The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "I see what you do not see and I hear what you do not hear. The heaven has groaned, and it has every right to groan. There is not a space of four fingers in it without an angel placing his forehead in prostration to Allah. By Allah, if you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much, you would take no pleasure in women upon the bedding, and you would go out into the open spaces crying out to Allah. I wish I were a tree that is cut down."
حدثنا أحمد بن منيع حدثنا أبو أحمد الزبيري حدثنا إسرائيل عن إبراهيم بن المهاجر عن مجاهد عن مورق
قال رسول الله ﷺ إني أرى ما لا ترون وأسمع ما لا تسمعون أطت السماء وحق لها أن تئط ما فيها موضع أربع أصابع إلا وملك واضع جبهته ساجدا لله والله لو تعلمون ما أعلم لضحكتم قليلا ولبكيتم كثيرا وما تلذذتم بالنساء على الفرش ولخرجتم إلى الصعدات تجأرون إلى الله لوددت أني كنت شجرة تعضد
[Hasan]. Ibn Majah narrated it in Zuhd, the chapter on grief and weeping, no. 4190, from the hadith of Israil with the same wording, and Hakim graded it sahih (2/510, 511, 579, 4/544), and Dhahabi agreed with him. His saying, "I wish I were a tree that gets cut down," is an insertion from the words of Abu Dharr , Dharr
, and the rest of the hadith is hasan with supporting narrations.On this topic there is also a narration from Ayesha [Bukhari, no. 1044, and Muslim, no. 901], Abu Hurairah [coming up at 2313], Ibn Abbas [I could not find it], and Anas [Bukhari, no. 6486, and Muslim, no. 2359].