it will most certainly be filled—do you find that astonishing?! We have also been told that the span between the two leaves (1) of a single gate of Paradise is the distance of a forty-year journey, yet a day will surely come when it will be crammed with people. I recall myself as one of seven in the company of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; we had no food except tree-leaves until the sides of our mouths were ulcerated. I picked up a cloak, tore it in two, and shared it with Saʿd ibn Mālik: I wrapped half of it around my waist and Saʿd wrapped the other half around his. Today not one of us wakes up without being the governor of some province, and I seek refuge in Allah from being great in my own eyes while small in His.” Muslim narrated this.
His phrase “ādhantu” is pronounced with a lengthened alif and means: “I have made it known.” The expression “bi ṣurmin” has a ḍamma on the ṣād and signifies: “their cessation and disappearance.” “Wa wallat ḥaḏḏāʾ” is written with an unpointed ḥāʾ, then a dotted, geminated ḏāl, followed by an extended alif, and it means: “swiftly.” The term “aṣ-ṣabābah,” with a ḍamma on the ṣād, denotes: “the small remainder.” The word “yataṣābbuhā,” with the bāʾ doubled before the hāʾ, means: “he gathers it together.” “Al-kaẓīẓ” means: “abundant and full,” and “qariḥat,” with a fatḥa on the qāf and a kasra on the rāʾ, means: “sores developed in them.”
504 – Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) produced a heavy cloak and a coarse waist-wrapper and said, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away wearing these two.” Agreed upon.
505 – Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “I am the first Arab to shoot an arrow in the path of Allah. We used to go on campaign with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and had no food except the leaves of al-ḥublah and this as-samr, until one of us would defecate (2) like a sheep, with nothing to mix it.” Agreed upon.
“Al-ḥublah,” with a ḍamma on the unpointed ḥāʾ and a sukūn on the bāʾ, and both it and as-samr,