Sahih Ibn Hibban 7423
✧ Description of Paradise and its inhabitants
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ حَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ وَحُمَيْدٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَدِمَ الْمَدِينَةَ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلَامٍ فِي نَخْلٍ لَهُ فَأَتَى عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ سَلَامٍ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنِّي سَائِلُكَ عَنْ أَشْيَاءَ لَا يَعْلَمُهَا إِلَّا نَبِيٌّ فَإِنْ أَنْتَ أَخْبَرْتَنِي بِهَا آمَنْتُ بِكَ فَسَأَلَهُ عَنِ الشَّبَهِ وَعَنْ أَوَّلِ شَيْءٍ يَحْشُرُ النَّاسَ وَعَنْ أَوَّلِ شَيْءٍ يَأْكُلُهُ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أَخْبَرَنِي بِهِنَّ جِبْرِيلُ آنِفًا» قَالَ ذَاكَ عَدُوُّ الْيَهُودِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أَمَا الشَّبَهُ إِذَا سَبَقَ مَاءُ الرَّجُلِ مَاءَ الْمَرْأَةِ ذَهَبَ بِالشَّبَهِ وَإِذَا سَبَقَ مَاءُ الْمَرْأَةِ مَاءَ الرَّجُلِ ذَهَبَ بِالشَّبَهِ وَأَوَّلُ شَيْءٍ يَحْشُرُ النَّاسَ نَارٌ تَجِيءُ مِنْ قِبَلِ الْمَشْرِقِ فَتَحْشُرُ النَّاسَ إِلَى الْمَغْرِبِ وَأَوَّلُ شَيْءٍ يَأْكُلُهُ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ رَأْسُ ثَوْرٍ وَكَبِدُ حُوتٍ» ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ الْيَهُودَ قَوْمٌ بُهْتٌ وَإِنَّهُمْ إِنْ سَمِعُوا بِإِيمَانِي بِكَ بَهَتُونِي وَوَقَعُوا فِيَّ فَأُحِبُّ أَنِّي أَبْعَثُ إِلَيْهِمْ فَبَعَثَ فَجَاؤُوا فَقَالَ «مَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلَامٍ؟ » قَالُوا سَيِّدُنَا وَابْنُ سَيِّدِنَا وَعَالِمُنَا وَابْنُ عَالِمِنَا وَخَيْرُنَا وَابْنُ خَيْرِنَا فَقَالَ ﷺ «أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِنْ أَسْلَمَ أَتُسْلِمُونَ؟ » فَقَالُوا أَعَاذَهُ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ مَا كَانَ لِيَفْعَلَ فَقَالَ اخْرُجْ يَا ابْنَ سَلَامٍ «فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَقَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَقَالُوا بَلْ هُوَ شَرُّنَا وَابْنُ شَرِّنَا وَجَاهِلُنَا وَابْنُ جَاهِلِنَا قَالَ أَلَمْ أُخْبِرْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنَّهُمْ قَوْمٌ بُهْتٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān
- Shaybān b. Abū Shaybah
- Ḥammād b. Salamah
- Thābit and Ḥumayd
- Anas
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to Madinah, and Abdullah b. Salam was in his palm grove. Abdullah b. Salam came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: I will ask you about things that no one knows except a prophet. If you tell me them, I will believe in you. He asked him about resemblance, about the first thing that will gather the people, and about the first thing the people of Paradise will eat. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Gabriel informed me about them just now." He said: That is the enemy of the Jews. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "As for resemblance, if the man's fluid precedes the woman's fluid, the child will resemble him, and if the woman's fluid precedes the man's fluid, the child will resemble her. The first thing that will gather the people is a fire that will come from the east and gather the people to the west. The first thing the people of Paradise will eat is the head of a bull and the liver of a whale." Then he said: O Messenger of Allah, the Jews are a slanderous people; if they hear of my belief in you, they will slander me and attack me. I would like you to send for them. So he sent for them and they came. He said: "What do you say about Abdullah b. Salam?" They said: He is our master and the son of our master, our scholar and the son of our scholar, our best and the son of our best. He ﷺ said: "Do you think that if he accepts Islam, you will accept Islam?" They said: May Allah protect him from saying that; he would never do it. He said: Come out, O Ibn Salam. So he came out to them and said: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. They said: Rather, he is our worst and the son of our worst, our ignoramus and the son of our ignoramus. He said: Did I not tell you, O Messenger of Allah, that they are a slanderous people?
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Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a concealer of defects in transmission (mudallis); Zāʾidah faulted him for involving himself in some of the affairs of the rulers.d. at the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate, the year 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH.وَحُمَيْدٍثقة مدلس ، وعابه زائدة لدخوله في شيء من أمر الأمراء.عن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), has lapses (wahm), and accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 235 AH, or 236 AH, or 237 AH, or 238 AHشَيْبَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَصدوق يهم , ورمي بالقدرحدثنا
- d. 303 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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