رياض الصالحين
Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 431
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Chapter 50
Chapter context: Hope in Allah's Mercy
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Original Arabic
وعن ابن مسعود، رضي الله عنه ، قال: كنا مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في قبة نحوا من أربعين ، فقال: "أترضون أن تكونوا ربع أهل الجنة؟" قلنا نعم، قال: أترضون أن تكونوا ثلث أهل الجنة؟ قلنا: نعم، قال: "والذي نفسى محمد بيده إني لأرجو أن تكونوا نصف أهل الجنة، وذلك أن الجنة لا يدخلها إلا نفس مسلمة، وما أنتم في أهل الشرك إلا كالشعرة البيضاء في جلد الثور الأسود، أو كالشعرة السوداء في جلد الثور الأحمر" ((متفق عليه)) .
Translation
English translation
'Abdullah bin Mas'ud (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
There were, about forty of us with Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) in a camp when he said, "Aren't you pleased that you will constitute one-fourth of the inhabitants of Jannah?" We said, "Yes". He again said, "Aren't you pleased that you will constitute one-third of the inhabitants of Jannah?". We said: "Yes." Upon this he (ﷺ) said, "By Him in Whose Hand Muhammad's soul is, I hope that you will constitute one-half of the inhabitants of Jannah; and the reason is that only Muslims will be admitted into Jannah; and you are no more compared to the polytheists than as a white hair on the skin of a black ox, or a black hair on the skin of a white ox." [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
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This is Hadith 431 in Riyad as-Salihin. It appears in Book 1, The Book of Miscellany, as in-book entry 431 under the chapter “Hope in Allah's Mercy.”
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