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English translation
2588. 'Abdullāh bin 'Amr bin Al-'Ās narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "If a pellet like this one, and he pointed to one like Al-Jumjumah[1] were to be dropped from the heavens to the earth – and it is the distance of traveling five hundred years – it would reach the earth before night-fall. But if it were dropped from the top of the chain[2] it would travel for forty years, day and night, before it would reach its foundation or bottom." (Hasan)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] The chain for this Hadīth is Hasan Sahīh. Sa'eed bin Yazīd is from Al-Miṣr; Al-Laith bin Sa'd and more than one of the A'immah reported from him.
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Footnotes
1
[1] It is a small yellow seed, and the name comes from the word for the cranial cavity. Some interpreted it to refer to that. See Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi.
2
[2] See Al-Hāqqah 69:32.
Commentary
It means that so colossal is the depth of Hell that if a ball or pellet capable of covering the distance of five hundred years in a day is hurled into it, it will not reach its bottom even in forty years.
