Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 18351

Sayyiduna Laqit bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that he came as a delegate to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and with him was a companion of his named Nahik bin Asim bin Malik bin al-Muntafiq. Sayyiduna Laqit (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: My companion and I set out until we came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when the month of Rajab had passed. We came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when, having finished the morning prayer, he stood among the people to deliver a sermon. He said: "O people, for the past four days I have kept my voice reserved for you so that I may make you hear. Is there any man whom his people have sent, and whose people have said to him: 'Find out for us what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) says'? (The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:) Beware! It may be that a person has been distracted by being lost in his own thoughts, or by talking with his companion, or by things that lead astray. Beware! I will be asked whether I conveyed the message. Beware! Listen and you will live. Beware! Sit down. Beware! Sit down." So the people sat down. My companion and I stood up and remained standing until the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) turned his full attention towards us. I said: "O Messenger of Allah, do you not have knowledge of the unseen?" The narrator says: By Allah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) laughed and shook his head, and he realised that I wanted to find a slip in him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Regarding the unseen, your Lord has kept five things to His own majesty; none knows them except Allah Almighty." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gestured with his blessed hand. I asked: "What are they?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Knowledge of death (that is, knowledge of who will die and when): He knows about the death of each one of you, and you do not know about it. Knowledge of the sperm when it is in the womb: the Lord knows about it and you do not know about it. Knowledge of what will happen tomorrow: what you will eat tomorrow, you do not know it. And knowledge of the day the rain will come down: He looks upon you while you are in hardship and anxious, and He begins to laugh, because He knows that your situation will soon change." Sayyiduna Laqit (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "We will not be deprived of good from a Lord who laughs." (The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:) "And knowledge of the Day of the Hour." The narrator says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, teach us some of what you teach the people, for we are a people whose words are not believed by anyone of the tribe of Madhhij, the tribe that dominates us, nor by the people of the tribe of Khath'am, who are our allies, nor by the people of our own tribe to whom we belong." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Some time will pass over you, then your Prophet will pass away. Then some time will pass over you, then a mighty cry (that is, the sound of the blowing of the Trumpet) will be sent. By your Lord, that cry will destroy everything on the face of the earth, and the angels who are with your Lord. Your Lord will go around the earth, and all the lands will be empty for Him. Then your Lord will send down rain from the sky, which will come from near the Throne. By your Lord, as a result of that rain, whoever was killed anywhere and whoever was buried anywhere, all their graves will split open, and that rain will bring him back to life from the side of his head, and he (that is, every person) will sit upright. The Lord will say: 'How long was the state you were in?' The servant will say: 'O my Lord, from yesterday evening until today.' He will say this about his life, and he will think that he is talking with his family." The narrator says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, how will He bring us back to life after the winds, decay and wild beasts have torn us to pieces?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I will give you an example of that from among the blessings of Allah Almighty. You look at a piece of land that is barren and desolate, and you think that it will never flourish. Then your Lord sends rain from the sky, and after only a few days you look at the land and there is water on it. By your Lord, the One who can bring forth the plants of the earth by means of water also has the power to create you by means of water. You will come out of your graves and out of the places where you were struck down, and you will see Allah Almighty and He will see you." The narrator says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, how can it be that we, who will fill the whole earth, and the Lord, who is a single Being, will look at Him and He will look at us?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I will give you an example of this from among the blessings of Allah Almighty. The sun and the moon are a small sign from Allah Almighty; in one and the same moment you see them both and they both see you, and you face no obstruction in seeing them. By your God, He has more power to see you and for you to see Him than they have for you to see them and for them to see you, while you face no obstruction in seeing them." The narrator says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, when we present ourselves before our Lord, what will the Lord do with us?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You will be presented before Him with your records of deeds open, and nothing concerning you will be hidden from Him. Your Lord will take water in a handful and sprinkle it towards you. By your Lord, a drop of it will fall on the face of every one of you. As for the Muslim, that drop will make his face like a white sheet; as for the disbeliever, that drop will strike his nose and make him like black coal. Beware! Then your Prophet will come, and the righteous people will come behind him, and they will go walking over a bridge made of fire. One of you steps on an ember and says 'Ouch!', and at that time your Lord will say: 'This is its (that is, the reckoning's or the punishment's) appointed time.'" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then you will come to the Pool of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); you will come in a state of thirst, and whoever drinks water from it, by Allah, will never feel thirst. By your Lord, whoever of you stretches out his hand, a cup will come into his hand, and it (that is, drinking from the Pool of Kawthar) will purify a person from excrement, urine and filth. The sun and the moon will be held back, and you will not see either of them." The narrator says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, then how will we be able to see (without light)?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Just as you can see at the time before the sun rises, when the earth and the mountains have become lit up." I said: "O Messenger of Allah, what recompense will we be given for our bad deeds and our good deeds?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The recompense of a good deed will be tenfold, and the recompense of a bad deed will be its like (that is, onefold), unless Allah Almighty pardons that too (then it is up to His will)." The narrator says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, will it be either Paradise or Hell?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes. By your Lord, Hell has seven gates, and between every two of its gates there is such a distance that a rider could cover that distance only by travelling for seventy years." The narrator says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, when we go into Paradise, what will we find?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Rivers of pure honey, rivers of drink from which there will be neither stomach-ache nor regret, rivers of milk whose taste has not changed, water that has not become foul, and fruits about which, by your Lord, you have no knowledge, and along with it further good things, and pure spouses." The narrator says: I said: "Will we be given them in Paradise? Or will they be women who set things right (that is, who do household work)?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Righteous women will be given to righteous men. You will take pleasure in those women just as you take pleasure in the world, and they will take pleasure in you, except that there will be no bearing of children." Sayyiduna Laqit (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is the farthest thing that we will reach and at which there will be an end?" But the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him no answer. The narrator says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, on what shall I pledge allegiance to you?" The narrator says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stretched out his blessed hand and said: "On establishing the prayer, giving zakah, keeping apart from the polytheists, and on the condition that you will not associate anyone else with Allah Almighty by taking him as a deity." The narrator says: I said: "Will we have whatever lies between the East and the West?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) drew back his hand and spread his fingers, thinking that I might lay down a condition he would not accept. I said: "We will settle in it (between the East and the West) wherever we wish, and every person will bear the penalty of his own deed (that is, the penalty for one person's crime will not be imposed on another)." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stretched out his blessed hand and said: "You have that: you may live wherever you wish, and you will only have to bear the punishment for what you yourself have committed." The narrator says: As we began to return from him, he said: "By your God, these people are the most God-fearing of all, among the former and the latter." Sayyiduna Ka'b bin al-Khudariyyah (may Allah be pleased with him), who was from Banu Ka'b bin Kilab, asked him: "O Messenger of Allah, who are they?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Banu al-Muntafiq, who are worthy of it." The narrator says: Then we came back and turned towards the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). I said: "O Messenger of Allah, for those who departed from the world in the Time of Ignorance, will there be any good for any one of them?" The narrator says: Then a man from Quraysh spoke up: "By Allah, your father al-Muntafiq will be in Hell." The narrator says: It was as if a fire had broken out between my skin, my face and my flesh because of what that man had said about my father in front of all the people. At first I intended to say: "O Messenger of Allah, what about your father?" But the other would have been the greater ignorance. I said: "O Messenger of Allah, what will become of your family (that is, those members of the family who died in the Time of Ignorance)?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My family too. By Allah, whenever you pass by the grave of any polytheist from Banu Amir or from Quraysh, say: 'Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) has sent me to you to inform you of something that will displease you: you will be dragged into Hell on your faces and on your bellies.'" The narrator says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, why will this be done to them, when those people used to do good and they thought that they were setting things right?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The reason for this is that Allah Almighty sent at the end of every seven nations (the narrator says: that is, sent a Prophet), so whoever disobeys his Prophet will be among those who go astray, and whoever obeys his Prophet will be among the rightly guided."
Abdullah recorded this narration, and Tabarani recorded something similar to it. Of Abdullah's two routes, one has a connected (muttasil) chain and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy), while the other chain and the chain of Tabarani are mursal, reported from Asim bin Laqit that Sayyiduna Laqit (may Allah be pleased with him) (had this incident).