the world and everything in it were yours, would you ransom yourself with it? He will say: Yes. It will be said to him: You have lied. I asked of you something much easier than this while you were in the loins—or in another narration: the back—of Adam, that you do not associate anything with Me, and I would not enter you into the Fire, but you insisted on associating others with Me, so he will be commanded to the Fire. Narrated by al-Bukhārī (2/333 and 4/239, 242) and Muslim (8/134, 135) and Aḥmad (3/127, 129), as well as Abū ʿAwānah and Ibn Ḥibbān in their Ṣaḥīḥ collections, as mentioned in "al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr" (3/95/1) through the route of Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī—this wording is from Muslim—and Qatādah, both from Anas from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). There is a third route: from Thābit from Anas with a similar narration. The ḥadīth was attributed by al-Ḥāfiẓ in "al-Fatḥ" (6/349) to Muslim and al-Nasāʾī, but I did not see it in Muslim. As for al-Nasāʾī, it appears he means "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" by him, and Allāh knows best. His saying: (He will say: You have lied) al-Nawawī said: "Its meaning is that if you were returned to the world, you would not ransom yourself because you were asked for something much easier than that, and you refused, which aligns with the meaning of Allāh's saying: (But if they were returned, they would certainly revert to what they were forbidden, and indeed, they are liars) (Sūrah al-Anʿām, verse 28), and with this..