Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 2620]
Description: Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘The Fire whose rage is fierce, its din is high, its flame is glowing, its blaze is stirring up, its exhalation is furious, its extinction is remote, its fuel is blazing, and its threat is fearful.’
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Ghurar al-Hikam. 9995]
Description: Imam al-Sadiq (a.s.) said, relating what Gabriel (a.s.) once said to the Prophet (S), ‘If only one link of the chain whose length is seventy cubits was to be tied down on this world, the world would melt by its heat.’
الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ مِن قَولِ جبرئيلَ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) لِرسولِ اللّهِ (صَلَّيَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) ـ : لو أنَّ حَلْقةً واحِدةً ، من السِّلسِلةِ الّتي طولُها سَبعونَ ذِراعاً ، وُضِعتْ علي الدُّنيا لذابَتِ الدُّنيا مِن حَرِّها.
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Bihar al-Anwar, v. 8, p. 280, no. 1]
Description: Imam al-Sadiq (a.s.) said, relating what Gabriel (a.s.) said to the Prophet (S), ‘If only one garment from among the garments of the people of the Fire was to be hung between the sky and the earth, the people of this world would die of its smell.’
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Amali al-Tusi, p. 533, no. 1162]
Description: Prophet (S) said, ‘If a bucket of the pus [of Hell] was to be poured where the sun rises, the skulls of the people living where it sets would boil.’
رسولُ اللّٰهِِ (صَلَّيَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) : لَو أنَّ دَلْواً صُبَّ من غِسْلينٍ في مَطلَعِ الشّمسِ لَغَلَتْ مِنهُ جَماجِمُ مَن في مَغْرِبِها .
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Bihar al-Anwar, v. 8, p. 280, no. 1]
Description: Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘When the ZaqqUm158 and the cactus will boil in the stomachs of the people of the Fire, like boiling water, they will ask for a drink, and will be given a drink made of pus and festering matter. One will swallow it painfully but will not enjoy it, and death will come to him from all sides though he will not die.’
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Bihar al-Anwar, v. 8, p. 302, no. 58]
Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘The first to enter the Fire will be a domineering ruler who did not maintain justice, a rich man possessing wealth who does not give his due from his wealth, and a poor man who is arrogant.’
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- ‘Uyun Akhbar ar-Ridha, v. 2, p. 28, no. 20]
Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘The people of the Fire to experience the least pain will be wearing slippers of fire, whilst their brains will be boiling due to the [intensity of the] heat of their slippers.
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Kanz al-’Ummal, no. 39507]
Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘The person to experience the greatest pain on the Day of Resurrection will be the scholar who did not benefit from his own knowledge.’
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Kanz al-’Ummal. no. 28977]
Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘The [categories of] people to experience the greatest pain on the Day of Resurrection will be: the man who killed a prophet or was killed by a prophet, the leader of deception, and the sculptor.’
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3217]
Description: Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘The person to experience the greatest pain on the Day of Resurrection will be the one who was dissatisfied with the decree of Allah.’
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3225]
Description: Imam al-Sadiq (a.s.) said, ‘Verily there is a valley in Hell reserved for the arrogant, called Saqar, which complained to Allah, Mighty and Exalted, about its severe heat and asked His permission to breathe. So it breathed, and thus ignited Hell!’
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 310, no. 10]
Description: Imam al-Kazim (a.s.) said, ‘Allah will not retain anybody in the Fire permanently except the people of disbelief, denial, error and polytheism. And whoever shuns the grave sins from among the believers will not be asked about the minor ones.’
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- Kanz al-’Ummal, no. 284]
Description: Imam al-Baqir (a.s.) said, ‘Some people will burn in the Fire, until they are burned to ashes [and become pure] – then they will be taken out through intercession.’
الإمامُ الباقرُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : إنّ قَوماً يُحْرَقونَ في (بـ)النّارِ حتّي إذا صاروا حُمَماً (حَميماً) أدْرَكَتْهُمُ الشَّفاعةُ.
Reference:[From Mizan al Hikmat -- al-Zuhd li al-Husayn b. Sa’id, p. 96, no. 260]