An Arabi came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked, "What is this pond of yours that you speak of?"He replied, "It is as wast as the distance between Bayda and Busra. Allah supplies it for me with a stream whose two ends no created being knows."Umar bin Khattab exclaimed, "Allahu Akbar!" Then he said, "As for the pond, the poor among the Emigrants who fight in the path of Allah and die in the path of Allah will come to it. I hope that Allah will grant me the stream so that I may drink from it."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "My Lord has promised me that He will admit seventy thousand of my nation into Paradise without reckoning. Then every thousand of them will intercede for another seventy thousand. Then my Lord will scoop with His hands three scoops."Umar exclaimed, "Allahu Akbar!" and said, "The first seventy thousand, Allah will accept their intercession for their fathers, their children, and their clans. I hope that Allah will place me among one of the final scoops."The Arabi asked, "Messenger of Allah, is there fruit in it?"He replied, "Yes, and in it is a tree called Tuba, which corresponds to Firdaws."The man asked, "Which tree of our land does it resemble?"He said, "It does not resemble any tree of your land, but have you been to Sham?"He answered, "No, Messenger of Allah."He said, "It resembles a tree in Sham called the walnut tree. It grows on a single trunk, then its top spreads out."The man asked, "How large is its base?"He replied, "If a young camel from your family's herd were to set out, it would not cross it before its collarbone broke from old age."The man asked, "Are there grapes in it?"He answered, "Yes."The man asked, "How large is a cluster of them?"He replied, "A month's journey for a piebald crow that does not turn aside or weaken."The man asked, "How large is a single grape?"He responded, "Has your father ever slaughtered a large male goat from his flock?"He answered, "Yes."He continued, "And he skinned its hide and gave it to your mother and said, 'Tan this, then cut from it a bucket for us by which we may water our livestock.'"He said, "Yes."He said, "That single grape would suffice me and my household."The Prophet ﷺ added, "And most of your clan as well."
قال جاء أعرابي إلى رسول الله ﷺ فقال: ما حوضك الذي تحدث عنه؟ قال: كما بين البيضاء إلى بصرى، يمدني الله فيه بكراع لا يدري إنسان ممن خلق أين طرفاه فكبر عمر بن الخطاب، فقال: أما الحوض فيرد عليه فقراء المهاجرين الذين يقاتلون في سبيل الله، ويموتون في سبيل الله، فأرجو أن يورثني الكراع فأشرب منه. وقال رسول الله ﷺ: إن ربي وعدني أن يدخل الجنة من أمتي سبعين ألفا بغير حساب، ثم يشفع كل ألف بسبعين ألف، ثم يحثي ربي تبارك وتعالى بكفيه ثلاث حثيات فكبر عمر، وقال: إن السبعين الأولى ليشفعهم الله في آبائهم وأبنائهم وعشائرهم، وأرجو أن يجعلني الله في إحدى الحثيات الأواخر، فقال الأعرابي: يا رسول الله، فيها فاكهة؟ قال: نعم، وفيها شجرة تدعى طوبى، هي تطابق الفردوس فقال: أي شجر أرضنا تشبه؟ قال: ليس تشبه من شجر أرضك ولكن أتيت الشام؟ قال: لا، يا رسول الله. قال: فإنها تشبه شجرة في الشام، تدعى الجوزة، تنبت على ساق واحد، ثم ينتشر أعلاها قال: فما عظم أصلها؟ قال: لو ارتحلت جذعة من إبل أهلك لما قطعتها حتى تنكسرترقوتها هرما قال: فيها عنب؟ قال: نعم قال: ما عظم العنقود منها؟ قال: مسيرة شهر للغراب الأبقع لا ينثني ولا يفتر قال: فما عظم الحبة منه؟ قال: هل ذبح أبوك من غنمه تيسا عظيما؟ قال: نعم. قال: فسلخ إهابها، فأعطاه أمك، فقال: ادبغي هذا، ثم افري لنا منه ذنوبا نروي به ماشيتنا قال: نعم. قال: فإن تلك الحبة تشبعني وأهل بيتي، فقال النبي ﷺ: وعامة عشيرتك.
Reported by Tabarani in al-Awsat (404), and this is his wording, and in al-Kabir (17/126-127), and Ahmad (17642) in an abridged form, all of them via the route of Amir bin Zayd Bakali, who heard Utba bin Abdul-Sulami say, then he related it. Its chain is hasan because of Amir bin Zayd Bakali. The discussion of this is detailed in the book of Iman.It is also reported from Jabir who said, while we were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in our rows during prayer, the prayer of Dhuhr or Asr, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ suddenly reached out for something, then drew back, so the people drew back too. When he finished the prayer, Ubayy bin Kaab said to him, "You did something during the prayer that you had never done before!" He said, "Paradise was shown to me, with its splendor and freshness, and I reached out to take a bunch of grapes from it to bring to you, but I was prevented from reaching it. Had I brought it to you, everyone between heaven and earth would have eaten from it without it diminishing at all. Then the Fire was shown to me, and when I felt its scorching heat I drew back from it. Most of those I saw in it were women, who, if entrusted with a secret, would disclose it, and if asked for something, would refuse to give it, and if they asked for something, would demand it insistently." Husayn said, "And if given something, they would not show gratitude." "And I saw in it Luhay bin Amr dragging his intestines in the Fire, and the one I saw most resembling him was Mabad bin Aktham Kaabi." Mabad said, "Messenger of Allah, should I fear for myself because of his resemblance to me, given that he is an ancestor of mine?" He said, "No, you are a believer and he is a disbeliever." Husayn said, and he was the first of the Arabs to lead them into the worship of idols. Husayn said, he added, "I drew back from it, for had I not done so, it would have overwhelmed you."Reported by Ahmad (14800) and Abd bin Humayd (1036), both from Zakariya bin Adi, who said, Ubaydullah bin Amr told us, from Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Aqeel, from Jabir, who said, then he related it. In the chain is Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Aqeel, who in my view is one whose hadith is hasan, but he alone transmitted certain wordings in the hadith of Jabir that no one else corroborated.