Reports on retribution

(Allamah Haythami says:) I say: Before this, the hadith narrated by Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Unays (may Allah be pleased with him) has passed, that he heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "On the Day of Resurrection, Allah Almighty will raise the servants (the narrator is unsure, or perhaps the words are:) the people naked, uncircumcised and 'buhm'." We asked: "What is meant by 'buhm'?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That they will have nothing with them. Then a caller (that is, the Lord) will address them in a loud voice, which those far away will hear just as those near will hear (He will say): 'I am al-Dayyan (that is, the One who judges or recompenses); I am the King. It is not fitting for any of the people of Hell to enter Hell while he has a right owed to him by one of the people of Paradise, until I have him given his due; and it is not fitting for any of the people of Paradise to enter Paradise while one of the people of Hell has a right owed by him, until I have him give it, even for a slap (I will have it requited).'" The narrator says: We said: "When we are naked, uncircumcised and have nothing at all with us (then how will recompense be made?)" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Through good deeds and bad deeds (recompense will be made)."
Imam Ahmad recorded it, and Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, with a hasan (good) chain.

Sayyidah Aishah Siddiqah (may Allah be pleased with her) and one Companion narrate from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "A man from among the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sat before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: 'O Messenger of Allah! I have some slaves who lie to me, betray me and disobey me, and I beat them and abuse them. O Messenger of Allah! So how will this conduct of mine towards them be counted?' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: 'The betrayal they commit against you, the disobedience they show you, the lies they tell you, (this conduct of theirs) and your punishing them (both of these will be weighed). If your punishment of them was less than their offence, that will be an extra in your favour; if your punishment of them matches their offence, then the matter will be equal, with nothing in your favour and nothing held against you; and if your punishment of them exceeds their offence, then retribution will be taken from you for whatever is in excess on your part.'" The narrator says: That man began to weep sitting before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What is the matter with you? Have you not read in the Book of Allah: 'And We shall set up the scales of justice for the Day of Resurrection, so no soul will be wronged in the least; and even if it is the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it forth, and sufficient are We as reckoners.'" That man said: "O Messenger of Allah! I find nothing better for me than parting from them; I make you my witness that they are all free." (Allamah Haythami says:) I say: Imam al-Tirmidhi recorded the hadith of Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her).
Imam Ahmad recorded it; in its chain the Companion is not named, and in this chain there is another narrator who is also not named; the rest of the narrators of both are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him) says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was sitting while two goats were grazing. One of them butted the other and made it miscarry, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) laughed. It was said: "O Messenger of Allah! Why do you laugh?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I am amazed at it. By the One in whose Hand is my soul, it will be given retribution on the Day of Resurrection."

In one narration it is mentioned: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw two goats butting each other and said: 'O Abu Dharr! Do you know about this, why these two are butting each other?' Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: 'No.' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'But Allah Almighty knows it, and He will soon judge between them.'" Imam Ahmad recorded all of these narrations; Imam al-Bazzar recorded the first narration, and Imam al-Tabarani recorded a similar narration in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains Layth bin Abi Sulaym, who is a mudallis; the rest of Imam Ahmad's narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except his teacher Ibn Aishah, who is thiqah (trustworthy). The narrators of the second narration are the narrators of the Sahih, and its chain contains a narrator who is not named.

Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "On the Day of Resurrection, the hornless goat will be given retribution from the horned goat."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, and Imam al-Bazzar and Abdullah bin Ahmad recorded it. Its chain contains al-Hajjaj bin Nusayr, who has been declared trustworthy despite his weakness; the rest of al-Bazzar's narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except al-Awwam bin Muzahim, who is thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Creatures will be given retribution from one another, even the hornless goat from the horned goat, and one ant from another ant."
Imam Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: The truthful and the one confirmed as truthful, Abu al-Qasim (peace and blessings be upon him), told me: "Indeed, the first two disputants to be judged between on the Day of Resurrection will be two goats, one with horns and one without horns."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Jabir bin Yazid al-Ju'fi, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abi Awfa (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection, the justice of Allah Almighty will reach so far that the hornless goat will be given retribution from the horned one."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains narrators whom I do not know, and Ata bin al-Sa'ib, who suffered from confusion (ikhtilat).

Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her), the wife of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was in my house, and there was a tooth-stick (miswak) in his blessed hand. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called his slave girl (the narrator is unsure, or perhaps the words are:) the slave girl of Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) (she did not come), and signs of anger became apparent on the blessed face of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) got up and went into the rooms, and found the slave girl playing with a young lamb. Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "You are here playing with a young lamb while the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is calling you?" The slave girl said: "By the One who sent you with the truth, I did not hear your voice." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Were it not for fear of retaliation, I would have struck you with this tooth-stick."

In one narration the wording is: "Were it not for retaliation (qisas), I would have struck you with this tooth-stick."

In one narration the wording is: "Were it not for fear of retaliation (qisas), I would have hurt you with this whip." Imam Abu Ya'la recorded all of these narrations, and Imam al-Tabarani recorded something similar, but he recorded these words: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called his slave girl," without any doubt, and he recorded these words: "Were it not for fear of retaliation on the Day of Resurrection." The chain of the narration recorded by Imam Abu Ya'la and al-Tabarani is jayyid (good).

Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever strikes his slave, on the Day of Resurrection that slave will be given retribution from him."
Imam al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever strikes a single lash unjustly, retribution will be taken from him on the Day of Resurrection."
Imam al-Bazzar and Imam al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat recorded it, and the chains of both are hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Thawban (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "On the Day of Resurrection, al-Jabbar, the Blessed and Exalted, will come and bend His leg upon the bridge and say: 'By My might and My majesty, no wrongdoer's wrong will pass by Me.' Then He will judge with justice between creatures in their dealings with one another, until He gives the hornless goat retribution from the horned goat for the butt it gave it."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Yazid bin Rabi'ah, whom a group declared da'if (weak), while Ibn Adi said: "I hope there is no harm in him"; the rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "On the Day of Resurrection a man will come with so many good deeds that he will think he will be saved because of them. But then someone whom he had wronged will come, and that man's good deeds will be taken and given to the wronged one, until no good deed of his remains. Then another person will come demanding from him, but none of his good deeds will remain, so the bad deeds of the wronged one will be taken and added to his bad deeds."
Al-Tabarani and Imam al-Bazzar recorded it via Abdullah bin Ishaq al-Attar from Khalid bin Hamzah, and I do not know these two; the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sulayman bin Habib al-Muharibi says: I set out to take part in a military expedition. When I passed through Hims, I went to the market to buy the things a traveller cannot do without. When I looked at the door of the mosque, I thought: if I go inside the mosque and offer two rak'ahs (it would be fitting). When I entered the mosque, I saw Thabit bin Ma'bad and Makhul there with a group of people. They said: "We intend to go to Sayyiduna Abu Umamah al-Bahili (may Allah be pleased with him)." They got up, and I got up with them. We came into the presence of Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him); he was a frail, aged old man, but his intellect and his speech were more excellent than his outward appearance. The first thing he said to us was: "This gathering of yours is a conveying from Allah Almighty to you and Allah Almighty's proof against you. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) conveyed what he was sent with, and the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) conveyed what they heard, so you too convey whatever you hear! 'There are three people for whom Allah Almighty is the guarantor: a man who goes out in the path of Allah, for it is upon Allah Almighty that He admits him into Paradise or brings him back with reward and spoils; and a man who enters his house with greeting of peace.'" Then he said: "Over Hell there will be a bridge with seven levels; on the middle one will be the disobedient. A servant will be brought, and when he reaches the middle level he will be asked: 'How much debt do you owe?'" Then he recited this verse: "And they will not be able to conceal any statement from Allah." "That person will say: 'O my Lord! I owe such and such.' It will be said to him: 'Pay your debt!' He will say: 'I have nothing at all; I do not know what I could pay it with.' It will be said: 'Take his good deeds!' Good deeds will be taken from him until no good deed of his remains. When his good deeds are finished, it will be said: 'His good deeds are finished.' Then it will be said: 'Take the sins of the one demanding from him and place them on him!'" (The narrator says:) It has reached me
that some people will come with good deeds like mountains, and their good deeds will keep being taken for those demanding (recompense) from them, until no good deed of that person remains.
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Kulthum bin Ziyad and Bakr bin Sahl al-Dimyati, both of whom have been declared trustworthy, though there is weakness in them; the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection the wrongdoer will come until he reaches the bridge over Hell, where there will be darkness and dread, and the wronged one will meet him. He will recognise him and will also recognise the wrong he did to him. Then the wronged will continually be given retribution from the wrongdoers until all the good deeds the wrongdoers have are taken from them; and when no good deeds of theirs remain, the bad deeds of the wronged will be placed upon them, until they are brought down to the lowest level of Hell."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its narrators have been declared trustworthy.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection, mountain-like wrongs that people committed against one another will be brought, and their rights will be brought, and then Allah Almighty will keep exacting retribution for them until nothing of them remains."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Jabir bin Yazid al-Ju'fi, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abu Burdah bin Niyar (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, Allah Almighty will hold a debtor (that is, one who owes some payment) for the other, as severely as anything can be held. He will say: 'O Lord! How can I give him anything when You have resurrected me naked and barefoot? So how can payment be made?' Allah Almighty will say: 'We will give these people your good deeds.' (The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says:) Then his good deeds will be given to the people; if they suffice, well and good; otherwise the people's sins will be taken and added to his sins."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Hammad bin Shu'ayb, who is extremely da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), from Sayyiduna al-Ruh al-Amin (peace be upon him): The Lord says: "The servant's bad deeds and good deeds will be brought, and then retribution will be given (the narrator is unsure, or perhaps the words are:) settlements will be made. If even one good deed of his remains, it will make room for him in Paradise."
Imam al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators have been declared trustworthy despite weakness in some of them.

Zadhan says: I came to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), and people in silk and brocade had reached him before me. I said: "You have brought people close and kept me far." He said to me: "Come close!" He brought me close until he seated me on his rug. Then he said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Parents will have a debt owed to them by their child (that is, a debt the parents are to receive from their child). When the Day of Resurrection comes, the parents will cling to their child (that is, demand repayment of their debt from him). He will say: 'I am your child,' but the parents will wish that they had more to receive from him than that." (Here the narrator is unsure about one word.)
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it via Amr bin Makhlad from Zakariyya bin Yahya al-Ansari, and I do not know these two; the rest of its narrators have been declared trustworthy, although there is weakness in some of them.

Jahm bin Aws says: I heard Abdullah bin Abi Maryam. Abdullah bin Rustum passed by him in his procession and said to Ibn Abi Maryam: "I wish I could sit with you and talk with you." When he had gone, Ibn Abi Maryam said: I heard Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) say that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not envy a sinful person for a blessing he has, for you do not know what he will face after his death. With Allah Almighty there is for him a killer (who will keep killing him), and he will not die."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May Allah Almighty have mercy on a servant who has wronged a brother of his in respect of life or property, and then goes to his brother and seeks his pardon before the Day of Resurrection, for on the Day of Resurrection there will be no dinar or dirham; there will only be good deeds." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah! What if he has no good deeds?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then the other person's sins will be taken and added to his sins."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Hashim bin Isa al-Yazani, whom I do not know; the rest of its narrators have been declared trustworthy, although there is weakness in some of them.