[ViktorialHDY]

Assalamu Alaikum everyone,


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Its in urdu, so i will explain what it says. Its says on top "The being alive of the Prophet Muhammad in grave" and then it quotes a Hadith that says:

Abu Huraira (RA) narrated that the Prophet Muhammad said: If someone sends blessings on me then without a doubt Allah Taala has returned my soul (and my attention is diverted towards the one who sends the blessing), such that i reply to his blessings.

Well, i have very very limited knowledge, may Allah forgive me for my ignorance. But the thing is that i've been led to believe contradictory to what this hadith says. Now, all the references mentioned regarding this hadith are from books other than the six authentic collections except one which says: Abu Dawood Fi Sunan Kitaab al-manasik, ziyarat-al-quboor, 218/2. I don't know arabic neither do i have a copy of Abu Dawood. The ones i could find online were just labelled Kitaab so and so, without the subtopics like "ziyarat-al-quboor" etc. I really need help, if someone could confirm or reject the authenticity of this hadith being present in Abu Dawood, or in any one of the other 5 authentic ahadith collections!

May Allah Taala forgive my and other people's ignorance and show us the right path and make us follow it, ameen.

[Super-Luser]

I don't know about the above hadith. But there is a similar hadith:



تُعرضُ علیّ أعمالُکم فما رأيتُ مِن خيرٍ حمدتُ اﷲَ عليهِ وَ ما رأيتُ مِن شرِّ نِاسْتغفرتُ اﷲَ لکُم.

The Prophet(saw) said : "I am shown your deeds, if they are Good I am grateful to Allah and if they are bad than I pray to Allah for your forgiveness."

(مجمع الزوائد، 9 : 24)

[provigil]

I can vouch for the authenticity of the grave because even a Salafi shaykh who believes that Rasoolullah is not alive in his blessed grave narrated this hadeeth but he used it to show the "other" side, talking about the part that the soul has to return to the body to respond to the salawat and the tasleem being proof that Rasoolullah is NOT alive in his grave.

[Fdhwzctl]

Salam,

I think it would be a very high level torture for someone to be alive at least for 1400 years in their grave. My idea is that we all go back to dust after burial, when the horn is blown.... indeed God will be able to gather our bones, even if they are turned to rocks, and thats even with the accuracy of reproducing our fingertips !!

Peace
--------- Student of Allah

[evammaUselp]

Salam,

I think it would be a very high level torture for someone to be alive at least for 1400 years in their grave. My idea is that we all go back to dust after burial, when the horn is blown.... indeed God will be able to gather our bones, even if they are turned to rocks, and thats even with the accuracy of reproducing our fingertips !!

Peace
--------- Student of Allah

Please get some knowledge before you tell us what you think. The Qur'an says that the shuhada are alive in their graves. Are they also being tortured? There is also a hadeeth which states that the bodies of the prophets عليهم السلام is haraam for the earth to consume so their bodies are completely preserved.

[KasaBalak]

The hadith is well-known and for centuries people hold the belief that Prophets (Alayhismus salam) are alive in their graves.
They can be deemed 'alive' because Allah says so for the shuhada.
Allah also gives back the soul to a dead-one when a living person he knows visits him so that he answers back his salam (hadith reported by Ibn Abd-il Barr).

So in short Prophets' lives are different from the life of this world and also different from the life of lay people.

Read Shaykh Manzur An-Nu'mani ()'s book Mas'ala-e-hayat un-nabi ki haqiqat.