CHAPTER: PERTAINING TO THE WORDS OF THE APOSTLE OF ALLAAH (SALLALLAAHU ALAYHI WA SALLAM):" I WOULD BE THE FIRST AMONG PEOPLE TO INTERCEDE IN THE PARADISE AND AMONG THE APOSTLES I WOULD HAVE THE LARGEST FOLLOWING"
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Anas b. Malik reported: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: I would be the first among people to intercede in the Paradise and amongst the Prophets I would have the largest following (on the Day of Resurrection).
Anas b. Malik reported: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Amongst the Prophets I would have the largest following on the Day of Resurrec tion, and I would be the first to knock at the door of Paradise.
Anas b. Malik said: The Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: I would be the first intercessor in the Paradise and no Prophet amongst the Prophets has been testified (by such a large number of people) as I have been testified. And verily there woald be an Prophet among the Prophets who would be testified to by only one man from his people.
Anas b. Malik reported: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: I will come to the gate of Paradise on the Day of Resurrection. and would seek its opening. and the keeper would say: Who art thou? I would say: Muhammad. He would then say: It is for thee that I have been ordered, and not to open it for anyone before thee.
Abu Huraira reported: Verity the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: There is for every Prophet a (special) prayer with which he would pray. I wish I could reserve, my prayer for intercession of my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection.
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: There is for every Prophet a prayer, and I intend (if Allaah so willed) that I would reserve my prayer for the intercession of my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection.
Amr b. Abu Sufyan reported: Abu Huraira said to Ka'b al-Ahbar that the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) had said: For every Prophet there Is a (special) prayer by which he would pray (to his Lord). I, however, intend (if Allaah so willed) that I would reserve my prayer for the intercession of my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection. Ka'b said to Abu Huraira: Did you hear this from the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam)? Abu Huraira said: Yes.
Abu Huraira said: The Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: There is for every Prophet a prayer which is granted, but every prophet showed haste in his prayer. I have, however, reserved my prayer for the intercession of my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection, and it would be granted, if Allaah so willed, in case of everyone amongst my Ummah provided he dies without associating anything with Allaah.
Abu Huraira said: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Every Messenger is endowed with a prayer which is granted and by which he would (pray to his Lord) and it would he granted for him. I have, however, reserved my prayer for the intercession of my Ummab on the Day of Resurrection.
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: There was for every Prophet a prayer with which he prayed for his Ummah and it was granted to him; but I wish, if Allaah so wills, to defer my prayer for the intercession of my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection.
Anas b. Malik reported: Verily the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: There is for every Prophet a prayer with which he prays (to Allaah) for his Ummah. I have reserved my prayer for the intercession of my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection.
Mis'ar transmitted it with the same chain of narrators from Qatada except that in the hadith narrated by Waki' (the Prophet) said:" He was endowed," and in the hadith reported by Abu Usama (the words are):" It is reported from the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam)."
Muhammad b. 'Abd al-A'la reported it to me: Mu'tamir narrated to us on the authority of his father who transmitted it liom Anas that verity the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said, and then narrated the hadith like the one transmitted by Qatada on the authority of Anas.
Abu Zubair heard Jabir b. Abdullah reporting it from the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam): For every Prophet was a prayer with which he prayed (to his Lord) for his Ummah, but I have reserved my prayer for the intercession of my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection.