He heard Jabir ibn Abd Allah say: “News reached me that a man possessed a hadith he had heard from the Messenger of Allah, so I bought a camel, packed my saddle on it, and travelled for a month until I reached him in Syria. I found that the man was Abd Allah ibn Unays. I said to the gate-keeper: ‘Tell him: Jabir is at the door.’ He asked, ‘The son of Abd Allah?’ I replied, ‘Yes.’ He came out, his garment trailing, embraced me and I embraced him. I said, ‘A hadith about qisas (retaliatory justice) has reached me that you heard from the Messenger of Allah. I feared you might die or I might die before I could hear it.’ He said, ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah say: “People—or he said: the servants—will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection naked, uncircumcised, and buhama (completely empty-handed).” We asked, “What is buhama?” He answered, “They will possess nothing.” Then He will call them in a voice that is heard by those far away just as clearly as by those who are near: “I am the King, I am the Judge. No one destined for Hellfire may enter it while he still has a claim over someone destined for Paradise, until I have taken it from him, even down to a slap.” We said, “How will that happen when we shall come to Allah naked, uncircumcised, and empty-handed?” He replied, “By means of good deeds and bad deeds.” Ibn Hajar graded the hadith hasan in Fath al-Bari, 1/158. Al-Hakim declared it sahih (2/437-438) and al-Dhahabi concurred. It has another chain in al-Tabarani’s Musnad al-Shamiyyin through al-Hajjaj ibn Dinar—from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir—from Jabir with a similar wording, and a third chain in al-Khatib, no. 33, but that version is defective. (1) Recorded in al-Mustadrak, 3/565, and by al-Tabarani (no. 1733) through Muhammad ibn Umar (al-Waqidi). (2) Reported by al-Bukhari, 7/341 (Book of Maghazi), and by Muslim, 1856 (71), through Sufyan from Amr, who said: “I heard Jabir ibn Abd Allah,” and he related the story.