‘Abd Allāh ibn Mas‘ūd to Friday prayer. He found that three men had arrived before him and said: “The fourth of four—and the fourth of four is not far behind!” Then he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “On the Day of Resurrection, people will sit near Allah according to the order in which they went to Friday prayer: the first, then the second, then the third, then the fourth.” He said: “And the fourth of four is not far behind.”
Al-Dāraqutnī (1) said: Ahmad ibn Salmān ibn al-Hasan narrated to us; Muhammad ibn ‘Uthmān ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Marwān ibn Ja‘far (2) narrated to us; Nāfi‘ Abū al-Hasan, the freedman of Banū Hāshim, narrated to us; ‘Atā’ ibn Abī Maymūnah narrated to us, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “On the Day of Resurrection, the believers will see their Lord. Those whose sight of Him is most recent (3) will see Him every Friday, while believing women will see Him on the day of Eid al-Fitr and the day of Eid al-Adhā.”
He said: And (4) Muhammad ibn Nūh narrated to us; Mūsā (5) ibn Sufyān al-Sukkarī narrated to us, saying: We were told by