Hadith 88

had Killed off inhabitants of the earth, and inhabitants of sky of the world, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth, and the sixth, and a multiple of that. Then He-azwj would Kill off inhabitants of the seventh sky. Then there would remain like what He-azwj had Created the creatin, and like what He-azwj had Killed off inhabitants of the earth, and inhabitants of the skies up to the seventh, and a multiple of that. Then He-azwj Kill off Mikaeel-as. Then there would remain like what He-azwj had Created the creation, and like that all of it, and a multiple of all of that. Then He-azwj will kill off Jibraeel-as. Then there would remain like what He-azwj had Created the creation, and like that all of it, and a multiple of that all of it. Then He-azwj will Kill off Israfeel-as. Then there would remain like what He-azwj had Created the creation, and like that all of it, and a multiple of that all of it. Then He-azwj will Kill off the Angel of death’. He-asws said: ‘Then the Blessed and Exalted would Say: “For whom is the Kingdom today? ” [40: 16]. He-azwj would Respond to Himself-azwj: “For Allah, the One, the Subduer! [40: 16]. Where are the tyrants? Where are the one who claimed to be gods with Me-azwj? Where are the arrogant ones? ” And approximate to this. Then there would remain similar to what He-azwj Created the creation, and like that all of it, and a multiple of that. Then He-azwj Resurrect the creation and Blow into the Trumpet’. Ubeyd Bin Zurara said, ‘I said, ‘This matter of bring into being, would that be longer? ’
He-asws said: ‘What is your view of what had existed before He-azwj Created the creation, was it longer or that? ’ He-asws said: ‘Did you (even) know of it? ’ I said ‘No’. He-asws said: ‘So that would be like this’’. [95]