Sahih Muslim 2852
صحيح مسلم#2852Sahihحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ، وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْوَكِيعِيُّ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ فُضَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، يَرْفَعُهُ قَالَ " مَا بَيْنَ مَنْكِبَىِ الْكَافِرِ فِي النَّارِ مَسِيرَةُ ثَلاَثَةِ أَيَّامٍ لِلرَّاكِبِ الْمُسْرِعِ " . وَلَمْ يَذْكُرِ الْوَكِيعِيُّ " فِي النَّارِ " .
Abu Huraira reported directly from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) that he said:The distance of the two shoulders of the non-believer in Hell will be a three-day journey for a swift rider
Scholarly Authentication
The label above is the grade most of these scholars gave, each scholar counted once — 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. When they judged only its chain of narrators (“Isnaad”), the label says “Sound chain”. Each scholar's own wording:
Every narration in Sahih Muslim is accepted as Sahih (authentic) by the established status of the book.
Sahih Muslim 2852 is the standard (Abd al-Baqi) number; this narration is #7186 in the MuslimGPT index.
In-book reference: 53:55