Utba bin Ghazwan delivered a sermon to us. He praised Allah and glorified Him, then said,"To proceed. This world has announced its departure and turned away in haste. Nothing remains of it except a last trace, like the last drops left in a cup that its owner drains. You are moving from it to an abode that has no end, so move on with the best provisions available to you. We have been told that a stone is dropped from the edge of Hell and falls through it for seventy years without ever reaching its bottom. By Allah, it shall be filled. Are you astonished?We have also been told that the distance between two of the door-leaves of Paradise is a journey of forty years, yet a day will come upon it when it is packed with the press of the crowd.I have seen myself as one of seven men with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. We had no food but the leaves of trees, until the corners of our mouths became sore..."The hadith continues at length.
خطبنا عتبة بن غزوان، فحمد الله وأثنى عليه، ثم قال: أما بعد، فإن الدنيا قد آذنت بصرم، وولت حذاء، ولم يبق منها إلا صبابة كصبابة الإناء، يتصابها صاحبها، وإنكم منتقلون منها إلى دار لا زوال لها، فانتقلوا بخير ما بحضرتكم، فإنه قد ذكر لنا أن الحجر يلقى من شفة جهنم، فيهوي فيها سبعين عاما، لا يدرك لها قعرا، والله لتملأن، أفعجبتم؟ ولقد ذكر لنا أن ما بين مصراعين من مصاريع الجنة مسيرة أربعين سنة، وليأتين عليها يوم وهو كظيظ من الزحام، ولقد رأيتني سابع سبعة مع رسول الله ﷺ، ما لنا طعام إلا ورق الشجر، حتى قرحت أشداقنا… الحديث بطوله.
Muslim narrated it in Zuhd (2967) from Shayban bin Farroukh, who said, Sulayman bin Mughira told us, Humayd bin Hilal told us, from Khalid bin Umayr Adawi, and he related it at length.Similar in meaning is what was narrated from Abu Saeed Khudri, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said, "The distance between two door leaves in Paradise is a journey of forty years."Ahmad narrated it (11239), and Abd bin Humayd (926), and Abu Yaala (1275), all of them through Hasan bin Musa. Abu Naeem narrated it in Sifat al-Jannah (177), and Bayhaqi in Bath wal-Nushur (261), through Qutayba bin Saeed. Both of them (Hasan and Qutayba) narrated it from Ibn Lahia, who said, Darraj Abu Samh told us, from Abu Haytham, from Abu Saeed Khudri, and he related it.Abu Naeem also narrated it through Amr bin Harith, from Darraj, by the same wording. In the chain is Darraj Abu Samh, and he is daif in his narration from Abu Haytham, and this narration is from him.