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|H432 “There were approximately forty Companions with the
Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, inside a tent, when he
asked them: „Would it please you if you were to become a quarter of
the dwellers of Paradise?‟ They answered: „Yes!‟ Then he asked:

„Would you be pleased if you were to become a third of the dwellers
of Paradise?‟ They answered: „Yes!‟ Then he said: „By Him in whose
Hands is the life of Muhammad, I hope that you will become half of
the dwellers of Paradise. None will enter Paradise except a soul that

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is in complete submission to Allah; and your proportion among the
unbeliever is like that of a white hair on the hide of a black ox, or
that of black hair on the hide of a red ox.‟"

|Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to ibn Mas'ud who related this hadith