More details about this horrific place are excerpted from al-Zamakhshari thus...

More details about this horrific place are excerpted from al-Zamakhshari thus: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) has said, "During my night journey (israa), I heard a huge noise, so I asked Gabriel, ‘What is this huge noise, O Gabriel?’ He (Gabriel) said, ‘It is a rock thrown from the tip of hell into it, and it has been falling for the past seventy Autumns, and it has now reached its bottom." Abu ‘Asim ‘Ubayd ibn ‘Umayr ibn Qatadah al-Laythi, Mecca’s judge (d.

68 A.H.), has said, "Hell exhales one exhalation because of which all angels and prophets tremble, so much so that even Ibraliim (Abraham) (as) kneels down and says, ‘Lord!

I plead to You to only spare me!"’ Abu Sa’eed alKhudri is quoted saying, "If a mountain is hit with one of the clubs used by the angels charged with hell, it will be fragmented into bits and turned into dust." Tawoos ibn Keesan al-Khawlani is quoted saying, "When hell was created, the angels became extremely frightened, and when you (humans) were created, they became calm. " Al-Hasan ibn Yasar al-Basir has said, "By Allah! None among the servants of Allah can withstand its heat!

It has been said to us that if a man stands in the east and hell in the west, and if it is partially uncovered for him, his skull will boil. Had a bucket of its pus been dropped on earth, not a single living being would have remained alive." Hisham ibn al-Hassan al-Dastoo’i used not to put out his lamp at night. His family objected and said to him, "we cannot tell when it is daytime and when it is nighttime!" He said, "By Allah!

If I put the lamp out, I will remember the darkness of the grave, and no sleep can then overcome me." Punishment in hell will be according to the type or types of sins committed during the life of this world. For example, those who treasured their money and were negligent about taking out their zakat and other religious taxes will be burned with what they had treasured on their foreheads, on their sides, and on their backs. In other words, on most of their bodies.

Abu Tharr al-Ghifari, may Allah be pleased with him, used to say, ‘Tell those who treasure their wealth that they will be burnt therewith on their foreheads, on their sides, and on their backs till they are filled with fire." The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) has said, as we are told on p. 243, Vol.