question #2 Sahih Muslim 183b, Book 1, Hadith 360 : What is the significance of the bridge described as thinner than a hair and sharper than a sword in Islamic eschatology?

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What is the significance of the bridge described as thinner than a hair and sharper than a sword in Islamic eschatology?


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We said: Messenger of Allah, shall we see our Lord? The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Do you feel any trouble in seeing the sun on a cloudless day? We said: No. And the remaining part of the hadith has been narrated to the end like the hadith transmitted by Hafs b. Maisara with the addition of these words: Without the deed that they did or any good that they had sent before. It would be said to them: For you is whatever you see (in it) and with it the like of it. Abu Sa’id said: I have come to know that the bridge would be thinner even than the hair and sharper than the sword; and in the hadith narrated by Laith these words are not found: They would say, O our Lord! Thou hast bestowed upon us (favours) which thou didst not bestow on anyone else in the world.

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Sahih Muslim 183b, Book 1, Hadith 360

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