CHAPTER: THE DESCRIPTION OF HELL AND THE INTENSITY OF ITS HEAT AND TORMENTS
No. 6810
Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The Hell would he brought on that da (the Day of judgment) with seventy bridles and every bridle would be controlled by seventy angels.
No. 6811
Abil Huraira reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as seying: The fire which sons of Adam burn is only one-seventieth part of the Fire of Hell. His Companions said: By Allaah, even ordinary fire would have been enough (to burn people). Thereupon he said: It is sixty-nine parts in excess of (the heat of) fire in this world each of them being equivalent to their heat.
No. 6812
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abn Huraira through another chain of transmitters with a slight variation of wording.
No. 6813
Abu Huraira reported: We were in the company of Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) that we heard a terrible sound. Thereupon Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Do you know what (sound) is this? We said: Allaah and His Messenger know best. Thereupon he said: That is a stone which was thrown seventy years before in Hell and it has'been constantly slipping down and now it has reached its base.
No. 6814
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abfi Huraira with the same chain of transmitters but with this change of wording that the Prophet (may. sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: It reached at its base and you heard its sound.
No. 6815
Samura b. Jundub reported Allaah's Prophet (may peace -be upon him) as saying: There will be some to whose ankels the fire will reach, some to whose knees, some to whose waist the fire will reach, and some to whose collar-bone the fire will reach.
No. 6816
Samura b. Jundub reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: There would be among them those to whom the fire will reach up to their ankels and to some of them the fire would reach their knees and to some it would reach their waists and to some it would reach up to their collar-bones.
No. 6817
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Sa'id with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.