Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 36889 — Reports on what is prepared

Abu Abdullah al-Jadali said: When I came to Bayt al-Maqdis, I found Sayyiduna Ubadah bin al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him), Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) and Ka'b al-Ahbar conversing with each other there. Sayyiduna Ubadah said: "On the Day of Resurrection people will be gathered on one plain, where the gaze will reach them and the caller will make them hear. Allah Almighty will say: 'This is the Day of Decision; We have gathered you and those of earlier times. If you have a plan, then carry it out' [Al-Mursalat: 38-39]. Today no defiant tyrant and no rebellious devil will escape from Me." Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "We find in the Book that a neck will come forth from Hell, and it will set off at speed until it is among the people, and it will say: 'O people, I have been sent to three kinds of sinners. I know them better than a father knows his son and a brother knows his brother. Nothing can save them from me. I have been sent to the one who associates another with Allah Almighty, to every wrongdoing tyrant, and to every rebellious devil.' Then that neck will snatch those people and they will be thrown into the Fire forty days or forty years before the reckoning begins. Then a group will be hastening to Paradise. The angels will say to them: 'Stop for the reckoning.' They will say: 'We were neither wealthy nor rulers. What reckoning could there be for us?' Allah Almighty will say: 'My servants have spoken the truth. I am the One who fulfills the promise. Enter Paradise.' Then they will enter Paradise forty days or forty years before the reckoning begins."