A Story of the Most Compassionate on the Day of Judgment.

[Beardo]

The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

By the One in Whose hand is my life, there will be none among you more eager to claim a right than the Believers on the Day of Resurrection for (saying of their) brethren in the Fire who would say: "O’ our Lord, they were fasting along with us, and praying and performing pilgrimage."

It will be said to them: “Take out those whom you recognize.”

Then their persons would be forbidden to the Fire; and they would take out a large number of people who had been overtaken by Fire up to the middle of the shank or up to the knees.

They would then say: "O’ our Lord, I know not one of those about whom Thou didst give us command remains in it [in Hell]."

He will then say: "Go back and bring out those in whose hearts you find good of the weight of a dinar." Then they will take out a large number of people.

Then they would say: "O our Lord! we have not left anyone about whom You commanded us."

He will then say: "Go back and bring out those in whose hearts you find as much as half a dinar of good."

Then they will take out a large number of people, and would say: "O our Lord! not one of those about whom Thou commanded us we have left in it."

Then He would say: "Go back and in whose heart you find good to the weight of an atom, bring him out."

They would bring out a large number of people, and would then say: “O our Lord, now we have not left anyone in it (Hell) having any good in him.”

[Abu Sa’id Khudri said]: If you don’t testify me in this hadith, then recite if you like: “Surely Allah wrongs not the weight of an atom; and if it is a good deed. He multiplies it and gives from Himself a great reward.” [Qur’an, 4:40]

Then Allah, Exalted and Great, would say: "The angels have interceded, the Apostles have interceded and the Believers have interceded, and no one remains (to grant pardon) but the Most Merciful of the merciful."

He will then take a handful from Fire and bring out from it people who never did any good and who had been turned into charcoal, and will cast them into a river called the river of life, on the outskirts of Paradise. They will come out as a seed comes cut from the silt carried by flood. You see it near the stone or near the tree. That which is exposed to the sun is yellowish or greenish and which is under the shade is white.

They said: "Messenger of Allah! It seems as if you had been tending a flock in the jungle."

He (the Holy Prophet) said: “They will come forth like pearls with seals on their necks. The inhabitants of Paradise would recognize them (and say): ‘Those are who have been set free by the Compassionate One - Who has admitted them into Paradise without any (good) deed that they did or any good that they sent in advance.’”

Then He would say: "Enter the Paradise; whatever you see in it is yours.

They would say: "O’ Lord, Thou hast bestowed upon us (favours) which Thou didst not bestow upon anyone else in the world."

He would say: “There is with Me (a favour) for you better than this.”

They would say: "O’ our Lord! What is better than this?”

He would say: "It is My pleasure. I will never be angry with you after this.”
Narrated by Sahih al-Bukhari [Vol:9, Book: 93, No: 532] and Sahih Muslim [Book: 01, No: 0352]

[Jedi_Mindset]

The Hadith gets me everytime when reading this...subhan'Allah.