The companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say, "Allah benefits us through the bedouins and their questions."One day, a bedouin came forward and said, "Messenger of Allah, Allah has mentioned in the Quran a tree that causes harm, yet I never imagined that in Paradise there could be a tree that harms the one who comes to it."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked, "Which tree is that?"He replied, "The lote tree, for it has thorns."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Among thornless lote trees" [Waqiah 56:28]. Allah will strip away its thorns and place in the spot of every thorn a fruit. It will produce fruit, and each fruit will burst open into seventy-two colors, no one color resembling another.
كان أصحاب رسول الله ﷺ يقولون: إن الله ينفعنا بالأعراب ومسائلهم، أقبل أعرابي يوما، فقال: يا رسول الله، لقد ذكر الله في القرآن شجرة مؤذية، وما كنت أرى أن في الجنة شجرة تؤذي صاحبها. فقال رسول الله ﷺ: وما هي؟ قال: السدر، فإن لها شوكا. فقال رسول الله ﷺ: {في سدر تخضور} [الواقعة: ٢٨] يخضد الله شوكه فيجعل مكان كل شوكة ثمرة، فإنها تنبت ثمرا تفتق الثمرة معها عن اثنين وسبعين لونا، ما منها لون يشبه الآخر.
Hakim narrated it (2/476), and Bayhaqi narrated it from him in Bath and Nushur (264), from Abu Abbas Muhammad bin Yaqub, who said, Rabi bin Sulayman narrated to us, who said, Bishr bin Bakr narrated to us, who said, Safwan bin Amr narrated to us, from Salim bin Amir, from Abu Umama, who said, and then he mentioned it. Hakim said, "The isnad is sahih," and it is as he said.