Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2584
حَدَّثَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، أَخْبَرَنَا رِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، حَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ دَرَّاجٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: (كَالْمُهْلِ ) كَعَكَرِ الزَّيْتِ فَإِذَا قُرِّبَ إِلَيْهِ سَقَطَتْ فَرْوَةُ وَجْهِهِ فِيهِ " . وَبِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لِسُرَادِقِ النَّارِ أَرْبَعَةُ جُدُرٍ كِثَفُ كُلِّ جِدَارٍ مِثْلُ مَسِيرَةِ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً " . وَبِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لَوْ أَنَّ دَلْوًا مِنْ غَسَّاقٍ يُهَرَاقُ فِي الدُّنْيَا لأَنْتَنَ أَهْلُ الدُّنْيَا " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ إِنَّمَا نَعْرِفُهُ مِنْ حَدِيثِ رِشْدِينَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ وَفِي رِشْدِينَ مَقَالٌ وَقَدْ تُكُلِّمَ فِيهِ مِنْ قِبَلِ حِفْظِهِ . وَمَعْنَى قَوْلِهِ " كِثَفُ كُلِّ جِدَارٍ " يَعْنِي غِلَظَهُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri reported from the Prophet, explaining ‘like molten brass’: ‘Like the dregs of oil; when it is brought near him, the skin of his face falls into it.’ With the same chain, the Prophet said: ‘The enclosure of the Fire has four walls, and the thickness of each wall is the distance of a forty-year journey.’ With the same chain, he said: ‘If a bucket of ghassaq were poured into this world, it would make the people of this world stink.’ Abu ‘Isa said: ‘We know this hadith only through the narration of Rushdayn ibn Sa‘d. Rushdayn has been criticized, particularly regarding his retention.’ He explained that ‘the thickness of each wall’ means its thickness.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source contains three reports under one chain; the English witness omits the report about the Fire’s four walls and labels the ghassaq report Da‘if, a grade absent from the Arabic here. Ghassaq is retained as a term for the foul fluid. The final gloss explains kithaf as thickness.