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4010. It was narrated that Jābir said: "When the emigrants who had crossed the sea came back to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, he said: 'Why don't you tell me of the strange things that you saw in the land of Abyssinia?' Some young men among them said: 'Yes, O Messenger of Allāh. While we were sitting, one of their elderly nuns came past, carrying a vessel of water on her head. She passed by some of their youth, one of whom placed his hand between her shoulders and pushed her. She fell on her knees and her vessel broke. When she stood up, she turned to him and said: "You will come to know, O traitor, that when Allāh sets up the Footstool and gathers the first and the last, and hands and feet speak of what they used to earn,
you will come to know your case and my case in His presence soon." The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'She spoke the truth, she spoke the truth. How can Allāh purify any people (of sin) when they do not support their weak from their strong?'" (Hasan)
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'Emigrants who had crossed the sea' here means those who emigrated to Ethiopia because they reached Ethiopia crossing the Red Sea.
The previous Divine books also mentioned about Paradise and Hell. In the era of the Prophet ﷺ, while these Books had been changed, still they were consisting of many facts. But many other changes have occurred in the contemporary Bibles and the correct matters became very rare.
A truth by a non-Muslim also should be accepted.
