• current selection in your language

FIRST AND THE LAST TO EMERGE FROM HELL

1937

“I know the last one to emerge from the Fire and the last one to enter Paradise. The man will emerge from the Fire crawling. Allah, the Mighty, the Glorified, will say to him, ‘Go, enter Paradise.’ He will go to Paradise and it will appear to be full to him. So he will turn back and say, ‘O Lord, I have done that and it is full.’ Allah will say, ‘Go, enter Paradise.’ Again he will go and imagine it is full. Once again he will turn back and say, ‘Lord, I have found that it is full.’ Allah will tell him again, ‘Go, enter Paradise, you have equal to that of the whole world and ten times more like it, or, you have ten times the like of the world.’ The man will say, ‘Do you jest with me, and laugh at me although You are the King?’

Ibn Mas'ud, the narrator, said that at this I saw the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, laugh until his back teeth could be seen and he was saying, ‘Such will be the last of the inhabitants of Paradise.’"

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