سلسله احاديث صحيحه
Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah
المرض والجنائز والقبورBook of Illness, Funerals, and Graves
Punishment of the grave
Hadith 1705
- (يا أيُّها النّاسُ! إن هذه الأمَّةَ تُبتلى في قبورها، فإذا الإنسان دُفنَ فتفرَّق عنه أصحابُه؛ جاءه ملكٌ في يدهِ مِطراقٍ فأقعدَه، قال: ما تقولُ في هذا الرجلِ؟ فإن كان مؤمناً؛ قال: أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأن محمداً عبده ورسوله، فيقولُ: صدقْتَ، ثم يُفتحُ له بابٌ إلى النار فيقول: هذا كان منزلَكَ لو كفرْتَ بربك؛ فأمّا إذ آمنتَ؛ فهذا منزلُكَ؛ فيُفتحُ له باب إلى الجنَّة، فيريدُ أن ينهض إليه، فيقول له: اسكنْ! ويُفسحُ له في قبره.
Sayyiduna Abu Sa‘id Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I attended a funeral with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace be upon him) said: “O people! This ummah (mankind) is tested in their graves. When a person is buried and his companions leave, an angel comes to him, holding an instrument for striking and piercing. He makes the person sit up and asks: ‘What do you say about this man?’ If he is a believer, he replies: ‘I bear witness that Allah alone is the true deity and Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is His servant and Messenger.’ The angel says: ‘You have spoken the truth.’ Then a door to Hell is opened for him, and the angel says: ‘Look, if you had disbelieved in your Lord, this would have been your abode. But now that you have believed, this is your destination.’ Then a door to Paradise is opened for him. Now the person intends to rise (to enter Paradise), but the angel says: ‘Stay!’ Then his grave is made spacious for him. If the buried person is a disbeliever or a hypocrite, the angel asks: ‘What do you say about this man?’ He replies: ‘I do not know. I only said what I heard people say (but now I have no answer in my mind).’ The angel says: ‘You neither understood nor did you read nor did you receive guidance.’ Then a door to Paradise is opened for him, and the angel says: ‘This would have been your destination if you had believed in your Lord. But now that you are a disbeliever, Allah the Exalted has given you this abode instead.’ Then a door to Hell is opened for him, and the angel strikes him on the head with that instrument (with such force) that everyone except jinn and mankind hears its sound. Upon hearing this hadith, some people said: O Messenger of Allah! Whoever sees that instrument in the angel’s hand will become unconscious (out of terror)? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recited this verse in reply: «يُثَبِّتُ اللَّـهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِالْقَوْلِ الثَّابِتِ» (Surah Ibrahim: 27) Allah keeps firm those who believe, with the firm word.”
