The Book of Paradise, its Description, its Bounties and its Inhabitants
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 7201
يَا رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي . فَيُقَالُ إِنَّكَ لاَ تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ . فَأَقُولُ كَمَا قَالَ الْعَبْدُ الصَّالِحُ { وَكُنْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيدًا مَا دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ فَلَمَّا تَوَفَّيْتَنِي كُنْتَ أَنْتَ الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَأَنْتَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ شَهِيدٌ * إِنْ تُعَذِّبْهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ عِبَادُكَ وَإِنْ تَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ فَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ} قَالَ فَيُقَالُ لِي إِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَزَالُوا مُرْتَدِّينَ عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمْ مُنْذُ فَارَقْتَهُمْ
yā rabbi aṣḥābī . fayuqālu innaka lā tadrī mā aḥdathūā baʿdaka . fa-aqūlu kamā qāla al-ʿabdu aṣ-ṣāliḥu { wakuntu ʿalayhim shahīdan mā dumtu fīhim falammā tawaffaytanī kunta anta ar-raqība ʿalayhim wa-anta ʿalā kulli shayʾin shahīdun * in tuʿadhibhum fa-innahum ʿibāduka wa-in taghfir lahum fa-innaka anta al-ʿazīzu al-ḥakīmu qāla fayuqālu lī innahum lam yazālūā murtaddīna ʿalā aʿqābihim mundhu fāraqtahum
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The full narration
This hadith has been narrated through other chains of transmitters on the authority of Ibn Abbas, (and) the words are:While Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) stood up to deliver a sermon, he said: 0 people, Allah would make you assemble barefooted, naked and uncircumcised (and then recited the words of the Qur'an):" As We created you for the first time, We shall repeat it. (It is) a promise (binding) upon us. Lo! We are to perform it, and the first person who would be clothed on the Day of Resurrection would be (Hadrat) Ibrahim (peace be upon him)" and, behold! some persons of my Ummah would be brought and taken to the left and I would say: My Lord, they are my companions, and it would be said: You do not know what they did after you, and I would say just as the pious servant (Hadrat 'Isa) said:, I was a witness regarding them as I remained among them and Thou art a witness over everything, so if Thou chastisest them, they are Thy servants and if Thou for- givest them, Thou art Mighty, Wise" (v. 117-118). And it would be said to him: They constantly turned to their heels since you left them. This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Waki' and Mu'adh (and the words are):" What new things they fabricated
Source
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim · 7201
- Agreed upon as authentic (al-Bukhārī / Muslim)