The Bridge Thinner Than a Hair: How Islamic Sirat Performs the Zoroastrian Chinvat at the Threshold of the Afterlife
The Hadith Architecture of the Day-of-Judgment Bridge and Its Avestan Original eFireTemple "Then the bridge will be brought and laid across Hell. We said: O Messenger of Allāh, what is the bridge? He said: A slippery thing on which there are clamps and hooks like the thorns of as-Saʻdān. The believers will pass over it… some like the blink of an eye, some like lightning, some like the wind, some like swift horses, some like riders.
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The Hadith Architecture of the Day-of-Judgment Bridge and Its Avestan Original eFireTemple "Then the bridge will be brought and laid across Hell. We said: O Messenger of Allāh, what is the bridge? He said: A slippery thing on which there are clamps and hooks like the thorns of as-Saʻdān. The believers will pass over it… some like the blink of an eye, some like lightning, some like the wind, some like swift horses, some like riders. So some will be saved unharmed, some will be scratched and then released, and some will be thrown into the Fire of Hell." — Sahih al-Bukhārī 7437; Sahih Muslim 183 — the canonical hadith of the Bridge "At the dawn of the fourth day after death, the soul comes to the Chinvat Bridge — the Bridge of the Separator.
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Yasna · Avesta · Vendidad · Quran · Bundahishn