Sahih Muslim 7174
صحيح مسلم#7174Sahihحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَوْنٍ الْهِلاَلِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سُفْيَانَ، - يَعْنِي مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ حُمَيْدٍ - عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " احْتَجَّتِ الْجَنَّةُ وَالنَّارُ " . وَاقْتَصَّ الْحَدِيثَ بِمَعْنَى حَدِيثِ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ .
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying:The Paradise and the Hell disputed with each other. The rest of the hadith is the same
Scholarly Authentication
The label above is the grade most of these scholars gave — one dissenting opinion no longer speaks for all of them. If any scholar calls a narration fabricated, that verdict is shown instead, whatever the others say. Each scholar's own wording:
Every narration in Sahih Muslim is accepted as Sahih (authentic) by the established status of the book.
In-book reference: 53:43