Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “No Muslim three of whose children die will enter the Fire, except in fulfilment of the oath.” (1)

By “the oath,” he meant His saying: “There is none of you but will come to it.”

ʿAbd al-Wahid al-Mulayhi informed us; Ahmad al-Nuʿaymi informed us; Muhammad ibn Yusuf informed us; Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil informed us; Muslim ibn Ibrahim informed us; Hisham informed us; Qatadah informed us from Anas, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “Whoever says, ‘None is worthy of worship but Allah,’ and has in his heart the weight of a barley grain of goodness, will be brought out of the Fire. Whoever says, ‘None is worthy of worship but Allah,’ and has in his heart the weight of a grain of wheat of goodness, will be brought out of the Fire. And whoever says, ‘None is worthy of worship but Allah,’ and has in his heart the weight of a speck of goodness, will be brought out of the Fire.” (2) Aban related from Qatadah that he said “faith” in place of “goodness.”

Abu al-Muzaffar Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil ibn ʿAli al-Shujaʿi informed us; Abu Nasr al-Nuʿman ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Jurjani informed us; Abu ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Basri informed us; Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab informed us; Muhammad ibn al-Fadl Abu al-Nuʿman informed us; Sallam ibn Miskin informed us; Abu al-Zilal informed us from Anas ibn Malik, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him: “A man in the Fire will call out for a thousand years, ‘O Most Compassionate, O Bestower of Favours!’ Allah, exalted is He, will say to Gabriel, ‘Go and bring Me this servant of Mine.’ Gabriel will go and find the people of the Fire bowed down and weeping. He will return and inform his Lord, exalted is He. He will say, ‘Go, for he is in such-and-such a place.’ So he will bring him. He will say, ‘My servant, how have you found your place and your resting-place?’ He will reply, ‘My Lord, it is the worst of places and the worst of resting-places.’ He will say, ‘Return My servant.’ The man will say, ‘I did not expect that You would return me to it after You had brought me out of it.’ Then Allah Most High will say to His angels, ‘Leave My servant.’” (3)

As for His saying, exalted is He, “They will not hear even its faintest sound” (al-Anbiyaʾ 21:102), it has been said that Allah, exalted is He, is speaking of the time when they will be in Paradise: they will not hear its sound then. Thus, it is possible that they heard it before entering Paradise, since He did not say that they had never heard its sound. It is also possible that they will not hear its sound when they enter it, because Allah, exalted is He, will make it cool and safe for them.