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Salaam alaikum,
Can you please tell me if the hadith below is accurate (ie did Muhammad say this)?
'Abdullah bin 'Amr bin Al-'As narrated that the Messenger of Allah said:
"If a pellet like this one, and he pointed to one like Al-jumjumah were to be dropped from the heavens to the earth – and it is the distance of traveling five hundred years it would reach the earth before the night-fall. But if it were dropped from the top of the chain it would travel for forty years, day and night, before it would reach its foundation or bottom.” (Hasan)
English reference : Vol. 4, Book 13, Hadith 2588
Arabic reference : Book 39, Hadith 2791
http://sunnah.com/urn/678930

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