“If you are admitted into Paradise, you shall be brought a horse of rubies with two wings, then you shall be carried on it, then it will fly with you wherever you wish.”

Reported by al-Tirmidhī (2547) and al-Ṭabarānī (4/215: 4075), and from him Abū Nuʿaym in Ṣifat al-Jannah [Description of Paradise] (261/423) by way of Wāṣil b. al-Sāʾib, from Abū Sawrah, from Abū Ayyūb [who] said:

“A Bedouin came to the Prophet, may the praise and protection of Allāh be upon him, and said, ‘O Messenger of Allāh, I love horses, are there horses in Paradise?’ The Messenger of Allāh, may the praise and protection of Allāh be upon him, said: … and he mentioned the ḥadīth.

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