and then say, ‘I am your Lord, so follow Me.’ The Muslims will rise, and He will set the Bridge in place. They will be like swift horses and riding camels, and their plea upon it will be, ‘Grant us safety! Grant us safety!’” He then related the remainder of the hadith.

As for the hadith of Ibn Mas‘ūd, al-Khallāl mentioned it in The Book of the Sunnah, saying: Abū Bakr al-Marwadhī informed us: “I mentioned to Abū ‘Abd Allāh the hadith of