al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7637

Translation

✧ The Prophet ﷺ came out to us and said, "My close friend Gabriel came to me in a hurry and said, 'O Muhammad, by the One who sent you with the truth, Allah Almighty has a servant among his servants named Abdullah, who has been worshipping Allah for five hundred years atop a mountain in the sea. The mountain's width and length are thirty cubits, and it is surrounded by a four-thousand-farsakh sea from all sides. Allah, the Exalted, has granted him a pure spring of fresh water as wide as a finger, which collects in the bottom of the mountain. Additionally, there is a pomegranate tree that bears a fresh pomegranate for him every night to sustain him during the day. When the evening falls, he descends and performs ablution. Then he takes one of those pomegranates and eats it before standing for his prayer. He beseeches his Lord, the Mighty and Majestic, at the time of his appointed meeting, to take his soul while he is in prostration, and to not let anything corrupt him in the earth. Allah answered his supplication and will resurrect him on the Day of Resurrection while he is still in prostration before Him. The Lord will say to him, 'Enter Paradise, O My servant, by My mercy.' But the servant will say, 'O Lord, rather by my deeds.' The Lord will repeat, 'Enter Paradise, O My servant, by My mercy.' Again, the servant will say, 'O Lord, rather by my deeds.' Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will then address the angels, 'Appraise My servant according to My favors and his deeds.' His vision will extend for five hundred years of worship, and his bodily blessings will remain beyond that. The Lord will then order, 'Take My servant to the Hellfire.' He will be dragged towards it and will cry out to his Lord, 'O Lord, by Your mercy, admit me to Paradise!' The Lord will respond, 'Return him.' He will be placed before his Lord. The Lord will ask him, 'O My servant, who created you when you were nothing?' The servant will answer, 'You, O Lord.' The Lord will ask, 'Was that by My favor or by My mercy?' The servant will answer, 'Rather, by Your mercy, O Lord.' The Lord will ask, 'Who empowered you to worship for five hundred years?' The servant will answer, 'You, O Lord.' The Lord will ask, 'Who placed you on a mountain amidst the waves, brought forth fresh water for you from salty water, and made a pomegranate tree bear a fresh pomegranate for you every night, even though it usually produces only once a year? Did you request that I take your soul in prostration, and did I grant you that?' The servant will answer, 'You, O Lord.' Allah, the Exalted, will declare, 'All of this was by My mercy, and by My mercy I will admit you to Paradise. Enter, My servant, paradise.' Jabriel said, 'O Muhammad, things are only dependent on the mercy of Allah, the Exalted.'"

Notes

• «هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ فَإِنَّ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنَ هَرِمٍ الْعَابِدَ مِنْ زُهَّادِ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ وَاللَّيْثَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ لَا يَرْوِي عَنِ الْمَجْهُولِينَ» لا والله وسليمان بن هرم غير معتمد

  machine translation"This is a ḥadīth with a sound chain (ṣaḥīḥ al-isnād), for Sulaymān b. Harim the devout was one of the ascetics of the people of Syria, and al-Layth b. Saʿd does not narrate from unknown people." No, by God! Sulaymān b. Harim is not relied upon. Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  هذا حديث صحيح الإسناد

  machine translationThis is a hadith with an authentic chain (ṣaḥīḥ al-isnād). Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 7732
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  في استدلاله بما ذكر لعدم صحته نظر

  machine translationThere is room for objection in his reasoning from what he mentioned, since it is not sound. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 7732
• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  صحيح والليث بن سعد لا يروي عن المجهولين

  machine translationSound (ṣaḥīḥ), and al-Layth b. Saʿd does not narrate from unknown people. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 7732

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 130 AH, or 131 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِثقة فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Sulaymān b. Harim
   سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ هَرِمٍ
   عن
4. 4
   al-Layth b. Saʿd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
   اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyā b. Bukayr

   Trustworthy (thiqah) in narrating from al-Layth, but they spoke critically about his hearing from Mālikd. 231 AH or 232 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍثقة في الليث ، وتكلموا في سماعه من مالك
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿUbayd b. Sharīk

   d. 285 AH
   عُبَيْدُ بْنُ شَرِيكٍ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   ʿAlī b. Ḥamshādh al-ʿAdl

   d. 338 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ حَمْشَاذَ الْعَدْلُ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   al-Ḥākim

   d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
   الحاكم

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