Paradise. Then it will be said: “O inhabitants of Paradise, pour water over them.” Thereupon they will grow as a seed grows in the silt carried by a torrent.”

Muslim (1/118), Abu ʿAwanah (1/186), al-Darimi (2/331–332), Ibn Majah (2/582–583), Ahmad (3/11 and 78–79), and al-Tabari in his Exegesis (1/552/797) recorded it through Saʿid ibn Yazid Abu Salamah, from Abu Nadrah, from Abu Saʿid al-Khudri, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with this wording.

Abu Saʿid al-Jurayri also corroborated him, from Abu Nadrah, with the same report. The second version, including the addition, is also his. Ahmad (3/20) and ʿAbd ibn Humayd, in al-Muntakhab min al-Musnad (folio 95/2), recorded it. Sulayman al-Taymi also corroborated him. Abu ʿAwanah and ʿAbd ibn Humayd recorded it. ʿUthman ibn Ghiyath and ʿAwf also narrated it from Abu Nadrah with similar wording. ʿUthman added: “They will be burned and become charcoal.” Ahmad (3/25 and 90) recorded this with an authentic chain of transmission.

Ahmad also has another route (3/90), through Ibn Jurayj, who said: Abu al-Zubayr informed me from Abu Saʿid that he heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “People will come forth from the Fire, having been burned and become like charred coals. Then the inhabitants of Paradise will continue sprinkling water over them until they grow like cucumber plants in a torrent.”

Ibn Lahiʿah differed from him, narrating from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir, that Abu Saʿid related it to him. Ibn Lahiʿah had poor retention, and the first route is more authentic; it meets Muslim’s criteria.

Ḍabāʾir is the plural of ḍabārah, meaning a group of people.