353 - al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us from Aḥmad b. Abī al-Ḥawārī, who said: I heard Abū Sulaymān say: "A houri from among the houris sends a servant from among her servants, saying: 'Woe to you! Go and see what has been done with the friend of God Almighty.' She finds him delayed, so she sends another servant, and finds them both delayed, so she sends another servant. Then the first one comes and says: 'I left him at the Scale.' The second comes and says: 'I left him at the Path (Sirat).' The third comes and says: 'He has entered the gate of Paradise.' So joy meets her, and she stands at the gate of Paradise. When he arrives, she embraces him, and there enters his nostrils from her scent that which will never depart."
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