Musnad Ahmad 15841

Translation

✧ We had a neighbor from the Jews among the Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal. He said: One day he came out to us from his house a little before the sending of the Prophet ﷺ, and stood by the assembly of the Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal. Salama said: I was then the youngest of them in age, wearing a burda (cloak), lying in it in the courtyard of my family. He mentioned the resurrection, the standing, the reckoning, the scale, Paradise, and the Fire. He said that to a people of polytheism, idol worshipers, who did not think that any resurrection would occur after death. They said to him: 'Woe to you, O so-and-so! Do you think this will happen, that people will be resurrected after their death to an abode in which there is Paradise and Fire, where they will be recompensed for their deeds?' He said: 'Yes, by the One by whom oaths are sworn, he would wish that his share of that Fire would be the greatest oven in this world, which they would heat up, then make him enter it, and close it upon him—and that he would escape from that Fire tomorrow.' They said to him: 'Woe to you! What is the sign of that?' He said: 'A Prophet who will be sent from the direction of these lands,' and he pointed with his hand toward Makkah and Yemen. They said: 'And when do you see him?' He said: Then he looked at me, and I was the youngest of them in age, and he said: 'If this boy lives out his lifespan, he will reach him.' Salama said: By Allah, night and day had not gone by before Allah, Exalted, sent His Messenger ﷺ, and he was alive among us. So we believed in him, but he disbelieved in him out of envy and jealousy. We said: 'Woe to you, O so-and-so! Are you not the one who told us about him what you told us?!' He said: 'Yes, but he is not the one.'

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