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1919

“I, (Abu Hurairah) said, ‘There was an occasion when we were with the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, when he was invited for a meal and offered a shoulder of lamb. He enjoyed the shoulder and spoke to us as he ate saying: I will be the master of all people on the Day of Resurrection. Do you know how? On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will assemble all mankind, the first and the last, on a wide plain so that they will all be visible and able to hear the caller.

On that Day the sun will be very near mankind and they will undergo tremendous suffering and grief. They will say among themselves: Do you realize what we are in and what has befallen us? Can you find someone who might intercede for you with your Lord? Some will say to the other: Adam is your father, and they will go to him and say: O Adam you are the father of mankind, Allah created you with His own Hands and breathed into you of His spirit and commanded the angels to bow down towards you and let you live in the Garden. Won't you intercede for us with your Lord? Don't you see our condition and the intense suffering that has overtaken us? Adam will say: My Lord is angry today, in a way in which He has never been angered before, and He will never be angered like it again. He forbade me to eat from a certain tree but I disobeyed Him. I am afraid for myself, for myself, for myself. Go to someone else. Go to Noah ………..

Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to Abu Hurairah who related that the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, said this.