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],²⁹ 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 (al-bayt al-maʿmūr). 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.”³⁰
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 requirement to the community. And he continued relating the story until the end of the hadith.