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2575. Al-Ḥasan said: "While he was on this pulpit – the pulpit of Al-Baṣrah – 'Utbah bin Ghazwān narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Indeed a giant rock can be thrown
from the brink of Hell and it will continue to fall into it for seventy years without reaching the bottom of it.” He said: “‘Umar used to say: ‘Increase in your remembrance of the Fire, for its heat is extreme, its bottom is distant, and its whips are of iron.’” (Saḥīḥ)
Abū ‘Eisā said: We do not know of Al-Ḥasan hearing from ‘Utbah bin Ghazwān. ‘Utbah bin Ghazwān only went to Al-Baṣrah during the time of ‘Umar, and Al-Ḥasan was born during the last two years of ‘Umar’s Khilāfah.
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It is a sound Hadīth, also reported in Saḥīḥ Muslim through another chain. If something weighty is dropped down it travels fast downwards. The depth of Hell, however, is so great that even a heavy rock will travel for seventy years and will not reach the bottom of the pit.
