The Prophet ﷺ said, "The Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary was raised up for me in the seventh heaven. Its fruits were like the large jars of Hajar, and its leaves were like the ears of elephants. From its trunk flowed two visible rivers and two hidden rivers."I asked, "Jibreel, what are these?"He replied, "The two hidden ones are in Paradise, and the two visible ones are the Nile and the Furat."
أن النبي ﷺ قال: رفعت لي سدرة المنتهى في السماء السابعة، تبعتها مثل قلال هجر، وورقها مثل آذان الفيلة، يخرج من ساقها نهران ظاهران، و نهران باطنان. فقلت: يا جبريل ما هذان؟ قال: أما الباطنان ففي الجنة، وأما الظاهران فالنيل والفرات.
Abdul-Razzaq related it in his Tafsir, and from him Imam Ahmad (12673) related it from Maamar, from Qatada, from Anas, and he mentioned the hadith. Its chain of transmission is sahih, and part of this has already appeared in the long hadith of Anas.Hakim (1/81) said, after relating it through this route, "Sahih according to the criterion of the two Shaykhs."Qurtubi said in al-Mufhim (1/394), In the hadith of Anas there is something that indicates the Lote Tree is in the seventh heaven or above it, because of his words, "Then he took me to the Lote Tree," after he had asked for the seventh heaven to be opened, and it was opened for him and he entered. In the hadith of Abdullah, it is in the sixth heaven, and this is an undoubted contradiction. What is in the hadith of Anas is more sahih, and it is the view of the majority, and what its description requires, that it is the point where the knowledge of every angel brought near and every messenger sent reaches its limit, as Kaab said. He said, What lies beyond it is unseen, known only to Allah. Khalil bin Ahmad said likewise, and he said, The souls of the martyrs reach as far as it. Ibn Abbas said, It is to the right of the Throne. Also, the hadith of Anas is a raised narration (marfu), while the hadith of Abdullah is a stopped narration (mawquf), attributed to his own words, and a raised, connected narration takes precedence. End of quote.Nawawi attempted to reconcile the two hadiths, and Ibn Hajar followed him, saying that its root is in the sixth heaven while its branches are in the seventh, but this is open to question.