Fath al-Rabbani

Abdullah bin Buraidah narrates that Ubaidullah bin Ziyad had doubts about the Hawd al-Kawthar. Among his companions, a person named Abu Sabrah said to him: When your father went to Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) as part of a delegation, I was also with him. I met Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him), and he narrated a hadith to me directly, which he had heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He dictated it to me, and I wrote it down. Ubaidullah said: I swear by Allah, I ask you to ride this mule so fast that it sweats, and in this way, bring that writing to me. Abu Sabrah says: I mounted the mule and spurred it on until it sweated profusely, and I brought that writing back to him. It was written in it that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah Almighty greatly dislikes obscene speech and deliberately obscene talk. By the One in whose hand is the life of Muhammad! The Hour will not be established until it happens that the trustworthy will be considered treacherous and the treacherous will be considered trustworthy, obscene speech and deliberate obscenity will become widespread, and severing of ties and mistreatment of neighbors will also become common. By the One in whose hand is the life of Muhammad! The example of a believer is like a piece of gold: if its owner blows on it, it neither changes nor decreases in value. By the One in whose hand is the life of Muhammad! The example of a believer is like that of a honeybee: it eats what is pure and produces what is pure; wherever it sits, it neither breaks anything nor spoils it. Then he said: Beware! In the Hereafter, I will have a Hawd (cistern), the distance between its two banks will be as much as the distance between Aylah and Makkah, or between Sana'a and Madinah, and the number of drinking vessels there will be more than the stars. The water of the Hawd will be whiter than milk and sweeter than honey; whoever drinks from it once will never feel thirst again. Abu Sabrah says: Ubaidullah bin Ziyad took that writing, and I became anxious. After that, I met Yahya bin Ya'mar and expressed this matter to him. He said: By Allah, I remember this hadith even more than a Qur'anic surah. Then he narrated the hadith to me exactly as it was written in that book.