Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4539 — The description of the resurrection

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he narrated this hadith to the Commander of the Faithful, Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him): "When all the people are gathered on the plain of assembly on the Day of Resurrection, they will stand for forty (years, or a long period), with the sun right over their heads (blazing), their eyes fixed in awe on the sky, all of them awaiting the judgement, whether righteous or wicked, and not a single human among them will speak. Then a caller will call out: 'Is it not perfect justice on the part of your Lord, who created you, fashioned you and provided for you, and then you worshipped others besides Him, that He hand over every group to whatever they followed in the world?' They will reply: 'Yes indeed (this is surely justice).' An angel will make this call three times. Then for every people the self-made deities they used to worship will be brought before them, and they will follow them until those deities lead them into the Fire. Then only the true believers and the hypocrites will remain. The believers will fall down in prostration before Allah, while the backs of the hypocrites will become (fused and) so rigid that they cannot bend; they will become like a single bone, like the horns of cattle, and they will fall backwards on the napes of their necks (in their attempt to prostrate). Then Allah Almighty will say to those believers: 'Raise your heads to your light, given in proportion to your deeds.' So one man will raise his head and his light before him will be like a mountain (in greatness); another will raise his head and his light will be like a palace; another will raise his head and his light will be like a house, until he mentioned the example of a tree. Then they will pass over the Sirat like lightning, like the swiftness of the wind, like the gallop of a thoroughbred horse and like a strong man running, until the last person remains, whose light will be on the big toe of his foot like a lamp; at times it will shine for him and at times it will go out, and the flames of the Fire will be reaching him. He will remain in this agonising state until he gets out of it. Then he will say (in joy): 'The deliverance I have been given has not been given to anyone besides me, and no one has suffered the like of what I suffered; its heat scorched me, and then I was saved from it.' He said: Then a gate of Paradise will be opened for him and he will plead: 'Ya Rabbi, adkhilni hadha' (O my Lord, admit me into this). Allah Almighty will say: 'O My servant, perhaps if I admit you into it, you will ask Me for something else besides it.' He said: Then Allah will admit him into it. While he is still amazed and delighted by its blessings, another gate will be opened for him, and the blessing he is in will seem insignificant to him compared with this new one. He will again say: 'Ya Rabbi, adkhilni hadha' (O my Lord, admit me into this). Allah will say: 'Did you not pledge that you would not ask for anything besides it?' He will say: 'By Your might and majesty! If You admit me into it, I will not ask You for anything else.' He said: Allah will admit him, until he is admitted through four gates one after another, and each time he will make the same request. Then a man will come before him shining like light; when he sees him he will fall down (out of awe at his grandeur) and prostrate to him. That man will say: 'What is the matter with you?' He will say: 'Are you not my Lord?' He will say: 'I am merely a steward (an overseer). In Paradise you have a thousand stewards like me and a thousand palaces, between every two palaces is a distance of a thousand years' journey, and the farthest of them is seen as (clearly) as the nearest.' Then a gate of green emerald will be opened for him, in which there are seventy gates, and in every gate there are wives, couches and servants. He will sit with his wife and she will offer him the cup of love and say: 'Since I offered you this cup, your beauty has increased seventy times over what it was before.' That woman will be wearing seventy garments of different colours, the marrow of her shin will be visible (from outside, owing to its fineness), and the man will wear his garments facing her chest, and her skin (liver) will be like a mirror (in clarity) for him."
This chain is sahih (authentic) and connected, and all its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).