إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا
Except scalding/boiling water and [foul] pus or intensely cold water
HAMEEM is a drink that has reached its maximum temperature and point of boiling.
HAMEEM interestingly has two meanings. 1) It is a boiling burning drink 2) A very close friend. So what is the connection between a burning drink and a friend?
This boiling burning drink will be given to the disbelievers so often it will be like their companion/ friend.
GASSAAQA is pus, sweat, tears, and wounds of the people of Hellfire. It is unbearably cold with an intolerable stench. Ibn Abbaas said GASSAAQA is a special drink in hellfire which is extremely cold. A drink so cold that it will burn them and will destroy them from the inside. It was also stated by Mujaahid and Muqaatil that it is the peak of coldness.
ZAMHAREER
Yes! In Hell there is a place which is extremely cold.
As was narrated by ‘Uthmaan ad Daarimee and others, the Hadeeth of Daraaj, on the authority of Abu Haytham that Abu Hurayrah narrated to him that the Prophet- صلى الله عليه وسلم – said:
If a man says on a hot day; ‘There is no deity worthy of worship in truth but Allaah, how hot it is today! O Allaah! Save me from the heat of Jahannam [the Hell fire].’
Allaah would say to Jahannam; “Indeed a servant of Mine has asked Me for salvation from your heat, indeed I hold you as a witness that I have granted him salvation.”
And if a servant says on an extremely cold day; ‘There is no deity worthy of worship in truth but Allaah, how cold it is today! O Allaah! Save me from the Zamhareer of Jahannam.’
Allaah would say to Jahannam; “Indeed a servant of Mine has sought refuge with me from your Zamhareer, indeed I hold you as a witness that I have granted him refuge.”
The companions asked: “What is the Zamhareer of Jahannam? He replied: “It is an abode where the disbeliever is thrown, he would be torn apart by its extreme cold.” [1] The Hadeeth was declared as inauthentic by al Albaanee – As-Silsilah ad-Da’eefah #6428.
Al ‘Aynee stated: There is nothing to prevent Zamhareer from emitting from the same Hell fire, because what is meant by ‘the Hell fire’ is its place, which is Jahannam, and there is a level of Zamhareer in it.
It was said that there is no contradiction here in combining between heat and cold in the Hell fire, because the Hell fire is Jahannam, and it has been narrated that parts of it are fire and other parts are Zamhareer, and they are not in the same place, it is impossible that they are combined in one place.
I say [Al ‘Aynee]: The One who created the dominion including ice and fire, is able to combine two opposites in one place. In addition, the Hell fire is from the affairs of the unseen, and the affairs of the unseen are not to be compared to the affairs of this world.
[‘Umdat al Qaaree: 7350]
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