صحيح المرفوع منه، ابن ماجة (٤٣٠٣) // صحيح سنن ابن ماجة برقم (٣٤٧٢) ، ضعيف سنن ابن ماجة برقم (٩٣٧) ، الصحيحة (١٠٨٢) ، السنة لابن أبي عاصم (٧٠٧ و ٧٠٨) //
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2444. Al-'Abbās narrated from Abū Sallām Al-Ḥabashī who said: "Umar bin 'Abdul-'Azīz summoned me so I got a ride on a mule." [He said:] "When he entered upon him, he said: 'O Commander of the Believers! My riding mule was troublesome for me.' So he said: 'O Abū Sallām! I did not want to trouble you, but a Hadīth which you narrated - from Thawbān, from the Prophet ﷺ about the Hawd - was conveyed to me, and I wanted you to narrate it
directly to me.” Abū Sallām said: “Thawbān narrated to me from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ who said: ‘My Hawd (is as large as) from ‘Adan to ‘Ammān of Al-Balqā’, its water is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey. Its cups are as numerous as the stars, whoever drinks one drink from it, he will never be thirsty after that again. The first people to arrive at it are the poor among the Muhājirīn with disheveled heads, dirty clothes, those whom the women of favor would not marry, nor would the doors be opened for them.’ ‘Umar said: ‘But I have married a woman of favor and the doors are opened for me. I married Fātimah bint ‘Abdul-Mālik. I shall certainly not wash my head until it is disheveled, nor wash my garment which touches my body until it becomes dirty.’” (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Gharīb from this route. This Hadīth has been reported from Ma’dān bin Abī Talhah, from Thawbān from the Prophet ﷺ. Abū Sallām Al-Ḥabashī’s name is Mamṭūr, and he is from Ash-Shām, and he is trustworthy.
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‘Adan is a well-known city and ‘Ammān is a Syrian (now Jordanian) city. Balqā’ was a settlement near ‘Ammān. These destinations have only been named just to give an idea of the length and breadth of the Hawd. That is why, on different occasions, the Prophet ﷺ has named different distant points.
We also know from the Hadith that the first group of believers to arrive at the Hawd to quench their thirst will be of the poor emigrants, that would have weathered severe conditions on the earth due to their poverty, yet they stood firm by the religion.
