سنن ابن ماجه
Ibn Majah
كتاب الزهدChapters on Zuhd
بَابُ : صِفَةِ النَّارِChapter: Description of Hell
Hadith 4318
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ , حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي , وَيَعْلَى , قَالَا , حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيل بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ , عَنْ نُفَيْعٍ أَبِي دَاوُدَ , عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ , قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " إِنَّ نَارَكُمْ هَذِهِ جُزْءٌ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ جُزْءًا مِنْ نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ , وَلَوْلَا أَنَّهَا أُطْفِئَتْ بِالْمَاءِ مَرَّتَيْنِ مَا انْتَفَعْتُمْ بِهَا , وَإِنَّهَا لَتَدْعُو اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ لَا يُعِيدَهَا فِيهَا " .
´It was narrated from Anas bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:` “This fire of yours is one-seventieth part of the fire of Hell. Were it not that its heat has been reduced by water twice, you would not have been able to benefit from it. And it is praying to Allah, asking Allah not to return it (to its original level of heat).”
Explanation & Benefits
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefits and Issues:
➊
The number seventy (sitr/ستر) in the Arabic language is also used to denote abundance.
That is, the fire of Hell is incomparably hotter than the fire of this world, and it is also possible to take the literal meaning, i.e., its heat is seventy times that of this heat.
➋
One should remember the fire of Hell when seeing the fire of this world,
so that it becomes possible to avoid sins.
➌
Our esteemed researcher has declared the mentioned narration weak in its chain of transmission, stating that the narration of al-Bukhari and Muslim suffices in this regard.
Whereas the correct and preferred view regarding this is as follows:
The mentioned narration is not completely authentic.
Rather, its first part—“This fire of yours is one part out of the seventy parts of the fire of Hell”—is authentic based on corroborating evidence, while the second part is weak because there is no authentic corroborating narration for it.
As other researchers have also indicated in this direction.
For details, see: (al-Da‘ifa:
No. 3208)
➊
The number seventy (sitr/ستر) in the Arabic language is also used to denote abundance.
That is, the fire of Hell is incomparably hotter than the fire of this world, and it is also possible to take the literal meaning, i.e., its heat is seventy times that of this heat.
➋
One should remember the fire of Hell when seeing the fire of this world,
so that it becomes possible to avoid sins.
➌
Our esteemed researcher has declared the mentioned narration weak in its chain of transmission, stating that the narration of al-Bukhari and Muslim suffices in this regard.
Whereas the correct and preferred view regarding this is as follows:
The mentioned narration is not completely authentic.
Rather, its first part—“This fire of yours is one part out of the seventy parts of the fire of Hell”—is authentic based on corroborating evidence, while the second part is weak because there is no authentic corroborating narration for it.
As other researchers have also indicated in this direction.
For details, see: (al-Da‘ifa:
No. 3208)
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 4318
