Muhammad b. Ibrahim al-Mu`adhi narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Hiwuwayh al-Jarjani al-Mudhakkir narrated to us. He said: Abu Ishaq Ibrahim b. Bilal narrated to us. He said: Abu Muhammad narrated to us. He said: Abu `Abdillah Muhammad b. Karam narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. `Ubadullah narrated to us. He said: Sufyan b. `Uyana narrated to us. He said: Mu`awiya b. Ishaq narrated to us from Sa`id b. Jubayr. He said: I asked Ibn `Abbas: What will be given to one who fasts the month of Ramadan and recognizes its right? He said: Prepare, O Jubayr, for me tell you something that your ears have never heard and that has never come to your heart. Empty yourself of what you have asked me about. Sa'id b. Jubayr said: So, I left him, and I prepared to meet him the next morning. I went early with the rising of the Sun, I prayed Fajr, and I mentioned the saying. He turned his face toward me and said: Listen to what I say: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم say: If you were to know what you have in the month of Ramadan, you would increase in your remembrance of and your thanksgiving to Allah.
On the first night, Allah forgives every private and public sin of my Nation, raises you by a thousand thousand (a million) ranks, and builds fifty cities for you.
On the second day, Allah records one year of worship for every step that you take. He records the deeds of a prophet and the fasting of a year for you.
On the third day, Allah gives you a dome of white pearl in the Highest Paradise for every hair on your body. Atop it will be twelve thousand houses of light, and at the bottom of it will be twelve thousand houses. Every house will have one thousand beds, and every bed will have a dark-eyed beauty. Every day, one thousand angels will visit you, each one bearing a gift.
On the fourth day, Allah gives you seventy thousand palaces in the Paradise of Eternity. In each palace there are seventy thousand houses, and in each house there are fifty thousand beds, and on each bed there is a heavenly maiden. In front of each heavenly maiden are a thousand maidservants; the veil of each one of which is better than the world and everything in it.
On the fifth day, Allah gives you one million cities in the Paradise of Safety. Each city will have seventy thousand houses. Each house will have seventy thousand tablespreads. Each tablespread will have seventy thousand dishes. Each dish will have sixty thousand colours of distinct foods that do not resemble one another.
On the sixth day, Allah gives you one hundred thousand cities in the Abode of Peace. Each city will have one hundred thousand residences. Each residence will have one hundred thousand houses. Each house will have one hundred thousand beds of gold. The length of each bed is one thousand armlengths. Upon each bed is a spouse from the houris with a ponytail embroidered with pearls and rubies. Each ponytail will be held up by one hundred girls.
On the seventh day, Allah gives you the reward of seventy thousand martyrs and forty thousand saints in the Paradise of Bliss.
On the eighth day, Allah will give you the deeds of sixty thousand worshipers and sixty thousand ascetics.
On the ninth day, Allah gives you what He gives to one thousand scholars, one thousand retreaters (mu`takif), and one thousand fasteners (murabit).
On the tenth day, Allah fulfills seventy thousand of your needs; and the Sun, Moon, stars, beasts, birds, lions, every rock and stone, every ripe and dry fruit, the whales in the oceans, and the leaves on the trees will seek repentance for you.
On the eleventh day, Allah gives you the reward of four Hajj and four `Umra - every Hajj is as though it is with a prophet from the prophets, and every `Umra is as though it is with a saint or a martyr.
On the twelfth day, Allah changes your sins into good deeds, doubles your good deeds, and multiplies each good deed by one million.
On the thirteenth day, Allah gives you the like of the worship of the people of Mecca and Medina, and intercession by [the number of] every rock and stone between Mecca and Medina.
On the fourteenth day, it is as though you meet Adam and Nuh, then Ibrahim and Musa, then Dawud and Sulayman; it will be as though you worshiped Allah with every prophet for two hundred years.
On the fifteenth day, Allah fulfills all your needs in this world and the Hereafter. Allah gives you what He gave Ayyub. The upholders of the Throne seek repentance for you; and on the Day of Resurrection, Allah gives you forty lights: ten to your right, ten to your left, ten before you, and ten behind you.
On the sixteenth day, Allah gives you sixty garments to wear and a she-camel to ride when you come out of your grave. Allah will give you a cloud to shade you from the heat of that Day.
On the seventeenth day, Allah says: "I have forgiven them and their forefathers, and I have lifted the severity of the Day of Resurrection away from them.
On the eighteenth day, Allah orders Gabriel, Michael, Israfil, the upholders of the Throne, and the angels of proximity to seek repentance for the Nation of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم till the following year. Allah will give you the robes of the people of Badr.
On the nineteenth day, there will not be an angel in the heavens or the Earth except that it will seek permission to visit your graves every day. With each angel will be a gift and a drink.
After twenty days are complete, Allah will raise seventy thousand angels to protect you from every accursed devil. Allah will record every day that you have fasted as though it were one hundred years. Allah will put a trench between you and the Fire. Allah will give you the reward of one who has recited the Torah, the Gospel, the Psalms, and the Criterion. Allah will record a year of worship for every feather on Gabriel for you. Allah will give you the reward of the glorification (tasbih) of the Throne and the Seat. He will give you one thousand houris for every verse of the Quran.
On the twenty-first day, Allah will widen your grave by one thousand cubits. He will lift darkness and loneliness away from you. He will make your graves like the graves of the martyrs. He will make your faces like the face of Yusuf b. Ya'qub عليه السلام.
On the twenty-second day, Allah will send the Angel of Death to you in the same manner that He sends it to the prophets. He will repel the horror of Munkar and Nakir from you, and He will ward off the worries of this world and the punishment of the Hereafter.
On the twenty-third day, you will pass through the Path with the prophets, saints, and martyrs. It will be as though you satiated every orphan from my Nation and dressed every bare person from my Nation.
On the twenty-fourth day, none of you will leave this world except that you will see your place in Paradise. Every one of you will be given the deeds of one thousand ill people and one thousand strangers who went out in obedience to Allah. He will give you the reward of freeing one thousand necks from the descendants of Ishmael.
On the twenty-fifth day, Allah will build one thousand green domes for you beneath the Throne. At the head of every dome will be a tent of light. Allah will say, "O Nation of Muhammad! I am your Lord, and you are my slaves and maidservants. Be shaded by the shade of My Throne in these domes and eat and drink in celebration, for you will neither fear nor grieve. O Nation of Muhammad! By My glory and My majesty! I will raise you in Paradise, where some of you will be astonished by its colours and other things. I will crown every one of you with one thousand crowns of light. I will mount every one of you with a she-camel created from light: its reins will be of light, and every rein will have one thousand rings of gold. In every ring will be an angel standing upon it. In the hand of each angel will be a pole of light, and you will enter Paradise without punishment."
On the twenty-sixth day, Allah looks to you in mercy, and Allah forgives all your sins except bloodshed and [the stealing of] wealth. Every day of yours will be sanctified seventy times from backbiting, lying, and accusations.
On the twenty-seventh day, it will be as though you have supported every believing man and woman, dressed seventy thousand bare people, served one thousand fasteners, and recited every Book revealed by Allah to His prophets.
On the twenty-eighth day, Allah gives you one hundred thousand cities of light in the Paradise of Eternity. Allah gives you one hundred thousand palaces of silver in the Paradise of Safety. Allah gives you one hundred thousand cities in the Highest Heaven; in each city will be one thousand chambers. Allah gives you one hundred thousand pulpits of musk in the Paradise of Majesty; inside each pulpit will be one thousand houses of saffron. In every house will be one thousand beds of pearl and ruby, and upon each bed will be a spouse from the heavenly maidens.
On the twenty-ninth day, Allah gives you one million locales, and in each locale is a white dome. In each dome is a bed of white camphor. Upon that bed will be one thousand mattresses of green emerald. Atop each mattress is a dark-eyed beauty wearing seventy thousand garments; with eighty thousand ponytails on her head. Every ponytail will be embroidered with pearls and rubies.
Once thirty days are completed, Allah will record the reward of one thousand martyrs and one thousand saints for every day for you. Allah will record the worship of fifty years for you. Allah will record two thousand days for every day you fasted. Allah will raise your rank by the length of the Nile. Allah will record a dissociation of you from the Fire, a permit upon the Path, and safety from punishment. In Paradise, there is a gate called "Rayyan"; none will open it until the Day of Resurrection, then, it will be opened the fasting men and women from the Nation of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم. Then, Ridwan, the Keeper of Paradise, will call: "O Nation of Muhammad! Come to Rayyan", and my Nation will enter that gate to Paradise. If one is not forgiven in the month of Ramadan, then in what month would he be forgiven?! There is no power nor ability except by Allah.