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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. |