It is said: They are stones of brimstone (sulfur), and they are the most intense of stones — according to what has reached us — in heat when they are heated.
503- As Abū Kurayb narrated to us, he said: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us, on the authority of Misʿar, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Maysarah al-Zarrād, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Sābiṭ, on the authority of ʿAmr b. Maymūn, on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd, regarding His statement: "whose fuel is men and stones", he said: They are stones of brimstone, which God created on the day He created the heavens and the earth in the lowest heaven, preparing them for the disbelievers.
504- Al-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā narrated to us, he said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq informed us, he said: Ibn ʿUyaynah informed us, on the authority of Misʿar, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Malik al-Zarrād, on the authority of ʿAmr b. Maymūn, on the authority of Ibn Masʿūd regarding His statement: "whose fuel is men and stones", he said: Stones of brimstone, God made them however He willed (1).
Notes
- (1) Report 503, 504: Misʿar—with a kasra on the mīm, sukūn on the sīn, and fatha on the unpointed ʿayn—is Ibn Kidām—with a kasra on the kāf and a lightened dāl; he is trustworthy (thiqa) and well-known, one of the prominent figures. ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Maysara al-Hilālī al-Kūfī al-Zarrād—named after the crafting of coats of mail (zurūd)—is a trustworthy narrator who transmitted many hadiths, from among the younger Successors (Tabi'i). ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sābiṭ al-Jumaḥī al-Makkī: a trustworthy Successor (Tabi'i). ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Awdī: from among the senior Mukhaḍram Successors (Tabi'i); he was a Muslim during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of God be upon him, but did not see him.
And this report was narrated by al-Ṭabarī through these two chains of transmission and through the coming chain of transmission: 507. In the first and third, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Maysara narrates it from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sābiṭ from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn; and in the second: 504, "ʿAbd al-Malik al-Zarrād from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn" directly, omitting "ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sābiṭ". If this chain of transmission stood alone, it would be construed as continuous due to contemporaneousness, for ʿAbd al-Malik al-Zarrād narrates from Ibn ʿUmar who died in the year 74, and ʿAmr ibn Maymūn died in the year 74 or 75. However, these two chains of transmission: 503, 504 indicate that he only narrated it from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sābiṭ from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn.
The report was also narrated by al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak 2:261, via Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd from Misʿar from ʿAbd al-Malik al-Zarrād from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sābiṭ from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn from Ibn Masʿūd. This is a third route supporting the two routes containing the addition of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān in the chain of transmission. Al-Ḥākim said: "This hadith is Sahih (Authentic) according to the conditions of the two Sheikhs, though they did not record it." Al-Dhahabī concurred with him. Ibn Kathīr mentioned it 1:110–111 from the narration of al-Ṭabarī, attributing it to Ibn Abī Ḥātim and al-Ḥākim, and quoting his grading of it as authentic without taking exception to it. Al-Suyūṭī mentioned it 1:36 and added its attribution to: ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, al-Firyābī, Hannād ibn al-Sarī in Kitāb al-Zuhd, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, Ibn al-Mundhir, al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr, and al-Bayhaqī in al-Shuʿab.
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