Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Once the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not come out to us for a long time, until, when we thought that he (peace and blessings be upon him) would not come out now, he (peace and blessings be upon him) came out and he (peace and blessings be upon him) prostrated, until we thought that perhaps his soul had been taken in that prostration. When he (peace and blessings be upon him) raised his head, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"My Lord consulted me about my Ummah: what should I do with them? I submitted: O my Lord, do whatever You will; they are Your creation and Your servants. The Lord consulted me a second time, and I submitted the same thing. The Lord said: O Muhammad, We will not grieve you concerning your Ummah."
(The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:) "The Lord informed me: The first of my Ummah to enter Paradise will be seventy thousand people, and with every thousand of them there will be another seventy thousand, and no reckoning will be taken from them."
Then He (the Lord) sent a message to me and said:
"Supplicate, and it will be answered; ask, and you will be given. So I said to His messenger: Will my Lord give me whatever I ask? The messenger said: He has sent me to you only so that He may give you that (that is, whatever you ask). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I do not say this as a boast: my Lord has granted me this: that He has forgiven my past and future sins, and now I walk about alive and sound; He granted me that my Ummah will not suffer famine and will not be overcome; and He granted me al-Kawthar, which is a river of Paradise that flows into my Pond.
And He granted me might, help and awe, which will go before my Ummah for the distance of a month; and He granted me that I will be the first of the Prophets to enter Paradise; and He made the spoils of war pure (that is, lawful) for me and for my Ummah; and He made lawful for us many things regarding which He had been strict with those before us; and He did not impose any hardship upon us."
Ahmad recorded it, and its chain is hasan (good).
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب المناقب / 16711
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ حسن۔
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه احمد فى المسند (393/5) ، أخرجه مسند أحمد برقم: 22825»