and this is the abode of My honour, so ask Me (1).” They ask Him for His good pleasure. He said, “My good pleasure brought you into My abode and granted you My honour; ask Me.” They ask Him for His good pleasure. He said: He then makes them witnesses to His good pleasure. They continue asking Him until all their desires are fulfilled. Then, on Friday (2), He opens up for them what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has imagined.
He said: Then the Lord of Might ascends, and the prophets and martyrs ascend with Him, while the inhabitants of the chambers return to their chambers. He said: Each chamber is made of a pearl with no seam or crack, a red ruby, or a green emerald. Its doors, upper rooms, roofs, and locks are made of the same substance. Its rivers flow continuously, and its fruits hang down within it. Within it are its inhabitants’ spouses and servants. He said: There is nothing they need more than Friday, so that they may receive more of Allah’s honour, Mighty and Majestic, and gaze more (3) upon His Face. That is the Day of Increase.” (4)
This hadith has several chains of transmission, which Abū al-Hasan al-Dāraqutnī mentioned in Kitāb al-Ruʾyah (The Book of Seeing Allah) (5).
Twenty-sixth: The “witness” by which Allah swears in His Book has been interpreted as the day of