Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 1 - Hadith 348-355

Chapter 78: The saying of the Prophet (saws): "Light, How could I see Him?" and: "I saw Light".

It is narrated on the authority of Abu Dharr:

I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): Did you see thy Lord? He said: (He is) Light; how could I see Him? (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 1 - Hadith 348)

Abdullah b. Shaqiq reported:

I said to Abu Dharr: Had I seen the Messenger of Allah, I would have asked him. He (Abu Dharr) said: What is that thing that you wanted to inquire of him? He said: I wanted to ask him whether he had seen his Lord. Abu Dharr said: I, in fact, inquired of him, and he replied: I saw Light. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 1 - Hadith 349)

Chapter 79: The saying of the Prophet (saws): "Allah does not sleep" and "His veil is light, and if he were to remove it, the splendour of his face would burn all of his creation, as far as hs sght reaches".

Abu Musa reported:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was standing amongst us and he told us five things. He said: Verily the Exalted and Mighty God does not sleep, and it does not befit Him to sleep. He lowers the scale and lifts it. The deeds in the night are taken up to Him before the deeds of the day, and the deeds of the day before the deeds of the night. His veil is the light. In the hadith narrated by Abu Bakr (instead of the word "light" ) it is fire. If he withdraws it (the veil), the splendour of His countenance would consume His creation so far as His sight reaches. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 1 - Hadith 350)

A'mash has narrated this hadith on the same authority and said:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was standing amongst us and he told us four things. He then narrated the hadith like the one reported by Abu Mua'wiya, but did not mention the words" His creation" and said: His veil is the light. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 1 - Hadith 351)

Abu Musa reported:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was standing amongst us and (he said) four (things): Verily Allah does not sleep and it does not befit Him to sleep. He raises the scale and lowers it. The deeds of the day are presented to Him in the night and the deeds of the night in the day. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 1 - Hadith 352)

Chapter 80: Affirming that the believers will see their Lord, Glorious is he and most high, in the hereafter

'Abdullah b. Qais transmitted on the authority of his father (Abu Musa Ash'ari) that the Apostle (ﷺ) said:

There would be two gardens (in Paradise) the vessels and contents of which would be of silver, and two gardens whose vessels and contents would be of gold. The only thing intervening to hinder the people from looking at their Lord will be the mantle of Grandeur over His face in the Garden of Eden. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 1 - Hadith 353)

Suhaib reported the Apostle (ﷺ) saying:

When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more? They would say: Hast Thou not brightened our faces? Hast Thou not made us enter Paradise and saved us from Fire? He (the narrator) said: He (God) would lift the veil, and of things given to them nothing would he dearer to them than the sight of their Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 1 - Hadith 354)

Hammad b. Salama narrated it on the same authority and added:

He then recited the verse:" Those who do good will have the best reward and even more" (x. 26) (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 1 - Hadith 355)