❖ Question: Did the Earth Consume the Noble Prophet’s ﷺ Excreta?
📚 Source: Fatāwā Amaanpuri by Shaykh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amaanpuri
❖ The Question:
Is it true that the earth would consume the excreta of the Noble Prophet ﷺ?
❖ The Answer:
There is no authentic evidence to support this claim.
❖ Fabricated Narration Attributed to Sayyidah ‘Ā’ishah رضي الله عنها:
“Whenever the Prophet ﷺ went to relieve himself, I would later enter the place, but I would see nothing (no traces of urine or stool), except that I would smell fragrance. I mentioned this to the Prophet ﷺ. He said: ‘ʿĀ’ishah, do you not know? Our (the Prophets’) bodies are nourished by the souls of Paradise. Whatever comes out from our bodies is swallowed by the earth.’”
📚 Source: Dalā’il al-Nubuwwah by al-Bayhaqī: 6/70
⚠ Status of the Narration: Fabricated
◉ Ḥusayn bin ʿAlwān is a liar (kadhdhāb).
◉ Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī himself declared this narration as mawḍūʿ (fabricated).
❖ Other Fabricated Chains:
This narration appears through multiple fabricated chains in different sources:
① Ṭabaqāt Ibn Saʿd (1/135)
② Dalā’il al-Nubuwwah by Abū Nuʿaym (p. 364)
③ Al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ by Ṭabarānī (ḥadīth no. 7835)
Status: Fabricated
◉ ʿAnbasah bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī — abandoned and a liar (matrūk wa kadhdhāb)
◉ Muḥammad bin Zādhān al-Madanī — abandoned (matrūk)
❖ Chain Mentioned in Al-Khaṣā’iṣ al-Kubrā by al-Suyūṭī (1/121):
In the narration reported by Imām Abū Nuʿaym al-Aṣbahānī, the following weak narrators appear:
◉ ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Khazzāz — unreliable (ghayr thiqah wa ghayr muʿtabar)
◉ Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Madanī — unknown (majhūl)
📌 Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr also graded this hadith as weak.
(Al-Istīʿāb: 4080)
❖ Narration in Al-Mustadrak by al-Ḥākim (ḥadīth no. 6950):
Severely weak
◉ Manhāl bin ʿUbayd Allāh — no reliable biographical data
◉ The teacher of Manhāl — ambiguous and unknown
❖ Narration in Al-ʿIlal al-Mutanāhiyah by Ibn al-Jawzī (1/182):
Quoted from Al-Afrād by al-Dāraquṭnī
Status: Severely Weak
◉ Muḥammad bin Ḥassān al-Umawī — no authentication found
📌 Ḥāfiẓ Ibn al-Jawzī explicitly declares this narration as weak and unauthentic.
❖ Related Narration Attributed to Ibn ʿAbbās رضي الله عنهما:
“The excreta of the Prophet ﷺ would be consumed by the earth.”
📚 Source: Imtāʿ al-Asmāʿ by al-Maqrīzī: 5/302
Status: Fabricated
◉ Muḥammad bin Sāʾib al-Kalbī — abandoned and a liar (matrūk, kadhdhāb)
◉ Abū Ṣāliḥ Bādhām — weak and confused (ḍaʿīf, mukhṭaliṭ)
◉ There is no established hearing (samāʿ) between Abū Ṣāliḥ and Ibn ʿAbbās رضي الله عنهما
❖ Another Narration Attributed to Jābir bin ʿAbd Allāh رضي الله عنه:
📚 Source: Narrated by al-Khaṭīb from Ruwāt Mālik, quoted in Al-Ziyādāt ʿalā al-Mawḍūʿāt by al-Suyūṭī: p. 250
Status: Severely Weak
◉ ʿAbd Allāh bin Layth al-Istrābādhī — no verification found
◉ Isḥāq bin Ṣalaṭ — unreliable, unauthenticated
❖ Statement of Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī رحمه الله:
“Isḥāq bin Ṣalaṭ narrated from Imām Mālik a severely objectionable narration. The chain is extremely obscure ( مظلم ).”
📚 Source: Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl: 1/192
❖ Conclusion:
There is no authentic or reliable narration proving that the earth would consume the excreta of the Prophet ﷺ.
All such narrations are either:
- Fabricated (موضوع)
- Severely weak (سند میں سخت ضعف)
- Or include liars, abandoned, or unknown narrators.
Therefore, this belief has no basis in authentic Islamic tradition.
وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ بِالصَّوَابِ
