Everyone Shall Enter Hell…

Surah 19:71 Not one of you but will pass through it: this is, with thy Lord, a Decree which must be accomplished.

Imam Ahmad narrated that Abu Sumaya said, "We differed about the meaning of ‘Passing through it’ (wari-duha). For some of us said that no believer will enter hell and others said all (people) shall enter it and then Allah will save those who have done righteousness. Then I met Jabir Ibn Abdallah and I informed him that we differed about the meaning of, ‘Pass through it,’ and he replied that, "Everyone Shall Enter It."

Also Sulaiman Ibn Murrah said that everyone shall enter it (hell). Then he placed his fingers near his ears and said, "I would have remained silent had I not heard the apostle of Allah -pbuh- say, ‘There shall not remain a righteous or sinful person but shall enter hell. To the believer the fire will be cool and pleasant as it was to Abraham to the point that hell will be noisy because the believers are cold. Then Allah will save those who have avoided (evil) and greatly torment the sinners in it.’"

Abdallah Ibn Rawaha placed his head on his wife’s lap and began to weep, so his wife began to weep also. So he asked her, "Why are you weeping?" She responded, "I saw you weeping and so I started to weep." He said, "I remembered the saying of Allah – who is glorified and exalted- (Surah 19:71) ‘Not one of you but will pass through it,’ and I don’t know if I will be saved from it or not." [Abdullah ibn Rawaha was an ansar of Madinah who was martyred at Yarmuk after taking the banner from Jafar ibn Abu Talib who took it from Zaid ibn Haritha. Also known as the sahaba who was walking outside the mosque and sat down when he heard the Prophet SAWS say be seated because he said he could not bear hearing the Prophet SAWS give an order without him putting it into action immediately. ]

Al-Hassan Al-Basri said, "A man said to his brother ‘Have you been told that you shall enter hell?’ The brother answered ‘Yes.’ He then asked, ‘Have you also been told that you shall exit from it?’ The brother responded ‘No.’ So he asked, ‘Then why the laughter?’ The brother responded, ‘I have not seen that person laugh until he joined Allah.’

Ibn Kathir

~ by Hammad on June 23, 2009.