English Translation

Yunus ibn Muhammad told us: Harb ibn Maymun Abu al-Khattab al-Ansari told us, from al-Nadr ibn Anas, from Anas, who said: The Prophet of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, told me: "I was standing, waiting for my nation to cross over the Bridge, when Jesus came to me and said, 'These are the prophets who have come to you, O Muhammad, asking' — or he said, 'gathering to you' — 'and imploring Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to disperse the gathering of the nations to wherever Allah wills, because of the distress they are in, while all creation is bridled in sweat. As for the believer, it is to him like a slight head-cold, but as for the disbeliever, death overwhelms him.'" He said: He said to Jesus, "Wait until I return to you." He said: So the Prophet of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, went until he stood beneath the Throne, and he encountered what no favored angel nor sent prophet had ever encountered. Then Allah, Mighty and Majestic, revealed to Gabriel, "Go to Muhammad and say to him: raise your head, ask and you shall be given, intercede and your intercession will be accepted." He said: "So I was granted intercession for my nation, that ninety-nine out of every hundred be taken out." He said: "I continued to return again and again to my Lord, Mighty and Majestic, and I did not stand in any station but that I was granted intercession, until Allah, Mighty and Majestic, granted me of that, that He said: O Muhammad, admit from your nation, from among Allah's creation, whoever testified that there is no god but Allah, even for one day, sincerely, and died upon that."