Bayan Al-Hadith › Sahih Muslim › Characteristics of the Day of Judgment, Paradise, and Hell
Sahih Muslim 2805aصحيح مسلم 2805a
حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " يَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى لأَهْوَنِ أَهْلِ النَّارِ عَذَابًا لَوْ كَانَتْ لَكَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا أَكُنْتَ مُفْتَدِيًا بِهَا فَيَقُولُ نَعَمْ فَيَقُولُ قَدْ أَرَدْتُ مِنْكَ أَهْوَنَ مِنْ هَذَا وَأَنْتَ فِي صُلْبِ آدَمَ أَنْ لاَ تُشْرِكَ - أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ - وَلاَ أُدْخِلَكَ النَّارَ فَأَبَيْتَ إِلاَّ الشِّرْكَ " .
Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and High, would say to one who shall have to undergo the least torture (on the Day of Resurrection): Would you like to go as ransom if you had all worldly riches; he would say: Yes. Allah would say to him: When you were in the loins of Adam, I demanded from you something easier than this that you should not associate anything with Me. (The narrator says): I think He also said: I would not cause you to enter Hell-Fire but you defied and attributed Divinity (to others besides Me).
Grading
Sahih (authentic by the consensus of hadith scholars)
Chain of narrators
عبيد الله بن معاذ ← معاذ بن معاذ بن نصر ← شعبة بن الحجاج بن الورد ← عبد الملك بن حبيب ← أنس بن مالك بن النضر
Ubaydullah ibn Mu'adh → Mu'adh ibn Mu'adh ibn Nasr → Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj ibn al-Ward → Abd al-Malik ibn Habib → Anas bin Malik