12. It was narrated to us by Muhammad b. Ibrahim who said it was narrated to us by Ahmad b. Hayyawayh al-Jurjani al-Mudhakkar who said it was narrated to us by Abu Ishaq Ibrahim b. Bilal who said it was narrated to us by Abu Muhammad who said it was narrated to us by Abu Abdillah Muhammad b. Karram who said it was narrated to us by Ahmad b. Abdillah who said it was narrated to us by Sufyan b. U’yaynah who said it was narrated to us by Muawiyah b. Abi Ishaq from Sa’eed b. Jubayr who said
“Listen carefully to what I say. I have heard the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) say, ‘If you had known the reward in the month of Ramadan you would have thanked Allah much more. The Almighty Allah wipes out all the apparent and hidden sins of the people of my Ummah on the first night of Ramadan and increases the position of people by two hundred thousand levels and builds fifty cities in Paradise for them. He grants the reward of worship of one year, the reward of a prophet and the reward of fasting of one year for each step taken on the next day.” “On the third day, domes decorated with pearls and rubies are made in Paradise for you equaling the number of hair on your body. There will be twelve thousand illuminated houses in it – below and above. There will be twelve thousand beds in each house and a Hoor would be seated on each bed. One thousand Angels would come to you with gifts daily. The Almighty Allah would grant you seventy thousand palaces in Paradise on the fourth day. Every house will have fifty thousand beds and a Hoor would be sitting on each bed and thousand maid-servants of Hoor would stand in front of her and their dresses will be better than this world and anything in it. Allah would grant you seventy palaces in Paradise on the fifth day. Every city will have seventy thousand houses and every house will have seventy thousand tables and every table will have seventy thousand dishes and every dish will have sixty thousand distinct types of cuisines. On the sixth day, Allah would grant you a hundred thousand cities in Darus Salaam. Every house will have a hundred thousand golden beds seventy thousand spans wide and a Hoorul Ein would be seated on every bed, who would already be married to you. She would have thirty thousand locks of hair on their heads decorated with pearls and rubies and every lock would be held by a hundred maids. The Almighty Allah would grant you the reward of forty thousand martyrs and truthful ones in Paradise on the seventh day. The Almighty Allah would give you the reward of sixty thousand worshippers and sixty thousand repenters on the eighth day. On the ninth day, Allah would grant you the reward of one thousand scholars, those who go for Etekaf and for battle. Allah would fulfill your seventy thousand wishes on the tenth day. Every thing including the sun, moon, stars, animals, birds, pebbles, flowers, every dry and wet object, fishes, sea and trees will repent for you. He would note down the reward of four Hajjs performed along with the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) and reward of four Umrahs performed by a martyr or a truthful person. The twelfth day would convert your sins to good deeds, double your good deeds and further multiply them a hundred thousand times. Allah would offer reward equal to the worship of all the people of Mecca and Medina on the thirteenth day and you will get intercession equal to the number of pebbles and grains of sand between Mecca and Medina. On the fourteenth day, you would be offered the reward of meeting Adam, Nuh, Ibrahim, Musa, Dawood, Sulaiman and worshipping Allah for two thousand years with each prophet. Allah would fulfill all your wishes – worldly and that of hereafter. He would grant you all those things, which he had given to Ayyub. He would accept your supplications, the people of heavens would repent for you and you would be given forty lights (Nur) on the Day of Judgment, which would surround you from all four sides, each side having ten of them. For sixteenth day, Allah would grant you sixty dresses when you are resurrected. You would be made to mount a camel and a cloud of Mercy would protect you from the hot sun of that day. On the seventeenth day, Allah would say that surely He has forgiven you and your parents. He would take away the difficulties of the Day of Judgment from you. On the eighteenth day, the Almighty Allah would order Jibraeel, Mikaeel, Israfeel and the people of heaven to repent for the Ummah of Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) till the next year. And Allah would give you the reward of the people of Badr on the Day of Judgment. The reward of the nineteenth day is that all the angels of earth and heaven would come to your grave taking permission from Allah and every angel would be carrying gifts and drinks for you. On the twentieth day, Allah would appoint seventy thousand angels for you who would save you from the mischief of Satan and they would write the reward of the fasts of a hundred years for each fast. Allah would make a barrier between you and Hell, note down the reward of those who recited the Old Testament, New Testament and the Holy Quran. He would note down the reward of worship of one year for each feather of Jibraeel. He would grant you the reward of Tasbeeh of Arsh and Kursi; grant you Hoorul Ein equal to the number of verses in the Holy Quran. The reward of the twenty-first day is that Allah would expand your grave by a thousand parasangs and keep darkness and fear away from it. He would include your grave among those of the martyrs and your face would resemble Yusuf bin Yaqoob (a.s.). The reward of the twenty-second day is that Allah would send the Angel of death to you in the same way as He sends him to the prophets. He would take away the fear of Munkir and Nakir from you and keep away the sorrow of this world and the chastisement of the grave. The reward of the twenty- third day is that you will pass through the Sirat Bridge along with prophets, truthful ones, martyrs and the virtuous. You will be rewarded as if you have fed every orphan and dressed every naked of my Ummah. The reward of the twenty-fourth day is that no person among you would go from this world until he sees his place in Paradise. You would be given the reward of a thousand sick persons and that of a traveler who started from his home in the way of Allah. You would be granted the reward of freeing one thousand slaves from the progeny of Ismail (a.s.). On the twenty-fifth day, Allah would make a thousand domes under the Divine throne and there would be a tent of a Hoor at the end of each dome. The Almighty Allah will say, ‘O Ummah of Muhammad (s.a.w.s.)! I am your Lord and you are My slaves. Sit in the domes constructed under the shade of My throne. Eat and drink for there is no fear or sorrow for you. O Ummah of Muhammad (s.a.w.s.)! I swear by My Honor that I would surely send you to Paradise. The first and last communities would be surprised on seeing you and you would be given an illuminated crown and you would be made to ride a camel created from light, whose bridles will be of light. There will be a thousand circles on it and an angel would be standing on each circle holding a pillar of light in his hand and you will be made to enter Paradise without any accounting of deeds. Allah would look upon you with mercy on the twenty-sixth day; He would forgive all your sins except that of murdering or usurping property and purify your house seventy times a day from backbiting and imputation. On the twenty-seventh day, you will be granted the reward of helping all the believers, men as well as women, and the reward of dressing seventy thousand naked persons, helping one thousand soldiers and reciting the Holy Scriptures revealed on all prophets. On the twenty- eighth day, the Almighty Allah would build a hundred thousand houses of light in Behisht-e-Javed for you. He would reward you a hundred thousand houses made of silver in Jannat-e-Maawa and a hundred thousand houses made of pure amber in Jannat-e-Naeem. He would reward you a hundred thousand cities in Jannat-e-Firdaus, each city having a thousand rooms. He would reward you a hundred thousand pulpits of musk in Jannat-e-Khuld and there would be a thousand houses made of saffron in the boundaries of each pulpit and each house will have a thousand beds made of pearls and rubies and a Hoorul Ein would be sitting on each bed who would be your wife. On the twenty-ninth day, He would reward you a hundred thousand localities and each locality will have an illuminated dome and every dome will have a bed made of white camphor, every bed will have one thousand carpets of green brocade and a Hoorul Ein would be sitting on each carpet having seventy thousand high quality dresses and they would have eighty thousand hairs on their heads decorated with pearls and rubies. When thirty days are over, the Almighty Allah would grant you the reward of a thousand martyrs, a thousand truthful ones and the worship of fifty years for each day passed. He would note down the reward of two thousand fasts for every single fast. He would increase your position by levels equal to the number of things grown by the water of river Nile. You would be given freedom from Hell, permit to pass through the Sirat Bridge and protection from chastisement. The door of Paradise named Rayyaan, which will not open till Qiyamat would be opened for the men and women of the Ummah of Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) who observe fast and Rizwan, the treasurer of Paradise would give a call, ‘O Ummah of Muhammad! Move towards Rayyan.’ Then my people will enter this door into Paradise. Thus one who could not be forgiven in this month will not be forgiven in any other month. There is no power or strength except with the Greatest Lord!’