Hadith 464

(The book) ‘Al Durou Al Waqiya’ – Abu Ja’far Ahmad Al Qummi mentioned, ‘In the book ‘Zohad Al-Nabi-saww’, ‘Jibraeel-as came to him-saww at midday, during a time he-as was not coming to him-saww during it, and he-as was of changed colour, and the Prophet-saww used to hear his-as hiss and his-as tinkle, but he-saww did not hear it on that day. The Prophet-saww said to him-as: ‘O Jibraeel-as! What is the matter with you-as coming to me‑saww in a time you-as have come to me-as during it, and I-saww see your-as colour to have changed, and I-saww used to hear your-as hiss and your-as tinkle, but I-saww did not hear it (this time)? ’
He-as said: ‘I-as have come when Allah-azwj Commanded the blowers (bellows) of the Fire, and these were placed upon the Fire’. The Prophet-saww said: ‘Inform me-saww about the Fire, O Jibraeel-as, when did Allah-azwj the Exalted Create it? ’
He-as said: ‘Allah-azwj the Glorious Ignited upon it for a thousand years, so it reddened. Then He-azwj Ignited upon it for a thousand years, so it whitened. Then He-azwj Ignited upon it for a thousand years, so it blackened. So, it is black, dark. Its embers are not illuminating nor are its flames being extinguished. By the One-azwj Who Sent you-saww with the truth as a Prophet-saww! Even if the likes of a pin prick were to emerge from it unto people of the earth, they would be incinerated to their last one, and if a man were to enter Hell, then brought out from it, it would destroy people of the earth entirely when they would be looking at him at what they would be seeing (what is) with him. And even if a cubit of the chain which Allah-azwj the Exalted has Mentioned it in His-azwj Book were to be placed upon entirety of the mountains of the world, they would dissolve up to the last of them; and even if people of the earth were to look at one of the nineteen keepers, they would die at the time they look at him, and even if a cloth from the clothing of the people of Hell were to emerge to the earth, the people of earth would die from the stench of its smell’. The Prophet-saww knelt and lowered his-saww head crying, and like that was Jibraeel-la. They-as did not stop crying until an Angel from the sky call out to them-as: ‘O Jibraeel-as, and O Muhammad-saww! Allah-azwj has Secured both of you-as from disobeying Him-azwj, so He-azwj might have to Punish you-as! ’
Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘I-saww saw a man in my-saww dream whose register (of deeds) had collapsed in his left hand, Fear of Allah-azwj came to him, and it took his register and made it to be in his right hand; and I saw a man from my-saww community to have collapsed into the Fire, so there came to him his tear which he had cried from fearing Allah-azwj, so it extracted him from that’’. [235]