Thinking about death

The Book of Paradise, its Description, its Bounties and its Inhabitants

Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 7167

هَذَا حَجَرٌ رُمِيَ بِهِ فِي النَّارِ مُنْذُ سَبْعِينَ خَرِيفًا فَهُوَ يَهْوِي فِي النَّارِ الآنَ حَتَّى انْتَهَى إِلَى قَعْرِهَا

hadhā ḥajarun rumiya bihi fī an-nāri mundhu sabʿīna kharīfan fahuwa yahwī fī an-nāri al-āna ḥattā āntahā ilā qaʿrihā

Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks

The full narration

Abu Huraira reported:We were in the company of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) that we heard a terrible sound. Thereupon Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said: Do you know what (sound) is this? We said: Allah and His Messenger know best. Thereupon he said: That is a stone which was thrown seventy years before in Hell and it has'been constantly slipping down and now it has reached its base

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