The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "As for the people of the Fire who are its true inhabitants, they neither die in it nor live. But there are people whom the Fire touches because of their sins" — or he said, "because of their wrongdoings — so it puts them to death. Once they have become charcoal, permission is granted for intercession. They are then brought forth in groups and scattered upon the rivers of Paradise. It is then said, 'People of Paradise, pour water over them.' They sprout like seeds growing in the silt left by a flood."A man from the gathering remarked, "It is as though the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had once lived in the desert."
قال رسول الله ﷺ: أما أهل النار الذين هم أهلها، فإنهم لا يموتون فيها ولا يحيون، ولكن ناس أصابتهم النار بذنوبهم ( أو قال: بخطاياهم)، فأماتهم إماتة، حتى إذا كانوا فحما، أذن بالشفاعة فجيء بهم ضبائر ضبائر، فبقوا على أنهار الجنة، ثم قيل: يا أهل الجنة! أفيضوا عليهم، فينبتون نبات الحبة تكون في حميل السيل. فقال رجل من القوم: كأن رسول الله ﷺ قد كان بالبادية.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Faith (185), from Nasr bin Ali Jahdami, who said, "Bishr, meaning the son of Mufaddal, narrated to us, from Abu Maslama, from Abu Nadra, from Abu Saeed," and he mentioned it.