their footsteps.’ He said, “They will cross a bridge through the Fire. One of you will step on a glowing coal and cry, ‘Ouch!’ Then your Lord will speak.” Or he said: “You will then come to the Cistern of Allah’s Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, as the thirstiest company coming to drink that, by Allah, I have ever seen. By the life of your God, not one of you will stretch out his hand—or he said, lower it—without a cup falling into it, cleansing him of excrement, urine, and harm. The sun and moon will be withdrawn—or he said, held back—so that you will see neither of them.”

I said, “O Messenger of Allah, how will we see that day?”

He said, “Just as you see at this very moment. That will be on a day when the earth shines and the mountains stand in view.”

He said: I asked, “O Messenger of Allah, how will we be recompensed for our evil deeds and our good deeds?”

He, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “A good deed is rewarded tenfold, and an evil deed is repaid with its equivalent