عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضى الله عنه، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ، قَالَ: «نَارُكُمْ هَذِهِ الَّتِي يُوقِدُ ابْنُ آدَمَ جُزْءٌ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ جُزْءًا مِنْ حَرِّ جَهَنَّمَ» قَالُوا: وَاللهِ إِنْ كَانَتْ لَكَافِيَةً يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ! قَالَ: «فَإِنَّهَا فُضِّلَتْ عَلَيْهَا بِتِسْعَةٍ وَسِتِّينَ جُزْءًا، كُلُّهَا مِثْلُ حَرِّهَا».
Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
1. This fire of yours which a person lights up has the heat of one out of seventy portions of Hell’s heat. 2. People said: By God, it would have been sufficient [as it is], Messenger of God. 3. He said: It is made greater by sixty-nine portions, each is similar to it in heat.
Related by al-Bukhari, 3265; Muslim, 2843.
Abu Hurayrah ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr al-Dawsī embraced Islam in the year in which the Battle of Khaybar took place, i.e. Year 7 of the Hijri calendar. He was the Prophet’s companion who narrated the largest number of his hadiths, because he committed himself to remain close to the Prophet. He was keen to learn the Prophet’s hadiths and he remained for a long time in Madinah. He died in Year 58 AH, 678 CE.
