Part 52

In the chapter wherein we relate the description of Paradise, we will mention this hadith with its different chains and with other narrations that attest to it. And we seek help from Allah #é.

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The Bodies Of The Prophets Do Not Decompose In The Earth

Umaamah ibn Al-Mundhir 4 reported that the Messenger of Allah #& said, “The chief of the days is Friday. It is the most superior with Allah, more superior with Allah than the day of Al-Fitr and the day of Al-Adhaa. It has in it five qualities: during it, Allah created Adam; during it Allah made Adam die; during it is an hour, in which no slave asks anything from Allah, except that Allah gives it to him - as long as he does not ask for something Haram; and on it, the Hour will arrive. Every Mugarrib (chosen and close) angel, every heaven, every earth, every mountain, and every sea Yushfiqu (fears) Friday (Le, fears that on the Friday before them, the Hour will arrive).” (Ahmad) Ibn Maajah related it as well, The following is a narration that Ibn ‘Umar 4% ascribed to the Prophet i: “The Hour will arrive at the Fajr Aadhaan, on Friday.” At-Tabaraanee related this narration. In AtTadhkirah, Abu ‘Abdullah Al-Qurtubee related that it is on a Friday, halfway through Ramadan. But this requires some proof.

Al-Hasan said, “There are two days and two nights that the creation have not seen the like thereof: the first night one spends with the inhabitants of the grave; the night, which is followed by the morning during which the Hour will arrive; the day that the bearer of news will come to you - either with tidings of the Paradise or Hellfire; and the day that you are given your book, either in your right (hand) or in your left (hand).” Abu Bakr Ibn Abu Ad-Dunyaa reported this saying. It is related from many other eminent ones that they would give great significance to the night which is followed by the morning during which the Hour arrives.

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Humaid said, “During a day from Rajab, as Al-Hasan was in the Masjid, he had a Qaleelah in his hand. He sucked out its water and then spit it out. Then he breathed heavily and cried, so much so that he made his cushion shake. He said, ‘Would that hearts had life to them! Would that hearts were in a healthy state! O, woe to you from a night, whose following morning is the Day of Resurrection! The creation has never heard of a day when private areas will be more exposed and when eyes will shed more tears than the Day of Resurrection.” Ibn Abu Ad-Dunyaa related this narration.

On The Day Of Resurrection, The First For Whom The Earth Will Split Open Is The Messenger Of Allah 2

Abu Hurairah 2s reported that the Messenger of Allah 2 said, “Iam the chief of the children of Adam on the Day of Resurrection and the first for whom the earth will split open. I am the first to intercede and the first whose intercession will be accepted.” (Muslim)

Abu Sa’eed reported that the Messenger of Allah 2 said, “I am the chief of the children of Adam on the Day of Resurrection, and no Fakhr (no pride or haughtiness because of that). And I am the first for whom the earth will split open, and no Fakhr.” Hasheem related this narration.

Abu Hurairah # reported that the Messenger of Allah 2% said, “The horn will be blown, and those in the heavens and the earth will swoon away, except for those whom Allah 8 exempts. Then it will be blown another time, and I will be the first to be resurrected, (and I will see) Moosa holding on to (a part of) the Throne. And I will not know, was he recompensed for when he swooned away on the Day of Toor (when he #% swooned away after Allah 3 revealed Himself to the mountain) or was he resurrected before me.” (Related by Abu Bakr ibn Abu Ad-Dunyaa)

There is a narration in As-sahih that is similar to this in wording. The hadith is in sahih Muslim: “I am the first for whom the earth will split open, and I will find Moosa, strongly holding on to the Qaaimah (foot or post) of the Throne. I do not know — did he get up before me? Or was he rewarded for when he swooned away at AtToor.” Here, one hadith is intermingled with another, for there seems to be no explanation for the reiteration, especially considering

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his saying, “Or was he rewarded for when he swooned away at AtToor (i.e. this saying apparently does not correspond in the given context with “Did he get up before me?”).”

Sa’eed Ibn Al-Musayyib said, “There was a dispute between Abu Bakr # and a Jew. The Jew said, ‘By the One Who has chosen Moosa over all of mankind.’ Abu Bakr .4 slapped him. The Jew went to the Messenger of Allah #, who said, ‘O Jew! | am the first for whom the earth will split open, and I will find Moosa clinging to the Throne. And I will not know — was he before me? Or was he rewarded for his swooning away?” Abu Bakr Ibn Abee Ad-Dunyaa related this narration, and through the particular chain of his narration, it is Mursal. But it is also related through different chains and with different wordings in sahih Al-Bukhaaree and sahih Muslin. In some of those narrations, it is not Abu Bakr .& who is speaking to the Jew, but rather it is a man from the Ansaar. And Allah # knows best.

And from the best phrasings of the hadith is this one: “On the Day of Resurrection, people will swoon away, and I will be the first to (get up after) swooning away, and I will find Moosa strongly holding on to a Qaaimah (foot or pole) from the Qaaimahs of the Throne. And I will not know — did he swoon away and then get up before me? Or was he rewarded for when he swooned away at AtToor (i.e., rewarded by not having to swoon away a second time)?”

As we will further clarify later on, this swooning away or passing out will occur on the ‘Arasaat (vast plane) of the Resurrection, so it is different from the swooning away that is mentioned in the Quran. People will swoon away on the Day of Resurrection when Allah & reveals Himself (i.e. His Shin) to them, which will occur when He 8% comes to render judgments. People will pass out just as Moosa S2é) passed out on the Day of At-Toor. And Allah a knows best.

Al-Hasan 4 reported that the Messenger of Allah #8 said, “It is as if Isee myself, shaking the dirt off my head. I will turn around and not see anyone except for Moosa, who will be clinging to the Throne. I will not know whether he is from those whom Allah exempted from being afflicted by the blow (of the horn) or whether he was resurrected before me.” (Related by Abu Bakr ibn Abee Ad-Dunyaa) This narration is Mursal also, but it is even weaker than the other one.

‘Abdullah ibn Salaam 4 reported that the Messenger of Allah 2%

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said, “I am the chief of the children of Adam on the Day of Resurrection, and no Fakir (no pride or haughtiness), and I am the first for whom the earth will split open. I am the first to intercede and the first whose intercession will be accepted. In my hand will be the banner of Al-Hamd, (ander which will be) even Adam and those below him.” (Related by Al-Haafiz Abu Bakr Al-Baihaqee) They (i.e. the other compilers of the Sunnah) did not relate this, though its chain is okay.

Ibn ‘Umar # reported that the Messenger of Allah $ said, “I am the first for whom the earth will split open; then Abu Bakr; then ‘Umar. Then I will go the people of Al-Baqee’ (famous graveyard in AlMadeenah), and they will be gathered with me. Then | will wait for the people of Makkah, and they will be gathered with me. The gathering with me, then, will be between Al-Haramain (i.e. between Makkah and Al-Madeenah).” (Related by Abu Bakr ibn Abu AdDunyaa)

Ibn ‘Umar 4 said, “The Messenger of Allah 2% entered the Masjid; Abu Bakr was on his right and ‘Umar was on his left, and he was leaning on both of them. He #% then said, ‘This is how we will be taised on the Day of Resurrection.” (Related by Abu Bakr Ibn Abu Ad-Dunyaa)