني لأعلم آخر أهل النار خروجا منها وآخر أهل الجنة دخولا الجنة رجل يخرج من النار حبوا فيقول الله تبارك وتعالى له اذهب فادخل الجنة فيأتيها فيخيل إليه أنها ملأى فيرجع فيقول يا رب وجدتها ملأى فيقول الله تبارك وتعالى له اذهب فادخل الجنة قال فيأتيها فيخيل إليه أنها ملأى فيرجع فيقول يا رب وجدتها ملأى فيقول الله له اذهب فادخل الجنة فإن لك مثل الدنيا وعشرة أمثالها ‏ ‏أو إن لك عشرة أمثال الدنيا ‏ ‏قال فيقول أتسخر بي ‏ ‏أو أتضحك بي ‏ ‏وأنت الملك قال لقد رأيت رسول الله ‏ ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ ‏ضحك حتى بدت ‏ ‏نواجذه ‏ ‏قال فكان يقال ذاك أدنى أهل الجنة منزلة
 

Abu Sa'id, may Allah be pleased with him, reported:
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Allah, the High and Glorious, would say: O Adam! and he would say: At You service, at Your beck and call, O Lord, and the good is in Your Hand. Allah would say: Bring forth the group of (the denizens of) Fire. He (Adam) would ask: Who are the denizens of Hell? It would be said: They are out of every thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine. He (the Holy Prophet) said: It is at this juncture that every child would become white-haired  "and every pregnant one will drop her load, and you shall see mankind as in a drunken state, yet they will not be drunken, but severe will be the Torment of Allâh" He (the narrator) said: This had a very depressing effect upon them (upon the Companions of the Holy Prophet) and they asked: Messenger of Allah, who among us would be (that fortunate) person (who would be admitted to Paradise)? He said: Good tidings for you, Gog and Magog would be those thousands (who would be the denizens of Hell) and a person (selected for Paradise) would be among you. He (the narrator) further reported that he (Allah's Messenger) (may peace be upon him) again said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, I hope that you would constitute one-fourth of the inhabitants of Paradise. We extolled Allah and glorified (Him). He (the Holy Prophet) again said: By Him in whose Hand is my life, I wish you would constitute one-third of the inhabitants of Paradise. We extolled Allah and Glorified (Him). He (the Holy prophet) again said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, I hope that you would constitute half of the inhabitants of Paradise. Your likeness among the people is the likeness of a white hair on the skin of a black ox or a strip on the foreleg of an ass.