‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Jahm al-Rāzī; ‘Amr ibn Abī Qays narrated to us, from Abū Zabyah (1), from ‘Āsim, from ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Umayr Abū al-Yaqzān, from Anas ibn Mālik, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:
“Gabriel, peace be upon him, came to me holding something like a white mirror, with something like a black spot in it. I asked, ‘What is this, Gabriel?’ He replied, ‘This is Friday, which your Lord presents to you so that it may be a festival for you and your people after you.’ He said (2), ‘And what is there for us on it?’ He replied, ‘There is good for you on it. You are first in observing it, and the Jews and Christians come after you. On it there is an hour during which, whenever a servant asks Allah, Mighty and Majestic, for something allotted to him, He grants it to him; or, if it is not allotted to him, He grants him something better. Allah also protects him from the evil of what is decreed for him; otherwise (3), He wards off from him something greater than that.’
“He said: I asked, ‘What is this black spot?’ He replied, ‘It is the Hour, which will come on a Friday. Friday is the chief of days among us, and the people of the Hereafter call it “the Day of Increase.”’ He said: I asked, ‘Gabriel, what is the Day of Increase?’ He replied, ‘Your Lord, Mighty and Majestic, has prepared (4) in Paradise a spacious valley of white musk. When Friday comes, He descends onto His Seat, then surrounds the Seat with pulpits of light. The prophets come and sit upon them. Then He surrounds those pulpits with pulpits of gold, and the truthful and the martyrs come and sit upon them. The inhabitants of the chambers come and sit upon the mounds.’
“He said, ‘Then their Lord, Mighty and Majestic, reveals Himself to them.’ He said, ‘They look at Him, and He says, “I am the One who has fulfilled My promise to you and completed My favour upon you,