In
the Two Ṣaḥīḥs, it is recorded that
the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said,
إِنَّ
أَهْلَ عِلِّيِّينَ لَيَرَاهُمْ مَنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنْهُمْ كَمَا تَرَوْنَ الْكَوْكَبَ
الْغَا بِرَ فِي أُفُقٍ مِنْ آفَاقِ السَّماءِ
The residents of ‘Illiyyin (in Paradise) are seen
from those below them, just as you see the distant planet in the
horizon of the sky.
They said, “O Allāh’s Messenger! They are the grades of the Prophets that none except
them would attain.” The Prophet ﷺ said,
بَلَى
وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ! ، لِرِجَالٌ آمَنُوا بِاللهِ وَصَدَّقُوا
الْمُرْسَلِينَ
Rather, by He in Whose Hand is my soul! They are for men who have faith in Allāh and believed in the Messengers.”[1]
[1] Fatḥ Al-Bāri 6:368 and Muslim 4:2177.
SOURCE: Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr (Abridged) Volume 4, p.259, Dar-us-Salam
Abridged by A Group of Scholars under the supervision of Shaykh Safiur-Rahman Al-Mubarakpuri
