Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 418-11b

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"From ʿAbdullāh b. Salām, who said: While I was sleeping, a man came to me and said to me: Get up. He took me by the hand, and I set off with him. Then I found myself at some broad paths on my left. He said: Do not take them, for they are the roads of the people of the left. And there were broad paths on my right, and he said to me: Take this way. And he came to a mountain and said to me: Climb. Whenever I tried to climb, I fell down on my backside. I did that several times. Then he set off with me until he brought me to a pillar whose top was in the sky and whose bottom was on the earth, and at its top was a ring. He said to me: Climb up above this. I said to him: How can I climb above this when its top is in the sky? So he took me by the hand and lifted me up, and suddenly I was hanging on to the ring. Then he struck the pillar and it fell down, and I remained hanging on to the ring until the morning. Then I came to the Prophet ﷺ and told him about it. He said: As for the roads on your right, they are the roads of the people of the right. As for the mountain, it is the abodes of the martyrs, and you will not reach it. As for the pillar, it is the pillar of Islam. And as for the handhold, it is the handhold of Islam. You will remain holding fast to it until you die. Then he said: Do you know how God created Adam? He said: So-and-so begets so-and-so, and so-and-so begets so-and-so; his appointed term is such and such, his deeds are such and such, and his provision is such and such. Then the soul is breathed into him."

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