Dars e Imam-Dead Hearing
“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem””Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)
Quran states: Lo! those who ward off (evil), when a glamour from the devil troubleth them, they do but remember (Allah’s Guidance) and behold them seers! (Quran 7/201). Undoubtedly, those who fear Allah, when a thought of Satan touches them, become careful, at the same timetheir eyes are opened.
Imam Ibn Kathir narrates
under this ayah: A young boy used to do
(a lot) of worship in Masjid, however one woman fell in love with him and she
started to attract him towards herself until one day he got persuaded
and came to her house, but he recalled this ayah: { Lo! those who ward off
(evil), when a glamour from the devil troubleth them, they do but remember (Allah’s
Guidance) and behold them seers}, he
fainted right over there, when he recovered he remembered the ayah again and
fainted once again but this time he passed away. After his death
Sayyidna Umar (ra) met his father being saddened at his death, (the boy) was
buried during night, Umar (ra) took his
companions along and visited his grave, he prayed there and “Called the Boy”
saying: Whosoever feared to stand in front of his Lord then there are 2 gardens
for him! Voice came from the grave O (YA) Omar (ra) Allah has granted me both
the gardens [Tafsir Ibn Kathir,Under 7:201]
“The Messenger of Allah spoke to the People (buried) in the Well saying:
“Have you found out that what your Lord had promised you is true?”
then someone exclaimed: “Are you calling out to the dead!” The
Prophet replied: “You do not hear
better than they do, except they do not respond.” (Sahih Bukhari,
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 452)
Allah’s Messenger ﷺ let the
dead bodies of the unbelievers who fought in Badr (lie unburied) for three
days. He then came to them and sat by their side and called them and said: O
Abu Jahl b. Hisham, O Umayya b. Khalaf, O Utba b. Rab’ila, O Shaiba b. Rabi’a,
have you not found what your Lord had promised with you to be correct? As for
me, I have found the promises of my Lord to be (perfectly) correct. Umar
listened to the words of Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) and said: Allah’s
Messenger, how do they listen and respond to you? They are dead and their
bodies have decayed. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, what I am
saying to them, even you cannot hear more distinctly than they, but they lack
the power to reply. Then’he commanded that they should be buried in the well of
Badr.[Sahih Muslim, Hadith # 6869]
Note: Here the Prophet ﷺ said , even you cannot hear more distinctly than they , Hence it
proves that even Kafirs who are Dead
can hear more clearly then alive can or equally let alone be Muslims and
Prophets (aleh islam).But Kafirs cannot reply back according to this hadith,
Where as muslims have the ability to reply as proved above and will be proved
further.
Narrated Ibn Shihab:These were the battles of Allah’s Apostle
(which he fought), and while mentioning (the Badr battle) he said, “While
the corpses of the pagans were being thrown into the well, Allah’s Apostle said
(to them), ‘Have you found what your Lord promised true?” ‘Abdullah said,
“Some of the Prophet’s companions said, “O Allah’s Apostle! You are
addressing dead people.’ Allah’s Apostle replied, ‘You do not hear what I am
saying, better than they.'[Sahih Bukhari, Book 59, Number 360]
Allah has declared it
forbidden for the earth to eat the bodies of the prophets. So the prophets are
living and they receive their sustenance(Ibn Majah narrated this sahih (sound)
hadith in his Sunan, b. of jana’iz (funerals) ch.65 (1:524#1636-7), b. of
iqamat-us-salat was-sunnah fiha (establishing prayer and its sunnahs) ch.79
(1:345#1085)
Abu Dawud, Sunan, b. of salat (prayer) 1:275 (#1047); Nasa’i, Sunan, b. of
jumu’ah (Friday prayer) 3:92;
Narrated Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri : Allah’s Apostle said, “When the funeral is ready (for its burial) and the people lift it on their shoulders, then if deceased is a righteous person he says, ‘Take me ahead,’ and if he is not a righteous one then he says, ‘Woe to it (me)! Where are you taking it (me)?’ And his voice is audible to everything except human beings; and if they heard it they would fall down unconscious.”(Sahih Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 23, Number 462
This shows that the Dead
can not only hear us, but they are also aware of what is happening in this
world. And their voice is audible to everything except human beings.
The Prophet ﷺ said
:”My life is a great good for you, you will relate about me and it will be
related to you, and my death is a great
good for you, your actions will be presented to me (in my grave) and if I see
goodness I will praise Allah, and if see other than that I will ask forgiveness
of him (for you).”Qadi `Iyad cites it in “al-Shifa” (1:56
of the Amman edition) , Suyuti said in his “Manahil al-safa fi takhrij
ahadith al-shifa” (Beirut 1988/1408) p. 31 (#8): “Ibn Abi Usama cites
it in his Musnad from the hadith of Bakr ibn `Abd Allah al-Mazni, al-Bazzar
from the hadith of Ibn Mas`ud with a sound (sahih) chain.It is cited in Subki’s
Shifa’ al-siqâm fi ziyarat khayr al-anâm[The Healing of the Sick Concerning the
Visit of the Best of Creation], where he mentions that Bakr ibn Abd Allah
al-Mazini reported it, and Ibn al-Jawzi mentions it through Bakr and then again
through Anas ibn Malik in the penultimate chapter of the penultimate section of
al-Wafa, both huffaz without giving the isnad.
Ibn al-Jawzi statement on hadith -However, Ibn al-Jawzi specifies in the introduction of al-Wafa that he only included sound traditions in his book.He also mentions the version through Aws ibn Aws: “The actions of human beings are shown to me every Thursday on the night of (i.e. preceding) Friday.” Fath al-Bâri 10:415, al-Mundhiri’s Targheeb wa al-Tarheeb 3:343, and Ahmad 4:484
The Prophet ﷺ Said “Whoever invokes
blessings on me at my grave, I hear him, and whoever invokes blessings on me
from afar, I am informed about it Ibn Hajar says in FatH al-Bâri 6:379: Abu
al-Shaykh cites it with a good chain (sanad jayyid), Bayhaqi mentions it in
Hayât al-anbiyâ with “ublightuhu” in the end
Sayyindina lbn Abbas narrated that Allah’s Messenger — passed by some graves of
Madinah. He turned his face towards them, and said: Peace be on you, O people
of the grave![ السَّلَامُ
عَلَيْكُمْ يَا أَهْلَ الْقُبُورِ] May Allah forgive us and you. You have gone
before us and we are to follow.[Sunan tirmidhi Chapter 59 Hadith # 1055]
People of qiblah =those who believe in essentials of deen.
Bidah =those who doesnot follow ahle sunnat wal jamaat.
When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)
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