Salama bin Salam bin Waqs reported,

Salama said, "We had a Jewish neighbor among the Banu Abd al-Ashhal. Shortly before the Prophet ﷺ was sent, he came out from his house one day and stopped by the gathering of Banu Abd al-Ashhal."Salama continued, "I was the youngest person there at the time, lying on a cloak in the courtyard of my family's home. He spoke about the resurrection, the Day of Judgment, the reckoning, the scales, paradise, and hellfire. He was addressing a people of polytheism, idol worshippers who did not believe that any resurrection would occur after death."They said to him, "Woe to you, so-and-so. Do you really think this will happen, that people will be resurrected after their death to a realm containing paradise and hellfire, where they will be recompensed according to their deeds?"He replied, "Yes, by Him whom one swears by. A man would gladly accept, in exchange for his share of that fire, the largest oven in this world, heated to its hottest, then be placed inside it and have it sealed shut over him, just to escape that fire on the morrow."They asked him, "Woe to you, what is the sign of that?"He said, "A prophet who will be sent from the direction of these lands," and he gestured with his hand toward Mecca and Yemen.They asked, "When do you expect to see him?"He looked at me, since I was the youngest among them, and said, "If this boy lives out his natural lifespan, he will witness him."Salama said, "By Allah, the days and nights had not passed before Allah Most High sent His Messenger ﷺ, while that man was still alive among us. We believed in him, but the Jewish neighbor disbelieved out of envy and spite."We said to him, "Woe to you, so-and-so. Are you not the one who told us about him what you told us?"He said, "Yes, but he is not the one."

عن سلمة بن سلامة بن وقش، وسلمة من أصحاب بدر قال

كان لنا جار من يهود في بني عبد الأشهل، قال: فخرج علينا يوما من بيته قبل مبعث النبي ﷺ بيسير، فوقف على مجلس بني عبد الأشهل، قال سلمة: وأنا يومئذ أحدث من فيه سنا، علي بردة مضطجعا فيه بفناء أهلي، فذكر البعث والقيامة والحساب والميزان والجنة والنار، فقال: ذلك لقوم أهل شرك أصحاب أوثان لا يرون أن بعثا كائن بعد الموت، فقالوا له: ويحك يا فلان، ترى هذا كائنا أن الناس يبعثون بعد موتهم إلى دار فيها جنة ونار، ويجزون فيها بأعمالهم؟ قال: نعم والذي يحلف به لود أن له بحظه من تلك النار أعظم تنور في الدنيا يحمونه ثم يدخلونه إياه فيطبق به عليه، وأن ينجو من تلك النار غدا. قالوا له: ويحك وما آية ذلك؟ قال: نبي يبعث من نحو هذه البلاد، وأشار بيده نحو مكة واليمن، قالوا: ومتى تراه؟ قال: فنظر إلي وأنا من أحدثهم سنا، فقال: إن يستنفذ هذا الغلام عمره يدركه. قال سلمة: فو الله ما ذهب الليل والنهار حتى بعث الله تعالى رسوله ﷺ وهي حي بين أظهرنا، فآمنا به، وكفر به بغيا وحسدا، فقلنا: ويلك يا فلان! ألست بالذي قلت لنا فيه ما قلت؟ قال: بلي وليس به.