Brewer's: Al-Sirat

(Arabian, the path) The bridge over hell, no wider than the edge of a sword, across which every one who enters heaven must pass. (Mahometan theology.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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