his father, who related to him from Ibn Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “When the people of Paradise have entered Paradise and the people of the Fire have entered the Fire, death will be brought and placed between Paradise and the Fire. It will then be slaughtered, and a caller will proclaim: ‘O people of Paradise, there is no death! O people of the Fire, there is no death!’ Thus the people of Paradise will increase in joy upon their joy, and the people of the Fire will increase in grief upon their grief.” (1) (2)
Abd al-Wahid al-Malihi informed us; Ahmad al-Nu'aymi informed us; Muhammad ibn Yusuf informed us; Muhammad ibn Isma'il informed us; Abu al-Yaman informed us; Shu'ayb informed us; Abu al-Zinad informed us from al-A'raj, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “No one enters Paradise without seeing the place he would have occupied in the Fire had he done evil, so that he may increase in gratitude; and no one enters the Fire without being shown the place he would have occupied in Paradise had he done good, so that it may be a source of regret for him.” (3)
Abu al-Hasan Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Dawudi informed us; Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Musa ibn al-Salt informed us; Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Samad al-Hashimi informed us; al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan informed us; Ibn al-Mubarak informed us; Yahya ibn Abd Allah (4) said: I heard my father say: I heard Abu Hurayrah say: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “No one dies except that he feels regret.” They asked, “What is his regret, O Messenger of Allah?” He said: “If he was a doer of good, he regrets that he did not do more; and if he was an evildoer, he regrets that he did not desist.” (5)
His saying, exalted is He, “while they remain heedless”: that is, of what will be done to them in the Hereafter. “And they do not believe”: that is, they do not affirm it as true.
“Indeed, it is We Who shall inherit the earth and whoever is upon it, and to Us they will be returned. And mention in the Book Abraham. Indeed, he was ever a man of consummate truthfulness and a prophet.” (40–41)
His saying, exalted is He, “Indeed, it is We Who shall inherit the earth and whoever is upon it”: that is, We shall cause the inhabitants of the earth to die and destroy them all, while the Lord alone remains; thus He inherits them. “And to Us they will be returned”: then We shall recompense them for their deeds. His saying, exalted is He, “And mention in the Book Abraham. Indeed, he was ever a man of consummate truthfulness and a prophet”: A man of consummate truthfulness is one who is exceedingly truthful and steadfast in truthfulness. It is also said: one who affirmed Allah’s oneness, believed His prophets and messengers, and believed in the resurrection,