Author: Abu Ayesha
Resurrection After Death (part 7)
Resurrection from the Perspective of Hadiths (Continued)
6. قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الخَطَّابِ رَضِيَاللَّهُعَنْهُ: كُنَّا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّىاللَّهُعَلَيْهِوَسَلَّمَ، فَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ شَدِيدُ بَيَاضِ الثِّيَابِ شَدِيدُ سَوَادِ الشَّعَرِ، لاَ يُرَى عَلَيْهِ أَثَرُ السَّفَرِ وَلاَ يَعْرِفُهُ مِنَّا أَحَدٌ حَتَّى أَتَى النَّبِيَّ صَلَّىاللَّهُعَلَيْهِوَسَلَّمَ فَأَلْزَقَ رُكْبَتَهُ بِرُكْبَتِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَا الإِيمَانُ؟ قَالَ: أَنْ تُؤْمِنَ بِاللَّهِ وَمَلاَئِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَاليَوْمِ الآخِرِ، وَالقَدَرِ خَيْرِهِ وَشَرِّهِ. Translation: Umar ibn al-Khattab (MABH) said: We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) when a man appeared whose clothes were extremely white and whose hair was very black. No signs of travel were seen on him, and none of us recognized him. He came and sat close to the Prophet (PBUH), placing his knees against his knees, and said: O Muhammad, what is faith? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: That you believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and that you believe in divine decree, its good and its evil.[1]
This clearly indicates belief in events that will occur after death and serves as firm evidence for resurrection after death.
7. عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَاللَّهُعَنْهُ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّىاللَّهُعَلَيْهِوَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: إِنِّي أَوَّلُ مَنْ يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ بَعْدَ النَّفْخَةِ الآخِرَةِ، فَإِذَا أَنَا بِمُوسَى مُتَعَلِّقٌ بِالعَرْشِ، فَلاَ أَدْرِي أَكَذَلِكَ كَانَ أَمْ بَعْدَ النَّفْخَةِ. Translation: It is narrated from Abu Hurairah (MABH) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I will be the first to raise my head after the second blowing of the Trumpet, and suddenly I will see Moses (RA) holding on to the Throne. I do not know whether he awoke before me or was among those whom Allah exempted from the shock.[2]
8. عَنْ أَنَسٍ رَضِيَاللَّهُعَنْهُ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّىاللَّهُعَلَيْهِوَسَلَّمَ: بُعِثْتُ أَنَا وَالسَّاعَةُ كَهَاتَيْنِ. قَالَ وَضَمَّ السَّبَّابَةَ وَالْوُسْطَى.Translation: Anas (MABH) reported that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: My sending and the Hour are like these two. The narrator said: He joined his index finger and middle finger together.[3]
9. عَنْ أَبِي مَالِكٍ: أَنَّ أُبَيَّ بْنَ خَلَفٍ جَاءَ بِعَظْمٍ حَائِلٍ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّىاللَّهُعَلَيْهِوَسَلَّمَ فَفَتَّهُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَيَبْعَثُ اللَّهُ هَذَا بَعْدَ مَا أَرَمَّ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، يَبْعَثُ اللَّهُ هَذَا ثُمَّ يُمِيتُكَ ثُمَّ يُحْيِيكَ ثُمَّ يُدْخِلُكَ نَارَ جَهَنَّمَ. Translation: Abu Malek narrated that Ubayy ibn Khalaf brought a decayed bone to the Messenger of Allah (PBUH), crushed it in front of him, and said: O Muhammad, will Allah resurrect this after it has decayed? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Yes, Allah will resurrect it, then cause you to die, then bring you back to life, and then admit you into the Fire of Hell.[4]
The narrator said: Then the verses at the end of Surah Ya-Sin were revealed: “Does man not see that We created him from a drop, and yet he becomes a clear disputant?”[5]
10. In another narration from Abdullah ibn ʿAbbas (RA), al-ʿAs ibn Waʾil took a bone from the land of Bathaʾ, crushed it with his hand, and brought it to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), saying: Will Allah resurrect this after it has become what you see? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: Yes, Allah will cause you to die, then resurrect you, and then admit you into Hellfire. The narrator said: Then verses from the end of Surah Ya-Sin were revealed.[6]
11. قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّىاللَّهُعَلَيْهِوَسَلَّمَ: لاَ تَزُولُ قَدَمَا عَبْدٍ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ حَتَّى يُسْأَلَ عَنْ أَرْبَعٍ: عَنْ عُمُرِهِ فِيمَا أَفْنَاهُ، وَعَنْ عِلْمِهِ فِيمَ فَعَلَ، وَعَنْ مَالِهِ مِنْ أَيْنَ اكْتَسَبَهُ وَفِيمَ أَنْفَقَهُ، وَعَنْ جِسْمِهِ فِيمَ أَبْلَاهُ. Translation: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: On the Day of Resurrection, the feet of a servant will not move until he is questioned about four things: about his life and how he spent it, about his knowledge and how he acted upon it, about his wealth—how he earned it and how he spent it, and about his body—how he wore it out.[7]
12. قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّىاللَّهُعَلَيْهِوَسَلَّمَ: يُبْعَثُ كُلُّ عَبْدٍ عَلَى مَا مَاتَ عَلَيْهِ. Translation: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Every person will be resurrected upon the state in which he died. [8]
وفي رواية أخرى:إِنَّمَا يُبْعَثُ النَّاسُ عَلَى نِيَّاتِهِمْ Translation: People will be resurrected according to their intentions. [9]
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References:
[1]. Al-Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā. Sunan al-Tirmidhī, vol. 4, p. 302, Chapter: Description of Jibrīl to the Prophet (peace be upon him), Hadith no. 2610. Beirut, Lebanon: Dār al-Fikr.
[2]. Al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, ed. Muḥammad Zuhayr ibn Nāṣir, vol. 6, p. 126, Chapter: “And the Trumpet will be blown and whoever is in the heavens and the earth will fall unconscious…”, Hadith no. 4813.
[3]. Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Nīsābūrī. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, vol. 8, p. 209, Chapter: The Nearness of the Hour, Hadith no. 7597. Beirut: Dār al-Jīl.
[4]. The Holy Qur’an, Sūrah Yā-Sīn (36), verse 77.
[5]. Al-Ḥārith ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī. Bughyat al-Bāḥith ʿan Zawāʾid Musnad al-Ḥārith, ed. Ḥusayn Aḥmad Bākarī, vol. 2, p. 727. Madinah: Markaz Khidmat al-Sīrah al-Nabawiyyah.
[6]. Al-Maqdisī, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid. Al-Aḥādīth al-Mukhtārah (Selected Hadiths Not Recorded by al-Bukhārī and Muslim), ed. Dr. ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Duhaysh, 1st ed., 1420 AH / 2000 CE, vol. 10, pp. 87–88.
[7]. Al-Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā. Sunan al-Tirmidhī, Chapter: On the Day of Resurrection, vol. 4, p. 190, Hadith no. 2417.
[8]. Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Nīsābūrī. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Chapter: Command to Have Good Expectation of Allah at Death, vol. 4, p. 2205, Hadith no. 81, ed. Muḥammad Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Bāqī. Beirut: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī.
[9]. Ibn Mājah al-Qazwīnī, Muḥammad ibn Yazīd. Sunan Ibn Mājah, Chapter: Intention (al-Niyyah), vol. 12, p. 431, Hadith no. 4370, ed. Muḥammad Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Bāqī. Cairo: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Kutub al-ʿArabiyyah.
