What is the meaning of the phrase (the increase of the liver of the Noun) in the hadith found in the abridged version of Sahih Muslim?
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The questioner : The hadith with number such-and-such from the abridged version of the Sahih, what is their story regarding what they enter Paradise with? He said, "The increase of the liver of the Noun." What is the meaning of the phrase "the increase of the liver of the Noun"?
The Shaykh : The Noun referred to here is the whale in the great sea. And "the increase of the liver of the Noun"—and "liver" is also known as the edge, as the scholars of hadith say. "The increase of the liver of the Noun" means the edge. They say that the most delicious and best part of the whale is the edge. And the meaning of this hadith, of course, and although the student is asking, is that there is a very great whale. Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic... because He feeds them from the liver, not from the whale, from the liver of the whale, and not from the liver itself, but from the increase, the edges of this liver. So what is the status of this whale? Allah is the Greatest. Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, who created the heavens and the earth, and He says and He made for the people of the covenant from the kingdom. Along with the most beloved person in Paradise in rank, who has not yet emerged from the Fire after becoming black embers, and enters Paradise crawling toward it. It is said that he enters Paradise and has in it like the world and ten times its width. How vast is the expanse of this universe and what the Lord of the Worlds will possess? So do not be surprised that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will have the people of Paradise eat, as the first thing they eat, from the edge of the liver of the whale.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : When they enter Paradise, it is like this.
The Shaykh : The Noun referred to here is the whale in the great sea. And "the increase of the liver of the Noun"—and "liver" is also known as the edge, as the scholars of hadith say. "The increase of the liver of the Noun" means the edge. They say that the most delicious and best part of the whale is the edge. And the meaning of this hadith, of course, and although the student is asking, is that there is a very great whale. Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic... because He feeds them from the liver, not from the whale, from the liver of the whale, and not from the liver itself, but from the increase, the edges of this liver. So what is the status of this whale? Allah is the Greatest. Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, who created the heavens and the earth, and He says
And We are indeed expanding it
وإنا لموسعونThe questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : When they enter Paradise, it is like this.