It was recorded by Abū Yaʿlā (1), al-Bayhaqī, and others through a weak chain of transmission. The claim of al-Mundhirī—and then al-Haythamī—that “its narrators are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ” is one of their errors, as I have explained in Ghāyat al-Marām (438); whoever wishes to see the details may refer to it.

3951—“Two men came to me and took hold of my upper arms. They brought me to a rugged mountain and said, ‘Climb.’ I said, ‘I am unable to do so.’ They said, ‘We shall make it easy for you.’ So I climbed until, when I reached the middle of the mountain, I heard terrible cries. I said, ‘What are these cries?’ They said, ‘This is the howling of the inhabitants of the Fire.’

Then they took me on, and I saw people suspended by their hamstrings, with the sides of their mouths split open and blood flowing from them. He said: I asked, ‘Who are these?’ He said, ‘These are those who break their fast before it is time for their fast to end.’ Then he said, ‘The Jews and Christians have failed.’” Sulaymān (2) said: “I do not know whether Abū Umāmah heard it from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, or whether it was something of his own opinion.”

“Then they took me on, and I saw people who were the most bloated, the foulest in smell, and the blackest in appearance. I asked, ‘Who are these?’ He said, ‘These are the slain among the disbelievers.’

Then they took me on, and I saw people who were the most bloated and the foulest in smell, their odour like that of latrines. I asked, ‘Who are these?’ He said, ‘These are the men and women who commit fornication.’”