Chapter: The Disbeliever Seeking Ransom With An Earthful Of Gold
Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and High, would say to one who shall have to undergo the least torture (on the Day of Resurrection): Would you like to go as ransom if you had all worldly riches; he would say: Yes. Allah would say to him: When you were in the loins of Adam, I demanded from you something easier than this that you should not associate anything with Me. (The narrator says): I think He also said: I would not cause you to enter Hell-Fire but you defied and attributed Divinity (to others besides Me).
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Anas b. Malik through another chain of transmitters, but with a slight variation of wording (and the words are): I shall cause him to enter Hell. (The words subsequent to these) have not been mentioned.
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be u n him) said: It would be said to the non-believers on the Day of Resurrection: If you were to possess gold, filling the whole earth, would you like to secure your freedom by paying that? He would say: Yes. Thereupon it would be said to him: Something easier (than this) was demanded from you (but you paid no heed to it).
Anas reported this hadlth through another chain of transmitters and the words are: It would be said to him: You have told a lie; what had been demanded from you was quite easier than this (the belief in the Oneness of Allah).