Then we sped off until we reached the seventh heaven and I was brought before Abraham. (The Prophet, peace and blessings on him, related in the
hadith that) he saw four rivers flowing from beneath its trunk [i.e., the trunk
of the lote tree],”” two manifest rivers and two hidden rivers. I said to Jibril:
“What rivers are these, Jibril?”” He said: The two hidden rivers are two
rivers of paradise. The two manifest rivers are the Nile and the Euphrates.
Then he was taken up to the house of life (a/-bayt al/-ma‘mitr). I said: “Jibril, what is this?” He said: “This is the house of life. Every day seventy thousand angels enter it. When they go out from it they never return.”
I was then brought two vessels, one of wine and the other of milk. They were shown to me and I chose the milk. I was told: ‘You have chosen well. Allah will choose your community through you, according to the innate disposition (fitra).” Then fifty prayers per day were given as a require- ment to the community. And he conunued relating the story until the end of the hadith.