2163 – Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Yaʿqūb narrated to us; he said: Muhammad ibn ⦗1222⦘ Hārūn al-Ruwayānī narrated to us; he said: al-Rabīʿ narrated to us; he said: Abū ʿAwāna narrated to us, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Wāʾil, from Abū Mūsā, who said:

“The soul of the believer departs smelling sweeter than musk. The angels who take him in death ascend with it, and angels stationed below the heaven meet them and ask, ‘What is this that you have brought?’ The escorting angels reply, ‘Crown him! This is so-and-so, the son of so-and-so; he used to do such-and-such—his finest deeds.’ Those angels then say, ‘May Allah welcome you, and welcome what you have brought.’ The angels add, ‘This is the gate through which his words and deeds used to rise.’ He is carried up until he comes before his Lord, bearing a proof as radiant as the sun.

“As for the soul of the disbeliever, it is more putrid—worse than a decaying corpse. It is left in the valley of Ḥaḍramawt, then driven down beneath the lowest layer of the seven earths.”