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2558. 'Aṭiyyah narrated from Abū Sa'eed in Marfū' form: "When it is the Day of Resurrection, Death shall be brought as a mixed black-white ram. It shall be stood between Paradise and the Fire, and then slaughtered while they watch. If anyone were to die of joy, then surely the people of Paradise would die, and if anyone were to die of grief, then surely the people of the Fire would die." (Ḍa'īf) [Abū 'Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is Ḥasan [Ṣaḥīḥ]. There are many narrations such as this reported from the Prophet ﷺ mentioning Ar-Ru'yah (seeing Allāh) and that the people will see their Lord, and mentioning the Foot and similar to these things. And the chosen approach concerning this with the people of knowledge from the A'immah such as Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Mālik bin Anas, Sufyān bin 'Uyainah, Ibn Al-Mubārak, Waki' and other than them, is that they report these narrations then say: "We report these Aḥādīth as they are, and we believe in them, and it is not to be said, 'how?'" This is the path and approach which the people of Ḥadīth have chosen – that they report these narrations as they have come, they are believed in, they are not explained,[1] doubts are not to be cast upon them, and it is not to be said "how?" – This is the order of the people of knowledge which they chose and took as their approach. The meaning of his statement in the Ḥadīth: "And He will make them recognize Him" is "He manifests Himself to them in His Glory."