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[479] 326 - (...) Ma'bad bin Hilāl Al-'Anazī said: "We went to Anas bin Mālik and took Thâbit with us to introduce us. We came to him and he was praying Ad-Duha. Thâbit asked permission for us to enter and we entered upon him. He seated Thâbit with him on his bedding, and he said to him: 'O Abū Hamzah, your brothers from Al-Baṣrah are asking you to tell them the Hadīth about intercession.' He said: 'Muḥammad ﷺ told us: 'On the Day of Resurrection, the people will surge against one another like waves, then they will go to Ādam, ﷺ, and will say: 'Intercede for your offspring.' He will say: 'I am not capable of that, rather you should go to Ibrâhîm [ﷺ], for he is the Khalîlullâh (close friend of Allâh), the Most High.' So they will go to Ibrâhîm, [ﷺ], and he will say: 'I am not capable of that, rather you should go to Mûsâ [ﷺ], for he is the one with whom Allâh, the Most High, spoke.' They will go to Mûsâ - [ﷺ], and he will say: 'I am not capable of that, rather you should go to 'Eisâ, [ﷺ] for he is a spirit from Allâh and His word.' So they will go to 'Eisâ [ﷺ] and he will say: 'I am not capable of that, rather go to Muḥammad [ﷺ].' "So they will come to me, and I will say: 'I am for that.' I will go and ask permission to speak to my Lord, and permission will be granted to me. I will stand before Him, and will praise Him with words of praise that I am not able to say now, but Allâh, the Most High, will inspire me therewith. Then I will fall down prostrating to Him, and it will be said to me: 'O Muḥammad, raise your head. Speak, you will be heard; ask, it will be given to you; intercede and your intercession will be accepted.' I will say: 'O Lord, my Ummah! My Ummah!' It will be said to me: 'Go, and whoever has in his heart faith the weight of a grain of wheat or barley, bring him out therefrom.' So I will go and do that, then I will come back to my Lord, the Most High, and I will praise Him with those words of praise, then I will fall down prostrating to Him, and it will be said to me: 'O Muḥammad, raise your head. Speak, you will be heard; ask, it will be given to you; intercede and your intercession will be accepted.' I will say: 'O Lord, my Ummah! My Ummah!' It will be said to me: 'Go, and whoever has in his heart faith the weight of a grain of mustard-seed, bring him out therefrom.' So I will go and do that, then I will come back to my Lord and I will praise Him with those words of praise, then I will fall down prostrating to Him, and it will be said to me: 'O Muḥammad, raise your head. Speak, you will be heard; ask, it will be given to you; intercede and your intercession will be accepted.' I will say: 'O Lord, my Ummah! My Ummah!' It will be said to me: 'Go, and whoever has in his heart faith that is smaller, smaller, smaller than a grain of mustard-seed, bring him out of the Fire.' And I will go and do that." (Ma'bad bin Hilâl Al-'Anazî continued) "This is the Hadîth of Anas that he narrated to us. Then we left him and when we were in the upper part of Al-Jabbân we said: 'Why don't we go to Al-Hasan and greet him, while he is hiding in the house of Abû Khalifah?' So we went to him and greeted him, and we said: 'O Abû Sa'eed, we have come from the house of your brother Abû Hamzah, and we have never heard anything like the Hadîth he told us about intercession.' He said: 'Tell me.' So we told him the Hadîth and he said: 'Tell me more.' We said: 'He did not tell us any more than that.' He said: 'He narrated it to us twenty years ago when he was in good health, and (now) he has omitted something, but I do not know whether the Shaikh forgot, or if he did not want to tell it to you lest you become complacent.' We said to him: 'Tell us.' He smiled and said: "Man is created of haste.[1] - I only said that to you because I want to narrate the Hadîth to you. He (ﷺ) said: "Then I will go back to my Lord a fourth time and I will praise Him with those words of praise, then I will fall down prostrating to Him, and it will be said to me: 'O Muḥammad, raise your head. Speak, you will be heard; ask, it will be given to you; intercede and your intercession will be accepted.' I will say: 'O Lord, give me permission (to intercede) regarding those who said: 'Lâ ilâha illallâh.' It will be said: 'That is not for you, but by My Might, Majesty, Greatness and Power, I shall bring forth whoever said: 'Lâ ilâha illallâh.'" He (Ma'bad bin Hilâl Al-'Anazî) said: "I bear witness that Al-Hasan narrated this to us, and that he heard Anas bin Mâlik, I think he said twenty years earlier, when he was in good health."