al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 404

Translation

✧ A bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, “What is your Cistern that you talk about?” He said, “It is like the distance between al-Bayḍāʾ and Buṣrā. Allah will supply me in it with a cup so large that no human knows from what it was created or where its two ends are.” ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb said takbīr and said, “As for the Cistern, the poor emigrants will come to it—those who fight in the path of Allah and die in the path of Allah. I hope that He will grant me that cup so I may drink from it.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “My Lord promised me to admit into Paradise seventy thousand of my community without reckoning. Then each thousand will intercede for seventy thousand. Then my Lord, Blessed and Exalted, will scoop with His two hands three scoops.” ʿUmar said takbīr and said, “The first seventy thousand, Allah will let them intercede for their fathers, sons, and clans. I hope Allah will place me in one of the last scoops.” The bedouin said, “O Messenger of Allah, does it have fruit?” He said, “Yes, and in it is a tree called Ṭūbā. It corresponds to al-Firdaws.” He said, “Which tree of our land does it resemble?” He said, “It does not resemble any tree of your land. But have you been to Syria?” He said, “No, O Messenger of Allah.” He said, “It resembles a tree in Syria called the walnut. It grows on one trunk, then its top spreads out.” He said, “How large is its base?” He said, “If a young camel of your family’s camels set out to circle it, it would not complete the circuit before its collarbone breaks from old age.” He said, “Does it have grapes?” He said, “Yes.” He said, “How large is a cluster of them?” He said, “A month’s journey for the pied crow, not turning aside and not tiring.” He said, “How large is a single grape from it?” He said, “Did your father ever slaughter a large animal from his sheep?” He said, “Yes.” He said, “He skinned its hide and gave it to your mother, saying, ‘Tan this, then cut from it buckets for us to water our livestock with’?” He said, “Yes.” He said, “Will that satisfy me and my household?” The Prophet ﷺ said, “And the majority of your clan.”

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  سند جيد

  machine translationA good (jayyid) chain. Report a problem

  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 404
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  فيه عامر بن زيد البكالي وقد ذكره ابن أبي حاتم ولم يجرحه ولم يوثقه وبقية رجاله ثقات

  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 404
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  فيه عامر بن البكالي وقد ذكره ابن أبي حاتم ولم يجرحه ولم يوثقه وبقية رجاله ثقات

  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 404
• al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī

  لا أعلم له علة

  machine translationI do not know of any defect (ʿillah) in it. Report a problem

  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 404

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUtbah b. ʿAbd al-Ḥimṣī

   Famous Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 87 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH
   عُتْبَةُ بْنُ عَبْدٍ الْحِمْصِيُّصحابي شهير
   سمع
2. 2
   ʿĀmir b. Zayd al-Bikālī
   عَامِرُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ الْبِكَالِيُّ
   حدثني
3. 3
   Abū Sallām

   trustworthy (thiqah), he narrates mursal reports (yursil)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   أَبَا سَلَّامٍثقة يرسل
   سمع
4. 4
   Zayd b. Sallām

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 AH and 130 AH
   زَيْدِ بْنِ سَلَّامٍثقة
   عن
5. 5
   Muʿāwiyah b. Sallām

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. around 170 AH or after it
   مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ سَلَّامٍثقة
   نا
6. 6
   Abū Tawbah

   trustworthy (thiqah), proof (ḥujjah), devout worshipperd. 241 AH, also said: after 220 AH
   أَبُو تَوْبَةَثقة ، حجة ، عابد
   نا
7. 7
   Aḥmad b. Khulayd

   d. after 280 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ خُلَيْدٍ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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