plates of fire. They will be heated in the blaze of Hell, and with them his flank, his forehead, and his back will be branded. Whenever they cool they will be reheated for him during a Day whose length is fifty thousand years, until judgment is concluded among the servants and he is shown his destination—either to Paradise or to Hell.

Someone asked, “Messenger of Allah, what about camels?” He replied, “No owner of camels who fails to pay what is due on them—including milking them on the day they are taken to water—will escape. On the Day of Resurrection they will be laid out for him on a vast, level plain, at their fullest and most numerous, not even a single calf missing. They will trample him with their hooves and bite him with their mouths; when the first of them has passed over him, the last of them will be made to return and do the same, throughout a Day whose length is fifty thousand years, until judgment is finished among the servants and he is shown his path—either to Paradise or to Hell.”

They asked, “Messenger of Allah, what about cattle and sheep?” He said, “No owner of cattle or sheep who fails to pay what is due on them will escape. On the Day of Resurrection they will be laid out for him on a level plain; none of them will be missing, and among them there will be none with twisted horns, none without horns, and none with a broken horn. They will gore him with their horns and trample him with their hooves; when the first of them has passed over him, the last will be made to return and do the same, throughout a Day whose length is fifty thousand years, until judgment is finished among the servants and he is shown his path—either to Paradise or to Hell.”

They asked, “Messenger of Allah, what about horses?” He said, “Horses are of three kinds: for one man they are a burden (sin), for another they are a cover (protection), and for a third they are a source of reward.

1. The horse that is a burden: a man keeps it out of ostentation, pride, and as a force against the Muslims; for him it is a burden.
2. The horse that is a cover: a man keeps it in the path of Allah and does not neglect Allah’s right in its back and neck; for him it is a cover.
3. The horse that is a reward: a man keeps it in the path of Allah for the Muslims, letting it graze in a pasture or meadow. Whatever it eats from that pasture or meadow is written for him as good deeds equal to what it has eaten, and an equal number of good deeds is recorded for its droppings and urine. It does not break its tether and run up a hill or two except that Allah records