سورة الأعراف

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Abd al-Rahman ibn Ubaydullah al-Zuhri said: When Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik went on the Hajj pilgrimage, he entered the Masjid al-Haram leaning on the hand of Salim, one of his freedmen. Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) was sitting there. Salim said, "O Commander of the Faithful, this man is Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn (peace be upon him)." Hisham said, "The one over whom the people of Iraq are enamoured?" He said, "Yes." Hisham said, "Go to him and say: The Commander of the Faithful asks: what will people eat and drink before judgement is passed between them on the Day of Resurrection?" Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said, "People will be gathered in a place like a loaf of pure bread, in which there are gushing rivers. They will eat and drink until they are done with the reckoning." Hisham saw that the Imam had managed to answer, so he said, "Allahu Akbar! Go to him and say: How can the people on that day get to eating and drinking?!" The Imam (peace be upon him) replied, "They in the Fire are more preoccupied than on the Day of Resurrection, and yet with all that they are not heedless of eating and drinking, for [the people of the Fire] say to [the people of Paradise]: أَفیضُوا عَلَیْنا مِنَ الْماءِ أَوْ مِمَّا رَزَقَکُمُ اللهُ [Pour on us some water or of that which Allah has given you]." On hearing this reply, Hisham fell silent and said no more.

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Abrash Kalbi, pointing to Imam Baqir (peace be upon him), said to Hisham: "Who is this man whom the people of Iraq have surrounded, asking him questions?" He said: "This is the prophet of Kufa, and he claims to be the son of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family), the splitter of knowledge, and the interpreter of the Qur'an! Ask him a question he does not know!" ... He came to the Imam and said: "I have some questions for you." He said: "Ask." He said: "Regarding this verse: On the day when this earth shall be changed into a different earth (Ibrahim/48), tell me: what do people eat and drink until Allah judges between them on the Day of Resurrection?" He said: "People will be gathered in a place like a loaf of pure bread, in which there are gushing rivers; they eat and drink until the reckoning is finished." Hisham said: "Tell him: what will keep them, on that day, from eating and drinking?" He said: "They will be more occupied in the Fire than on the Day of Resurrection, and even so they are not heedless of eating and drinking, for [the people of Hell] say [to the people of Paradise]: أَنْ أَفِیضُوا عَلَیْنا مِنَ الْماءِ أَوْ مِمَّا رَزَقَکُمُ اللهُ [Pour on us some water or of that which Allah has given you]."

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Abu al-Rabi' said: In what Nafi' asked Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) it is reported: "Regarding the word of Allah the Mighty and Majestic: On the day when this earth shall be changed into a different earth, and the heavens [into other heavens] (Ibrahim/48), tell me: on that day, which earth and which heaven will be transformed?" Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said: "With a piece of white bread from which they will eat until Allah is finished with the reckoning of creatures." Nafi' said: "Will they refrain from eating?" Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said: "Will they be more occupied on that day, or when they are in the Fire?" Nafi' said: "When they are in the Fire." He said: "Allah has said: وَ نَادَی أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ أَصْحَابَ الجَنَّةِ أَنْ أَفِیضُواْ عَلَیْنَا مِنَ المَاء أَوْ مِمَّا رَزَقَکُمُ اللهُ [And the inmates of the Fire shall call out to the dwellers of the Garden: Pour on us some water or of that which Allah has given you]. They will not stop thinking of eating and drinking, for they will ask for food and be given the food of zaqqum, and they will ask for drink and be given boiling water (hamim) to drink." Then he said: "O son of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family), you have spoken the truth."

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Indeed the people of the Fire die thirsty, enter their graves thirsty, are gathered thirsty, and enter Hell thirsty. Then their relatives in Paradise are shown to them, and they say to them: أَفِیضُوا عَلَیْنا مِنَ الْماءِ أَوْ مِمَّا رَزَقَکُمُ اللهُ [Pour on us some water or of that which Allah has given you].

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): The Day of Tanad — that is, the day when the people of the Fire call out to the people of Paradise, asking them to give them some of the water or of the sustenance that Allah has given them.

Imam Sajjad (peace be upon him): As Allah the Mighty and Majestic says in His noble Book: وَ نَادَی أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ أَصْحَابَ الجَنَّةِ أَنْ أَفِیضُواْ عَلَیْنَا مِنَ المَاء أَوْ مِمَّا رَزَقَکُمُ اللهُ [And the inmates of the Fire shall call out to the dwellers of the Garden: Pour on us some water or of that which Allah has given you]. They are given no reply for forty years, and then they answer them with the tongue of scorn and belittlement: إِنَّ اللهَ حَرَّمَهُمَا عَلَی الْکَافِرِینَ [Surely Allah has prohibited them both to the unbelievers].