What Every Person Needs To Know About Jahannam (hell) Episode 3 The Vast Extent of Hell

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*What Every Person Needs To Know About Jahannam (hell)*

*Episode 3*

*The Vast Extent of Hell*

Hell is huge and vast and immensely deep, as is proven by several things:

(1) Those who will enter Hell are innumerable, yet one of them will be so huge that his molars will be as big as Mount Uhud, and the distance between his shoulders will be equivalent to three days walking. Nevertheless, Hell will 

accommodate the huge number of Kuffaar and evildoers who have existed throughout history, in spite of their huge size, and there will still be room for more, as Allah says in the Qur'an:

"On the Day when We will say to Hell: "Are you filled?" It will say: "Are there any more to come?" (50:30)

(2) Another indication of its vast depth is the fact that a stone thrown from the top of Hell takes a very long time to reach the bottom. Muslim reports that Abu Hurayrah (Radiallaahu Anhu) said:

"We were with the Messenger of Allah (Salallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) and we 

heard the sound of something falling. The Prophet (Salallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) said, "Do you know what that was?" We said, "Allah and His Messenger know best". He said, "That was a stone that was thrown into Hell seventy years ago and it was falling through Hell until now". (Muslim, Kitaab al-Jannah, Baab fi shiddat haar an-naar, 4/2184 no. 2844)

Haakim reports from Abu Hurayrah, and Tabaraani from Mu'aadh and Abu Umamah (Radiallaahu Anhu) that the Prophet (Salallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) said, 

"If there was a huge stone as big as seven khalifaat stones, and it was thrown from the edge of Hell it would fly through it for seventy years before it reached the bottom". (Saheeh al-Jaami' as-Sagheer, 5/58, no. 5124, Its isnaad is saheeh).