HELL’S INTENSE HEAT AND BITTER COLD
Allah, the Most High said:
“And they said,‘Do not go forth in the heat.’ Say, ‘The fire of Hell is more intense in heat’—if they would but understand!” (Taubah (9): 81)
It is reported in both Bukhari and Muslim on the authority of Abu Hurayrah (radiyAlldhu ‘anhu) who narrated that the Prophet (pbuh) said: “Hell pleaded to her Lord saying, ‘O Lord! Some parts of me are eating other parts (from severe heat), so allow me respite in the form of exhalation; once in winter and once again in summer. “ The most severe heat you experience is from its Sumoom and the worst of chill is from its Zamharir.” (Bukhari, #3660, Muslim, #617 and Tirmdhi, #2595. )
Another hadith reported in both Bukhari and Muslim on the authority of Abu Hurayrah (radiyAlldhu ‘anhu) where the Prophet (pbuh) said: “The fire that the son of Adam ignites is one of seventy parts intense then Hellfire.” His Companions remarked, ‘ByAllah, it (one part) would have been sufficient.’He (pbuh) said: “Hellfire is sixty-nine times hotter; each part equally hot.” (Bukhari, #3625, Muslim, #2843 and Tirmidhi, #2592.)
Imam Ahmad reports a narration with the addition, “Were it not that Hellfire was dipped in the sea twice, the worldly fire would have proved too intense for any use.” (Ahmad in his Musnad’ 2/379)
Ka’b said to ‘Umar Al-Khattab (radiyAllahu ‘anhu): ‘If a hole the size of a bull’s nostril were to open in the east of Hell, a man on the west would have had his brain boiling due to its heat and flow like liquid as a result.’
‘Abdu’l-Malik Ibn ‘Umayr said that if the dwellers of Hell were to stay in a fire [of intensity] of this world, they would fall asleep therein. (Meaning they would find it comfortable as compared to Hellfire)
Another hadith states that Hellfire says on a daily basis, “My heat has increased, my depth has deepened, my embers have become great and my Lord has postponed my dwellers from me.”
Bashir Ibn Mansur asked ‘Ata’al-Salami: ‘How would one feel if a (worldly) fire is ignited and he is asked, ‘who shall enter it?’ ‘Ata replied,‘If I were asked that question I will be so elated that I fear my soul will leave my body before I fall into the fire!’
Section One:
Freezing coldness (zamharir) of Hell
Mujahid said: ‘Verily Hell contains freezing coldness amharir). If they do not boil in Hell, they will flee and reach zamharir (on the opposite pole). If they fall therein, their bones will splinter such that its crackle can be heard.’
Layth added that they will not feel the bones breaking because of the bitter cold.
Ibn ‘Abbas (radi Allahu ‘anhuma) said:‘The dwellers of Hell will seek protection from the fire and Allah will send them respite in the form of a cold wind. Its bitter cold will break their bones and they will ask for Hellfire again.’
It is said that zamharir is so cold that the skin drops off from the body. When Zayd al-Yami woke up for the night prayer, he washed his hand and put it into the container that held water. He was stunned by the bitter cold which was near freezing level. Immediately, he pondered about zamharir and kept his hand in the container until morning. His slave girl came to see him in the morning and saw him in this situation. She asked him,‘O master! Why did you not pray last night like you always do?’ He replied, ‘Woe unto you! I put my hand into this container and was stunned by the bitter cold which made me think about zamharir: By Allah, I did not feel the coldness of the water and so stood here. Look, do not mention this incident to anyone except after my death/ And so no one knew this story till after he died.
By Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali
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