335 - Azhar b. Marwān narrated to me: ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿArāda al-Shaybānī narrated to us: al-Qāsim b. al-Muṭayyib narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, from Ḥudhayfa, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "Gabriel, peace be upon him, came to me, and in his palm was a mirror, like the most beautiful and luminous of mirrors, and in its center was a black spot. I said, 'What is this spot that I see in it?' He said, 'This is Friday (al-Jumuʿa).' I said, 'And what is Friday?' He said, 'A great day among the days of your Lord, Exalted is He. I will inform you of its virtue and honor in the world, and what is hoped for its people therein, and I will inform you of its name in the Hereafter. As for its honor and virtue in the world, God, Mighty and Majestic, gathered the affair of creation on it. As for what is hoped for its people therein, there is an hour in it which no Muslim male or female slave coincides with, asking God, Mighty and Majestic, for any good during it, except that He grants it to them. As for its honor and virtue in the Hereafter, and its name: when God, Mighty and Majestic, sends the people of Paradise to Paradise and the people of Hellfire to Hellfire, these days and nights will pass over them, though there will be no night or day therein, yet God, Mighty and Majestic, will make known the measure of that and its hours. So when it is Friday, at the time when the people of Friday would go out to their Friday prayer, a caller will call out to the people of Paradise: "O people of Paradise, go out to the Valley of Abundance (Wādī al-Mazīd)."'

He said: And the Valley of Abundance—none knows its expanse, its length, and its width except God, Mighty and Majestic. In it are dunes of musk whose peaks reach into the sky—meaning that which was altered—and it is whiter than this heart of yours. Then the youths of the prophets, blessings of God be upon them, will come out with pulpits, and the youths of the believers will come out with chairs of ruby. When they are set down for them and the people take their seats, God, Mighty and Majestic, will send a wind called 'the Stirrer' (al-Muthīra), which will stir up that musk, making it enter from beneath their garments and exit from their faces and their hair. That wind knows better how to handle that musk than the wife of any of you would if she were given all the perfume on the face of the earth and told, 'Let no scarcity hold you back.' That wind would be more knowledgeable in what it does with that musk than that woman if she were given that perfume. He said: Then God, Mighty and Majestic, will reveal to the bearers of His Throne, and they will place it among them. The first thing they will hear from Him is: 'Where are My servants who obeyed Me in the unseen without seeing Me, believed My messengers, and followed My command? Let them ask Me, for this is the Day of Abundance.' They will unite upon a single word: 'Our Lord, we are pleased with You, so be pleased with us.' God, Mighty and Majestic, will reply to them: 'O people of Paradise, had I not been pleased with you, I would not have settled you in My abode. So ask Me, for this is the Day of Abundance.' They will unite upon a single word: 'My Lord, Your Face, that we may look at it.' Then God, Mighty and Majestic, will lift those veils and manifest Himself to them, and something of His light will envelop them such that, had He not decreed that they would not burn, they would have burned from what enveloped them of His light. Then He will say to them: 'Return to your dwellings.'

So they will return to their dwellings, and He will have given each one of them double of what they previously had. They will return to their spouses, having become unrecognizable to them, and their spouses unrecognizable to them, due to what enveloped them of His light. When they return, the light will recede until they return to the forms they were in. Their spouses will say to them, 'You left us in one form and returned in another.' They will say, 'That is because God, Mighty and Majestic, manifested Himself to us, and we looked at Him.' He said: 'Indeed, by God, no creation can encompass Him, but He showed them of His greatness and majesty whatever He wished to show them.' So he mentioned his statement, 'and we looked at Him,' while they revel in the musk of Paradise and its bliss, receiving every seven days double of what they previously had. The Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "That is the statement of God, Mighty and Majestic: {And no soul knows what has been hidden for them of comfort for eyes as reward for what they used to do}."