Allah will say on the Day of Resurrection: ‘O Adam!’ He will reply: ‘At Your service, ever ready to obey You.’ Then a voice will call out: ‘Allah commands you to bring forth from your descendants a contingent for the Fire.’ He will ask: ‘My Lord, what is the contingent for the Fire?’ He will say: ‘From every thousand’—I think he said—‘nine hundred and ninety-nine.’ At that point, every pregnant woman will deliver her child.”

“And you will see the people as if intoxicated, though they are not intoxicated; but the punishment of Allah is severe.” (Al-Hajj: 2)

He also mentioned the hadith of Ibn Mas‘ūd—which Ahmad cited as evidence—and the hadith he related in his Sahīh from Ikrima:

I heard Abū Hurayra say that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“When Allah decrees a matter in heaven, the angels beat their wings in submission to His speech, as though it were a chain upon smooth stone.”

Then, when “fear is lifted from their hearts, they say, ‘What has your Lord said?’ They say, ‘The truth.’ And He is the Most High, the Most Great.” (Saba: 23)

He also mentioned the well-known hadith of Ibn Abbās, transmitted by al-Zuhrī from Alī ibn al-Husayn, from Ibn Abbās, from a group of the Ansār—related by Ahmad and Muslim